The controversial and religious video of the AFA one month after the World Cup consecration in Qatar

The Argentine Football Federation gave him a religious and controversial tribute to Lionel Messi a month after the consecration with the Argentine team in Qatar 2022 World Cupwhere the albiceleste managed to lift the trophy for the third time in its history.

When Lionel Scaloni’s team sealed the ticket for the 22nd most important tournament in the football universe, Argentinian fans began to “choose to believe”.

Believe in the team, believe in the coach, believe in his emblem, the 10. The one who has been definitively designated as the second great God of Argentine football, together with Diego Maradona. Flags, memes and endless demonstrations gave both of them that place from the stands.

“I believe in God the Father, Almighty”, begins the video which pretends to reflect the Sistine Chapel. Where God and Jesus Christ meet in the clouds.

With the captain of Mexico 86 indicated by being celestial of football and that of Qatar as his “only son”. the cabsolute Christianization of the two most important Argentine footballers in history leaves its mark from the very beginning of the audiovisual product.

“… creator of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, his only Son. Our Lord, who was conceived by the work and grace of the Holy Spirit, was born of the Virgin Mary…”, continues the video, and reflects Doña Tota and Don Diego as the other two rings of the “Holy Trinity” that gave rise to the “Messiah”.

While some consider the number 10s to be football gods, the Creed, a prayer used off-screen to accompany digital animation, isn’t the only speech for religious or football fans.

Jews, Muslims and fans of Ricardo Bochini, Norberto Alonso, Mario Kempes -among others-. Protestants and worshipers of other players or religions are excluded, paganized.

“He suffered under the power of Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried, descended into hell, on the third day he rose from the dead”, is the fragment that illustrates the sporting “death” of the Paris Saint Germain star for failing to become a champion with the national team from his debut in 2005 until 2021, when he won the Copa América, his first title. his resurrection.

“He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father, almighty”, continues the video, already in the glorious stage of the Rosary in Doha, at the Lusail stadium, as he said many times, so that God gives him the Cup.

“From there he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, in the Holy Catholic Church, in the communion of saints, in the forgiveness of sins, in the resurrection of the body and in eternal life”, the animation begins close., while law in white letters, on a design by Messi sanctified, “We choose to believe in the only one who doesn’t believe us”.

Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia, president of the AFA, is a religious who, since his triumph in the Maracaná, has paraded the continental and world trophies through places linked to faith such as the Basilica of Luján and the Difunta Correa, in San Juan.

Messi doesn’t believe it and football is sometimes about trusting that the team will win. And this Selection, in particular, united and did not divide or segment. The video produced by the AFA seems to go in the opposite direction.

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