The celebration of the champion: a crowd in the tribute to Enzo Fernández and Exequiel Palacios in San Martín

The caravan of champions doesn’t stop. This Monday, midfielders Enzo Fernández and Exequiel Palacios will receive a tribute in the Buenos Aires match against San Martínthe place where they both started playing ball as boys.

Under the motto “We receive our samples”, the municipality organized in Central square of San Martino an act of recognition for the two world champions in Qatar 2022, which will include a show by La Mosca, the group that set the Cup to music with the hit: “Guys, now we’re excited again….”.

It will be from 12, but right from the start the square and the surroundings were filled with fans who wanted to be close to the two local idols.

It won’t be the first tribute to champions. In the last few hours, from the municipality They prepared a mural on the corner of José Hernández and CabildoVilla Ballester, where they honor Fernández, one of the champion figures.

Enzo Fernández, 21, originally from River Plate, was born in San Martín. He has family there who he visits when he returns from Europe, where he works for Benfica in Portugal.

The midfielder was one of the great revelations of the World Cup, in fact He was awarded by FIFA as the best young player. He also scored a great goal against Mexico, who made it 2-0 in the second round of the group stage after receiving a pass from Lionel Messi.

Fernández started as a substitute and earned ownership through an outstanding performance. Today there are several greats in Europe who are struggling to keep their talent for next season. Real Madrid, Liverpool and Manchester United are some of those who signed up.

Palacios, 24 and also a del River, was born in the town of Famaillá, in Tucumán, but lived in San Martín before moving to Germany, where he plays in the Bundesliga for Bayer Leverkusen.

The other gifts of La Scaloneta

Since they returned to the village, the Scaloneta players continue to party. In addition to crowding receiving nearly 5 million of people on the streets of Buenos Aires, each of the team members was greeted by crowds in their hometowns.

One of the biggest was for Emiliano “Dibu” Martinez in Mar del Plata, where between 120 and 140 thousand people came to greet him on the stage of Las Toscas beach, between Bristol and the Torreón del Monje, transformed once again into an immense amphitheater.

There was Arena Fest, where an estimated 600,000 people watched Argentina matches on their screens. Dibu recounted how Aurelien Tchouameni, the French player who took the second penalty, “blew it all up” and missed and, at the request of the crowd, danced just like he did at that party. The applause from the crowd was huge.

Julián Álvarez, for his part, was honored in Calchín, the small city of Córdoba where the “Spider” took his first steps, scored his first dribble and scored his first goals. Nearly 10,000 people were waiting for him there. They were many more than the total population. Is that residents of neighboring cities went to the city to receive the regional hero.

Alexis Mac Allister was greeted by another crowd in Santa Rosa. He was the first world champion of La Pampa. Even Lionel Scaloni, the company’s DT, had his tribute to Pujatothe small town of Santa Fe that came into everyone’s mouth for birthing the DT that brought “the third.”