Who are the two Argentinian fans who carried the ball since Lionel Messi’s last goal at the World Cup?

The Qatar World Cup 2022 it’s over. The Argentina national team became world champion and Lionel Messi He raised the cup he’s been searching for all his life. Despite the fact that four days have passed before the final against France, incredible stories continue to appear related to this match that will remain forever in the memory of the Argentines.

John and ignacio They come from the city of Castelar, Partido de Morón, west of Greater Buenos Aires. The brothers held the last ball with which Lionel Messi scored a goal in a World Cup, the one in the 3-2 set against France in the final. And they brought it to the country. How did they do it?

“The truth is that we were very lucky because it is the most shouted goal ball of the last 30 years. We were lucky that one of the Argentina national team players blew it towards the block we were on and it fell very close to us.“Ignacio explained this morning in an interview with phone.

The sequence corresponds to a game of Paul Dybalain the last play of the match when Kylian Mbappé started piling up his rivals in the Argentina area causing many hearts to stop.

“It wasn’t just us, a Frenchman had it. I explained to him that the ball had to be returned to the police, The Frenchman passed it to me and then didn’t throw the ball away for the worldadded the Argentine.

And he completed: «One of the policemen came to ask me for it and I was unable to take it off. And when the supervisor arrived he told me ‘okay, the ball is yours’“.

The ball is the same with which Lionel Messi scored the 3-2 3-2 with which Argentina partially took the lead in the World Cup final in the 4th minute of the second extra time. Then came Kylian Mbappé’s equalizer and penalties where the I drew Martinez shined.

Ignacio explained that the person in charge of carrying out the “distraction operation” so that they didn’t take the ball away from him was his brother Juan, who was with him in the stands of the Lusail stadium.

Thus, the brother took the floor and explained to journalists that the balls were always returned once they landed in the stands. But somehow they managed to stop that from happening. “I sneak among the people, then come back and sit on it“, He says.

Amazingly they came across Marley and Lali Esposito In that commotion, even celebrities were in the stadium watching the world final and asked if they could touch the ball.

After that particular moment, they received permission from the police to take the balloon away and breathed a sigh of relief.

They didn’t deflate it, or put it in the suitcase. They wanted to keep him in the same state he was. The brothers came with the ball in its place and did not send it on the plane for fear that something would happen to it.

or there are doubts that it is the ball at the movie. The same used in the semi-finals and in the final of the World Cup. has the membership “Argentina vs. France – Final 18th December 2022, Lusail Stadium” and an inside chip that served to validate the goal, since at first it raised doubts as to whether or not the ball had crossed the line.

The brothers claimed to have received an offer of 21 thousand dollars by some Qatari sheikhs for the ball. But they said no.

Also, they asked live for a Lionel Messi signature to make this item even more special. Then, when asked what they would do if the Argentina national team captain asked them for the ball, they said: “I take her to Rosario on foot“.