Champions: Argentine maracanazo!

The National Team achieved an epic victory against Brazil. After 28 years, we celebrate this unforgettable feat. Messi’s dream, of all.

The country is a tight hug, it’s Messi with Di María and Agüero, it’s Scaloni with Aimar, Ayala and Samuel, they are the Martínez with the Romeros, the Paredes with the De Paul, the Acuña with the Montiel, the Rodríguez with Lo Celso, it’s you with your son who asks you to take him to the Obelisk, they are the Messi generation who can finally see their idol champion and feel like champions. It is Messi in the air, fluttered by his teammates who sing that from the hand of “Leo Messi we are all going to turn around”.

. It is the end of one story, it is the beginning of another. Argentina was left with the final of the Copa América, Argentina achieved a Maracanazo, enough sad images, enough eating so much shit. The National Team raises the cup, Brazil looks at it, Messi is the king in their land. Messi has just become eternal (if he was not already) to climb the pedestal of glory. It is not a World Cup, of course, but to win a final against Neymar, at home, against Bolsonaro who said they made us five, makes it look quite like a World Cup.

Bye drought, bye 28 damn years, bye 18 tournaments without being able to kiss the cup, bye five lost finals. A new era begins, a new statistic, life begins in which there are no generations without Olympic laps.

There is no pandemic that can stop this emotion, there are so many years of frustrations that there are hugs of the soul that do not understand viruses. If soccer was always much more than a sport for Argentines, an activity in which we always look for Messi or Maradona to give us the joys (or solutions) that the politicians of the day did not give, in the midst of this world chaos this joy overcomes many barriers, calms anguish, exalts hearts.

Then, players who before this Copa América could go to the supermarket and not be recognized, today they became heroes. As happened to Draw Martínez on penalties with Colombia, Guido Rodríguez for his goal against Uruguay or Nicolás González for giving up his life in each ball. These are three examples, they can be a lot.

Because Argentina is champion, it cuts the spell at the least logical moment in its history: with a coaching staff that had no experience, with a lot of players who did not even have their proper training in the Youth for the mismanagements from 2007 to 2017, and that suddenly, they came out to show their faces, to support their captain, the genius who came down from the poster to transform him into a companion of emotions.

A feeling, don’t try to understand it. That’s why everyone throws themselves on top of the Cup, andAbove Captain Leo, they know what they had to work for during these 45 days. Those who had to endure not seeing their families (some were parents, others could not accompany sick relatives), the more than 30 swabs, the more than 40 thousand kilometers traveled, the more than ten flights, the seven games, to reach shout champion.

That bubble that never broke, those 70 people who swore to arrive until the last day, they succeeded and in the Maracana touched the sky with their hands. There is Messi hugging to Omar Souto, the historic leader who is already over 80 and who was on the premises when he arrived in 2004, the same does the 10 with the eternal utility Marito Destéfano who also took care of him as a pigeon. One day everyone had the glory.

The players sing, dance and do not feel tired. What is adrenaline, having fulfilled their greatest wish, of a people. They get together with the people (those privileged people who can say I was there, I was in the Maracana and I was one of the 2000 Argentines who did what everyone wanted), and they move here, they move there. And the anthem of 2014 (“Brazil tell me what you feel” plays), on the same stage that filled everyone with sadness, seven years later it was a joy difficult to describe.

Di María cries and feels that so much effort, so much kicking when he was not called, had an effect. If Messi was the one who deserved it the most, Angelito is one step behind because he suffered the finals of 2014, 2015 and 2016, and yesterday he became a hero to get among the top of the National Team in history, not only because of the amount of matches but because it got into the heart.

“It is time to strike,” Messi had said at the start of the Copa América. And what if the table, the house, the building and a country were hit. And precisely to the classic rival. What a way to play a final, Selection. With authority, with solidarity, with eggs, with football, with talent, with Messi blowing her up at the gate of the area when necessary. There was no other possibility to beat a Brazil, which came better, which was more rolled, with a consolidated cycle like Tite’s. Because they had everything in their favor and they had never lost a Copa América final when they were the organizers, but there is always a first time. And what better than in this eternal Maracanazo, which will become a movie, mini series, meme, reels and everything you want.

And as if it were not too much of a prize to have won in the home of your classic rival, this title makes you the most champion of the Copa América, reaching Uruguay, taking more advantage of Brazil. Argentina did it, a country celebrates it. For Messi, who did not shine, football paid in the best way, with a night that will never be forgotten again. With Diego celebrating in heaven and with him on earth.

The great moments of the night

Look also the second in which Messi became champion. The one by one of Argentina. And the memes Victory. The posting of Leo with Antonela and the boys. The words of Scaloni. Y all the coverage of the National Team party at the Maracana.

The videos of the night of the maracanazo