“December has arrived and the most magical moment is coming. First, agree to see where we meet. The windows are filled with lights, which turn on and off. We decorate houses. We get together with those we love the most and with those we haven’t seen for a long time. We love inside or outside with the Christmas tree, if the night is good. What should I wear? Yes, of course, you have to paint yourself for the occasion. Everyone in their usual place and, when game time arrives, there is no one left on the street. The country stops. Cousins, uncles and brothers all arrived with the illusion of celebrating and there we realize how much we miss those who are no longer here. How much left? We get anxious because the child God is about to arrive. And you? Do you believe or do you not believe? Trust me, it’s a magical moment. So magical that even those who don’t believe link a gift. The boys are excited and the big ones are boys again, because the whole family is waiting for the moment of that hug, that look, that kiss, that illusion, to raise, all together, that Cup and put one more star up there, at the top of our hearts. And you, what did you ask Papa Lionel? Psssssss, silence, it is not said, do not say it. We choose to believe. Signed: AFA (which is not, no, the Argentine Football Association, but Argentine Soccer Lovers)”.
#Qatar2022 December has arrived and a magical month starts ?✨
A month of hugs, affection and togetherness.
a month where we are #All together ? behind the same wish. pic.twitter.com/a3csmCTqEl
— Argentina National Team ?? (@Argentina) December 8, 2022
Argentina is so crazy, so crazy, that shortly before the quarterfinal match against the Netherlands, it launched this announcement so that the almost 48 million Argentines continue dreaming and pushing their team. And dad Lionel, who is none other than ‘Santa Claus’ Messi, because that is the simile that the AFA creative devised for the occasion, once again worked the miracle. He doesn’t have a team for that much, but he’s still there. Neither did the Netherlands have the equipment to scare them and it put fear into their bodies, but they survived, because there was also ‘Hedwig’, the owl from Harry Potter, that Thiago, Mateo and Cio, their three children, hung from the Christmas tree with the legend written on his ball of “the important thing is to never stop dreaming& rdquor ;.
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Messi, of course, not only made use of his magic and the luck that accompanies champions (they say that this Argentina is looking like Spain in 2010, when it started losing in South Africa and ended up champion in style), but with the help of a spectacular Croatia and another great grandfather, Real Madrid player Luka Modric, who eliminated Neymar’s Brazil, also in a penalty shootout, the great favorite of all, including the ‘Flea’, I’m afraid. And Dad Lionel also had two flying ‘supermen’ like his own goalkeeper, Dibu Martínez, prodigious, and the fashionable boy, the Croatian Dominik Livakovic, Dinamo Zagreb goalkeeper, another unknown young man who is already worth 100 million euros .
“Guys, now we are excited again, I want to win the third, I want to be world champion & rdquor ;, sang the 40,000 Argentines who were at the Lusail stadium last night. And, there, in the gallery, don’t miss it, was Muhammad Nibras, a 12-year-old boy from a small village in India, Kerala, who was invited to the game last night by Afi Ahmed, managing director of a Dubai-based travel company, after he was bullied at his school for bitterly mourn Argentina’s defeat against Saudi Arabia and promise their teammates that “Argentina will win all the games and come out as champions.” The video went viral and Muhammad Nibras met his idol last night, because soccer, which seems to have been invented for adults, was designed for children.
Last night what Arrigo Sacchi said was demonstrated again: “Football is the most important of the less important things”
“Football is the most important thing of the least important things”, the great Arrigo Sacchi said one day and last night it was demonstrated twice in two games that, perhaps, yes, they were not a big deal footballingly speaking but they were a hurricane, a tsunami, a volcano of emotions, passions, vibrations, frights, joys, tears and songs. The star announcer of Radio Mitre, the most listened to station in Argentina, Diego Leuco, came to call “thief & rdquor; Mateu Lahoz, the Spanish referee of the Argentina-Netherlands game, for extending the game by 10 minutes. “What is this, Mr. Thief, eternal football? & rdquor ;, they clamored on the queen station of Argentina.
The madness of football allows the Brazilian gods to cry bitterly over their end, their farewell, almost all dyed yellow, losing to a Croatia, which, yes, is runner-up in the world, but equalized with the only shot on goal they took, in the minute 116, curiously the minute of Don Andrés Iniesta in 2010. That same madness is what allowed Van Gaal’s faded Dutch ‘clockwork orange’ to tie and force extra time and even penalties with a goal on the board, a masterfully executed foul , in the 110th minute of the game.
The announcer of Radio Mitre, the most listened to station in Argentina, called Mateu Lahoz a “thief” for extending the game by 10 minutes
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It was of little or no use to Neymar Júnior to score the most beautiful goal of this World Cup. It was of no use to the rich of the rich to tie at 77 goals, the absolute record in the Brazilian team, with ‘O Rei Pelé’. ‘Ney’ will take a private plane today and return to Paris, while two grandparents like Modric and Messi decide who will play in the final on the 18th. Before, without a doubt, the Argentine star, who yesterday also attacked Mateu Lahoz “They can’t put a referee like that for such an important game, he hasn’t been up to the task and, in the end, it seemed like he wanted them to draw,” he will try to keep the best Spanish referee in the fridge, for sure. In addition to attacking Lahoz, Messi also criticized Van Gaal: “He sells that he plays football well and they only hit balls & rdquor ;.
The truth, the reality, what, after the first game and defeat in Doha, seemed (almost) impossible, has come true: Argentina will be there until the last week and even until the last day in Qatar. And maybe someone, who knows, maybe dad Lionel or, perhaps, his son Thiago (“I am enjoying this World Cup more than ever because it is the first time that my children are older and can fully experience it with me & rdquor ;, said the ‘Flea’), invite Muhammad Nibras to stay for another week, who has been given indefinite leave by the Kerala school. The occasion deserves it.