With a stick and his classic bass drum, Tula travels to Qatar for his thirteenth World Cup: “It’s my passport”

Without the bass drum, because he had already sent it, but leaning on the stick. Slowly, but firmly. Carlos Pascual, better known as “the tulla“arrived at Ezeiza airport to go to the Qatar World Cup and therefore be able to say present in yours thirteenth such event in a row.

From Germany 74, Tula never lost a World Cup. She has participated in all of them, always with her hype behind her.

“Like an Argentinian, I travel with a lot of anxiety“, he said when asked by journalists who from the airport report the news on fans who travel to the Arab country. Then, the most recognized fan of the national team released a cyclical sentence: “The only loyalty exists in football, because in politics they are all traitors“, he shot through laughter.

Tula, who has always been linked to Peronism, tells whenever he can about the times he met Juan Domingo Peron and the signed bass drum that the former president gave him. Also that she even sold a photo with him to be able to pay for several trips: “Having no money, she sold the photo of me with Perón which she called ‘the photo of Tula with Perón’ and people bought it“, he said in previous interviews.

This time, with a focus on Qatar, Tula will have to go to Rome, where he will stop for a few hours and then continue towards the promised land, where Argentina will make its debut in the World Cup on Tuesday.

How long it will remain is still unknown. Everything will be linked to the results of the Argentine team. “How long do I stay? It all depends on Argentina, what do I know? You have to wait for Argentina to play. And then I don’t know when I will have a return ticket.

Carlos explained that despite the economic difficulties that the country is going through, a businessman paid for his trip and helped him with the money needed to participate in the sporting event of the year: “He wasn’t a politician nor was he the AFA. It was my work friends that I have had for many years who helped me.”

Always in a good mood, long-winded, Tula never loses its grace. When he arrived at the airport they offered him a wheelchair to be able to move more comfortably, but he thanked him and excluded: “I told him no, I have energy, I have life”replied the employees.

As for the fuss, he said he mailed it as soon as it arrived in Ezeiza: “Hype is my life, my passport. I accompany him“, he said excitedly and eager to fly.

As well as the journalist Enrique Macaya Márquez will set a record capping their 17th consecutive World Cupeven the Tula thing seems to enter the register of historic brands with its thirteenth consecutive participation.

In addition to appearing on international television shows, appearing on the covers of newspapers and magazines of the time, and in several World Cup stories, Tula began his love of soccer at Rosario Central. The team you are a fan of.

Talking to Clarín weeks ago, the Argentinian fan told how his passion began: “My first bass drum, which was the one I played on the Rosario Central field, I gave it to General Perón. Later, I had another one that was stolen. There were several. But that of Germany 74 is pure history for everything that was experienced in that tournament,” she underlined.

And he described his first World Cup experience: “Everything is a great memory. I hitchhiked with the hype. He sent me to Madrid, where I already knew it from having had a meeting with Perón. Then I had to go to the French border and from there just to Germany.”

“The truth is, I got on a train without a ticket and jumped in there with excitement. The problem is that the police came to ask me for a ticket and I didn’t have it. Therefore, I started saying ‘World, World’I showed them my passport and they let me cross the border. Later, in Germany, I was saved by a Spaniard who took me to reports and paid for the bus ticket to the city where the national team was concentrated. There, I’ve been with them before. Even so, it wasn’t easy because the police didn’t get anything with the uproar and they wanted to take it away from me. However, everyone already knew me because until he had done a report for the BBC with a translator”, he told of that first unforgettable experience.

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