Despite the heat and rain, this is how the passage to the semi-finals was celebrated at Argentina's Mar del Plata "Fan Fest".

 

Despite the heat and rain, this is how the passage to the semi-finals was celebrated at Argentina's Mar del Plata "Fan Fest".

Tourists and people from Mar del Plata flocked to Las Tocas, where three screens were installed to follow the quarter-final match against the Netherlands live.

Despite the heat and rain, this is how the pass to the semi-finals was celebrated at the "Fan Fest".

Tourists and people from Mar del Plata flocked to Las Tocas, where three screens were installed to follow the quarter-final match against the Netherlands live.

In tights, with umbrellas, sarongs, towels, sunscreen and cool drinks, neither the heat nor the surprise rain stopped people from gathering on the Mar del Plata coast to enjoy the best of football.

The afternoon was filled with pure emotion and joy, but also tension and uneasiness. It was, from a goal by Nahuel Molina and another penalty by Lionel Messi, that Argentina won 2-0 against the Netherlands, but in 83 the European team was conceded with both Wout Weghorst and 100 in a game. Prepared, reached the tie, which extends all the suffering of the supplement. Apart from what the national team proposed in extra time and was the clearest, the quarter final was defined in the penalty shootout.

Thus, Argentina was one step away from sealing its passage through the World Cup, but it was precisely in the penultimate round where one shone, none more and none less than Mar del Plata's Debu Martinez, who with two stellar saves gave the Albiceleste the advantage that Was able to achieve his long-awaited 4-3 win.

In some ways, the Mar del Plata man returned all the love sent to him from his native Mar del Plata, where there was no shortage of flags with "we love you" signs even on a small plane. Over the thousands of people in The Toscas.

Thus, the thousands of people who came to the "Fan Fest" in Mar del Plata unleashed all their emotions, hugging, singing and crying to secure a much-needed, essential victory to preserve Argentina's continuity in the tournament. The most important football in the world.

And after enjoying the game from the coast of Mar del Plata, many people decided to take a caravan to the monument of San Martín, which happens before every sporting event, filled with fans who are alone, with family or friends. And friends came out to celebrate the victory that put Argentina through to the semi-finals.

There were hundreds of vehicles gathered around, before a significant police deployment around a good part of the road around the monument, where they came to celebrate from different neighborhoods, joining the thousands who went to Las Toscas.