Rosario, Pujato, Calchín, Mar del Plata, cities and towns in Argentina celebrate their three-time world champions, who returned to their homeland to rest after the historic caravan of five million people in Buenos Aires to celebrate winning the FIFA World Cup Qatar-2022.
After four hours of intense sun and difficulties to advance, the parade had to end by air, when Lionel Messi, Ángel Di María and Rodrigo De Paul with the World Cup flew in a helicopter over the Obelisk, the Plaza de Mayo and all the area that was expected to be traveled by open bus on Tuesday (20).
After the very long reception was over, Captain Alviceleste left by private plane for Rosario, 310 kilometers north of Buenos Aires, and then, together with Di María, was transferred by helicopter to a condominium in the city of Funes, on the outskirts of the city. , to spend the rest days with the family.
“Let him go out for a second”, “We want a photo and let’s go”, said residents of Rosário, with the alviceleste shirt, who waited this Wednesday behind the fences put up to protect the condominium, hoping to see their hero.
It remains to be seen whether there will be an event at the Flag Monument, the usual epicenter of football celebrations in Rosario to honor natives Messi, Di María and Angel Correa.
“If they want, let’s think of something. We’re happy that they want to come and spend a few days with their family and the priority is for them to come and have fun. They’re going to spend the holidays here”, declared the mayor of Rosario, Pablo Javkin.
proud villages
40 km from Rosario is Pujato, a city of just 3,700 inhabitants where coach Lionel Scaloni was born.
There, the celebrations are being measured because they are still in mourning due to the death of one of their young residents in an accident during the World Cup.
However, on Sunday, when Argentina won the World Cup, ending a 36-year drought, the people of Pujato celebrated in the streets.
“On Sunday it was necessary to celebrate and accompany Scaloni for everything he had done (…) Logically, at some point we will receive Lionel, but when he says so. We respect his time. He has a discreet profile”, said the representative of the community, Daniel Quacquarini.
“The dream of all Argentines has come true. I am eternally grateful, thrilled to see them happy,” Scaloni wrote on Instagram.
In Calchín, another municipality of 3,000 inhabitants, 650 kilometers north of Buenos Aires, the party is ready.
This Wednesday he is declared an ‘honorary citizen’ and the keys to the city are given to champion Julián ‘La Araña’ Álvarez, born there 22 years ago. There will also be a caravan of the Manchester City striker, one of the revelations of the World Cup, in which he scored four goals for the three-time champion team.
Mar del Plata vibrates with Dibu
Mar del Plata, Argentina’s largest resort nicknamed the Happy City, will pay tribute on Thursday to goalkeeper Emiliano Dibu Martínez, who left that city when he was 12 years old.
“Thank you Dibu for bringing us so much happiness”, read one of the many messages left on the door of his home where he arrived on Tuesday night.
At Playa Las Toscas, the same place where 100,000 people gathered to watch the World Cup games, he will be declared an illustrious citizen of Mar del Plata, where the goalkeeper has a home in a gated community.
Young Alexis MacAllister, another revelation in Qatar and who plays for Brighton in the English Premier League, was welcomed with signs and a lot of singing in Santa Rosa, his hometown in the province of La Pampa.
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