2023-09-13 03:01:00
A while before the game, colleague and friend Daniel Miguez was recounting this funny dialogue between two of his grandchildren, four-year-old twins.
–I think I saw Messi on the street.
–No, it can’t be, Messi does not exist in the cities, Messi exists on the fields.
Almost a symbol of these strange times we live in and how they look at us in the region. There is no human Messi: he is Messiman, a superhero who transcends borders and perhaps that is why the Bolivian players had to ask people to cheer for their own team and not Messi. What’s more, at a couple of moments during the game a timid little song was heard from local fans demanding for the superhero who was on the bench, but sneaking in, in sneakers, with no possibility of entering. Quite a rarity.
They envy us in South America for how the Argentine team plays (with or without Messi) and they see us as a true world power while in the same region they look at us with compassion and bewilderment due to the political times that surround us.
Welber Barral, former secretary of foreign trade of Brazil, writes a column in La Nación: “Much of what we saw in the 2018 electoral campaign (and what is seen now in Argentina) repeats the manual of the alt right (alternative right). American, a political phenomenon that has been expanding for a decade. The model repeats through different means – media and social networks – partial truths or total falsehoods to take advantage of collective resentment. Its statements range from the normalization of the implausible (the Earth is flat) to the direct attack on traditional actors through the deep state or “the caste”. That is why the feeling of déjà vu is inevitable when you see Javier Milei.” And he continues to warn of the dangers of “anti-science” .
Everything is strange these days. And what happened at the Hernando Siles stadium also goes beyond the guidelines that we assume are established. In La Paz you can’t play but the Argentines press and run more than the Bolivians and in the same stadium where they once put six once morest us the National Team wins 3 to 0, clearly with authority and even with dance.
It is strange to see so much difference, it is curious to see Angel Correa with Messi’s number 10 shirt (will we have to start getting used to it?) it is strange to see that the Uruguayan referee Esteban Ostojich lets the Bolivians hit so much, so strange how to see the blows that They hit Bielsa in Uruguay.
As Scaloni said, the virtue of the national team “is wanting to play, not being afraid to do it with the ball.” The qualifiers continue on October 12 and 17. On the 12th Argentina plays with Paraguay at home and on the 17th with Peru, as a visitor. And almost immediately followingward come the general elections of October 22.
You can calmly wait for the double date of the playoffs whether the Messi of the fields and cities plays or not. The other thing, the 22nd thing, that is most worrying remains to be seen. And it will have to be played with audacity, with intelligence and with the heart that Scaloni’s team puts into each presentation. Because you have to win, whatever the cost.
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