The Argentina national team sang the anthem on all television channels a few hours before the final against France

The Qatar 2022 World Cup final between Argentina and France is just a few hours away, and the expectations are rising. To alleviate the wait (or increase the anxiety of the fans, as the case may be), the Argentine Football Federation (AFA) has ordered a very particular institutional action. It is that, at midnight this Sunday, the main television signals on the air go on the air the Argentine national anthem sung by the players of the Argentine national team.

In fact, it is a common practice for broadcasters, although this time, exactly 12 hours after the most important football match of the year, Telefe, El Trece, América, El Nueve, Net Tv and La Televisión Pública broadcast , at the same time, to the players of the team led by Lionel Scaloni who sing the national song.

The material was provided by Torneos, with the clear aim of motivating viewers on the eve of the match at the Lusail stadium in Doha, where Argentina and France will try to add their third world star.

The video began with the Argentine flag displayed in stadiums before the start of each national team match. Then, images of Argentine players, both starters and substitutes, were seen singing the final part of the anthem, on the eve of the match against Croatia, which gave Argentina a ticket to the final of the tournament.

The change in Qatar 2022

In tournaments that took place before Russia 2018, the Argentine national anthem it was heard without lyrics in stadium coffers, because FIFA limits each nation’s anthems to 90 seconds. For this reason the Argentine players were generally deprived of singing any of the verses and of assisting, in recent years, the accompaniment of the fans with the “oh, oh, oh” that had become a classic.

However, after that tournament, where Argentina was eliminated in the round of 16, precisely against France, at the request of Scaloni and his collaborator Pablo Aimar, FIFA authorized the addition of at least the final part of the national song.

Thus it was that from an Under 20 tournament in Valencia, Spain, the Argentina national team began to listen to the most emotional part of its anthem, the one that has the text and ends with an epic section: “…crowned with glory we live or we swear with glory to die!”

Although this part of the anthem was also heard in the 2019 Copa América, as well as the 2021 one where Argentina was champion of none other than Brazil and beat the local team in the deciding match, Qatar 2022 is the first Cup of the World in which includes the anthem with lyrics.

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