The fanaticism and passion with which Argentine fans live soccer is well known, but the thousands who came to see the Qatar 2022 World Cup never cease to amaze and make themselves felt to the astonishment of all.
The Argentine phenomenon: why its fans amaze all of Qatar
As never before, and despite the economic context, there is a unique celestial and white invasion. The National Team plays in the World Cup as if it were in the Monumental or the Bombonera...
Is love. There's no other way to define it." Lisandro Martínez, the defender of the National Team, leaves perhaps the best definition for this story. It can be called chemistry, feeling, idyll, but there is something else. There is something that comes from the heart between this team and the people, which is noticeable in every shout, in every song, in every step that is taken through Qatar. Never seen so many Argentine shirts. And it's not an exaggerated description. It is absolute.
Because the usual fans that Argentina takes to each World Cup, the genuine ones, are joined by an amazing number of supporters from other countries who also love Messi. And that is why the soccer venue, the streets, the fields, the 11,571 km2 of Qatari land and desert are dressed in light blue and white. If someone closed their eyes and imagined that the World Cup is being played in our country, they would not be so far from what they see. And it feels...
The final celebration between the players and the fans. There is union (EFE / Juanjo Martín)
But within that popular framework, there is a love relationship, as Lisandro says. Love for the shirt, as always. Love for a Selection that returned the illusion to the people. Love for a team that hung the champion's medal on a generation that didn't know what it was about. Love for a Messi in his best expression. And love, above all, for a group of players who play as fans. "That's what we are too. We are still fans who have the privilege of playing for our country”, says De Paul, one of the flags.
We are local again...
However, this phenomenon goes further. It transcends borders, unites cultures, moves to the field, surprises the world of baseball like never before. Because the stadiums have a framework similar to any qualifying match at the Monumental or the Bombonera. That is what attracts attention. The number of his own, original shirts, but also of others, the product of the admiration of others, has a Messi multiplied with 10 of him, the sheikh of world football.
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