Messi and the “Festa dei Campioni”: from the inside, how was the party in Rosario

Lionel Messi cut the sample cake and pass the knife to Leandro Paredes While angel of mary Wait your turn. They start chanting “give him a champion, give him a champion”, and the captain of the Argentina national team, the man who is already a legend, the best player in history, waves his arm savoring the cake and a cap on his head. Messi celebrates.

This Thursday the Messi family threw a New Year’s Eve party at the Casino City Center in Rosario, the same place where Lionel and Antonela celebrated their wedding in 2017. This time, Leo closed the place down so that the celebrations for the obtaining the World Cup in Qatar 2022 have had one more round.

Among the guests was the actor Nicholas Vazquez and his partner, the actress Gimena Accardiwho showed the details of the invitations to the event on their social networks: a card with the legend “world champions” and the three stars that symbolize the world titles of 1978, 1986 and 2022.

Also present were former international players Maxi Rodríguez and Javier Mascherano. In addition to the aforementioned Paredes and Di María, who represented the squad of world champions.

However, the one who showed the first photos of the celebration from inside was Jorge Messi, father and representative of Leo. On his Instagram account, Jorge has posted photos with Paredes and his partner, with Di María and also with Leo and Antonela.

The other who aired what the celebration was like ruben Chub deicas, the lead singer of Los Palmeras, the musical group that the Messi have hired to liven up the party. On the artist’s Instagram account, the three world champion footballers can be seen cutting the commemorative cake for the feat in Qatar. It was actually a giant “alfajor santafesino” that the group gave away to the players.

The cumbia group from Santa Fe, owner of the hits “Bombón”, “El embrujo” and “Qué quiere la Chola”, among many others, had already attended the Tuesday of the 15th birthday of Leo’s niece, daughter of Rodrigo, one of the footballer’s older brothers. La Konga were the other group from the Cordovan quartet – of which Messi is an unconditional fan – hired to make the show of him.

Even the actress Gimena Accardi was an accomplice of the fans who wanted to spy on what was happening inside the party and in an Instagram story she showed a detail in the drinks that were served: a sign with the phrase that Lionel immortalized after the triumph on the Holland, for the quarterfinals, when in the mixed zone he said to the Dutchman Wout Weghorst: “What are you looking at, fool? Go over there”.

The preview of the celebrations

Guests were supposed to start arriving at the convention center from 7pm, everything was delayed, perhaps due to news of the death of Brazilian star Pele and to respect those later times.

But shortly after 21:00, under a zealous security operation that surrounded the entrances of the early morning casino hotel -which was completely closed for the celebration-, Lionel Messi appeared as the driver of his vehicle along with Antonela and her sons Thiago, Matteo and Ciro.

It was chaos, because the fence overflowed and the fans rushed on the team captain’s truck to try to take a close-up picture of him or to receive a gesture from the crack, which tried to greet everyone without rolling down the window.

There were those too Newell’s flags were thrown at himrecalling his past in the Leprosy Inferior Leagues and maintaining the (utopian?) illusion of seeing him retire at the Coloso-Marcelo Bielsa stadium, in the Parque de la Independencia.