2023-12-18 12:18:22
Greatness is built, but it is also necessary to validate it with titles. The Argentine National Team He began to look with melancholy as the years went by and the frustrations accumulated until he arrived. Lionel Scalonithe leader of a team that won everything: America Cup, Very final y world. Coincidentally, this Monday marks the first anniversary of the consecration in Qatarbut the most particular and crazy celebrations that took place in South America.
The last Olympic round, in the most demanding tournament of all, had been in Mexico 86. Almost a sacrilege for a country as sportingly successful as Argentina, where a generation did not know the feeling of climbing to the top and winning that gold medal that everyone dreams of.
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For that reason, the celebrations were up to the occasion or, perhaps, somewhat more excessive. That December 18, there were endless celebrations, which began with the victory once morest France and they ended -several days later- with a historic caravan of the campus through the streets of Buenos Aires.
The most striking images
A man asks two strangers to lift his son up a crowded glass roof that he doesn’t know if he will be able to climb; two people jump from a bridge into the moving collective of the national team without successfully reaching their premise; Thousands spent hours standing on the highway in the sunshine waiting for the players, although it was already a fact that they were not going to pass by there; Millions of fans went to look for the authors of the Qatar feat and became the protagonists of a historic event: the largest popular mobilization ever recorded in that country.
Statistics indicate that nearly five million people took to the streets to see the champions up close. Since the morning (or actually since the day before), waves of people arrived in downtown Buenos Aires. They first occupied the Obelisk – where the team never went – and as the hours passed they walked in a bewildered crowd.
Some went to Pink House; others, until the intersection with the 25 de Mayo highway, where the people were so many that at times it was impossible to take a step. The aerial images of the highway’s dips and junctions reproduced by television channels showed an endless anthill.
In the middle, euphoria was mixed with recklessness. The combo was lethal: accidents, injuries and several deaths. Without going any further, 365 days later on the network social X (before Twitter), Internet users created a thread with the most curious or remembered celebrations of that unforgettable moment.
In it you can see people hanging at traffic lights; roofs of bus stops that collapsed because they might not support the weight of the people above; some nudist who dared to walk through the streets of the city; several fights and some bodies that suffered bruises or fractures from falls.
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