Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sent on Monday a congratulatory letter to Alberto Fernández, in which he celebrated the achievement of the third world title by the Argentine team after a “spectacular” victory against France. Furthermore, he stated that “the affection and love for football deeply unites both peoples”.
The Bengali manager mainly highlighted the feeling that the inhabitants of her country express for the Argentine team. “The people of Bangladesh have shown their admiration and love for her through the spontaneous celebration of the victory of one’s national football team at the World Cup”, added the official text.
In parallel, Hasina stated that “this unprecedented love and care” between the two peoples “have paved the way for solid bilateral relations” between the two countries. “To that end, I hope to further consolidate our relationship by opening missions in each of the other capitals in the coming days,” she teased.
At the beginning of the letter, Hasina conveyed her “most sincere congratulations” to the president and “the friendly people of the Argentine Republic for the spectacular victory of the Argentine football team in the 2022 FIFA World Cup”.
The fanaticism that the Argentina national team produced in Bangladesh during the World Cup was absolute. Thousands of fans from that country took to the streets to celebrate after each La Scaloneta triumph.
It explodes devotion to Argentinian playersmainly by Lionel Messi, who Sadia Faizunnesa, Bangladesh’s ambassador to Brazil and who serves as diplomatic authority for Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile, has admitted to dreaming that the national team and, above all, its captain, play a match in their lands .
“We want to bring Messi to Bangladesh“, Faizunnesa expressed in dialogue with the news agency telam. And he warned: “We will try to do it, we want to play a match in Bangladesh. Messi is very popular, we love Argentines for football so it would be an honor to have him in our country”.
In this sense, the ambassador assured, “there are a historical link between Bangladesh and Argentina“. “When we declared independence in 1971, Argentina recognized it very early on,” he recalled, and assured that the figure of Diego Maradona was the key to generating this Asian country’s fanaticism for South American football .
“Since we were a British colony, football has always been very popular. Argentina has always stood out, so there started to be more and more interest in the Argentine team and at the 1986 World Cup Maradona became a legend. I remember many people they saw the world in Bangladesh,” he said.
An absolute fanaticism for the national team: “We feel part of the country”
Fans from both Bangladesh and neighboring India have expressed their admiration for the national team’s championship win and have assured that they feel part of Argentina.
“Our love for Argentina has grown more and more and now we are all fans. Argentina no longer looks like another country, we seem to be the same country, we feel part of it. Like two children from different mothers,” said Saidunnabi Zubair, a 24-year-old student from Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
Zubair said he watched the game against France at Victoria Park on an outdoor projector and described Argentina’s penalty shoot-out as “the best win in World Cup history” and added: “Leo Messi is in our hearts”.
In Bangladesh, fanaticism for the national team meant that giant screens were installed in several cities to view the match, which pitted Messi against French star Kylian Mbappé.
“The Argentine flag was seen on all the roofs of houses, in shops, in schools, in city parks. We watched the match and made a procession from midnight until 3 in the morning, we distributed candies and Argentina T-shirts” , said Zubair, excited that the Argentine team can visit the Asian country in the future.
Even the celebrations for the achievement of the Scudetto replicated in India neighboring country of Bangladesh, where there were thousands of fans who experienced the Argentine triumph with euphoria. “I watched the match in New Delhi in a football team on a giant screen with my friends. People were super excited,” Aparajit Chattopadhyay, a Spanish teacher who lives in Calcutta but traveled to the Indian capital to see. match.
“It was a historic triumph after 36 years of waiting. The match kicked off at 8pm from here and We sing and dance until the wee hours of the morning today”, assured Chattopadhyay and commented that “a famous Bengali singer dedicated a song to Messi, Maradona and the national team which was released at midnight after the victory and has already become very popular”.
“After this match, Messi has become an icon like Maradona for the populations of the Indian subcontinent. Football fans will always remember him,” concluded the professor.
With information from Telam.
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Source: Clarin
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