The forearm of César “Bocha” Rendón, after 82 years, it looks different. For a few days now, three stars have been printed on the skin of this man who lives in Misiones, the same figure that the Argentine national team accumulated after the conquest of Qatar in 2022, and the surname Messi in the center, just above the historic date: “18 – 12-2022”.

that of get your first tattoo In the current phase of his life, overcoming some preconceptions, it was a decision agreed with his family, to honor those responsible for having made him experience “something completely different” during this World Cup. What he didn’t imagine, no doubt, is this that intimate decision would quickly go viral and would exceed one million views on social networks.

“It came about a bit because of my granddaughters. It occurred to me to get a tattoo, but we never thought that was why”, he admitted in statements he made, shyly and surrounded by his family, on Misiones Online TV.

And he explained that of all the promises he could have kept, he opted for the tattoo because he thought it “was the simplest and most discreet”. However, she was wrong.

Is that after one of her nine granddaughters, María José, set out her case in a Twitter post in which she wrote “Hi Messi, my grandfather loves you”The comments were not long in coming.

“The best grandfather in the country”, “The best tattoo so far since the one I see at the World Cup” and “Grandpa, lololololo”, remembering the woman from Villa Luro who also had her moment of fame during the tournament, were some of the responses to a tweet that today is close to 50,000 “likes”.

“Bocha” acknowledged that people who got tattoos “always” caught his attention, but not because he wanted to have that experience but because I wondered ‘why hurt the body’”. But now, with Argentina’s consecration in Qatar, her gaze has changed. “He came out and he came out,” she explained.

Rendón said, in this sense, that he had not undergone the hitherto unprecedented trial for him. He maintained that “within the blows one can take in life”, the stings to which he was subjected “were minimal”.

The man, who has been married to a “divine” woman for six decades and has two daughters and four great-grandchildren, as well as nine grandchildren, commented on the funny situation he experienced when he met the person who gave him the tattoo. “Old man, what are you doing here?” was the phrase with which the person in charge of dabbing his skin greeted him.

“This World Cup was different”

Rendón witnessed Argentina’s three world titles. In any case, he highlighted the differences between them all and put the one achieved this year in first place among his preferences. Furthermore, he praised the figure of the albiceleste captain, Lionel Messi.

“The one from 78 (saw him) more or less because he was inside. But this and the one from ’86 I’ve seen well. This I think was something completely different for everyone. I had never seen such an impressive number of people at 9 de Julio and throughout the country,” she stressed.

And he added: “The first one I remember most is 1986, with Maradona. It was very nice. But this was different. Messi is the word, but Messi means the whole group”.

Finally, he said that he celebrated the victory of the World Cup “with a lot of fernet” and that he attended the celebrations on the Posadas seafront. “It was quite a show,” she described.

“I would have liked to see Dybala play more, but everyone was fine. They really were a team“, complete.

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