On the street! Argentina world champion!
It was the closest thing to an explosion. This little corner of Palermo held its breath and nerves for 120 minutes. He then cried with the penalties, shouted with full force the two saves by Dibu Martínez and went into ecstasy when Gonzalo Montiel holed it under the three sticks. Then the crying came once more.
The feeling that a defeat would be the most unfair thing in the world loaded the relief bomb. It has been the metaphor of an entire country: it caresses triumph, it sinks, it rises once more, it falls once more. He still awaits the final victory, because in the end a country is not a football game.
Little by little, people leave their houses and populate the streets. Soon you will not be able to walk the main avenues, with so much joy. The Obelisk, the epicenter of Buenos Aires celebrations, will explode. The party will last for days.
Photo: Leandro Teysseire