A month and two days have passed, but the coronation of the Argentina national team inside Qatar World Cup 2022 still present. Like it happened five minutes ago. It is for the vast majority of the Argentine people and it is also for the Racing fans, who have lived their “moment Leo Messi” after the team led by Fernando Gago were crowned champions of the International Super Cup after beating Boca 2-1 in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi.
Why do we say Academy fans have had their Messi moment? why the captain ivan pillud He had some fun and, at the request of his teammates, he recreated the scene in which the best player in history acted as he lifted the cup at the Lusail stadium.
And right-sided naivete instantly became a meme. Yes, it didn’t take netizens long to transform Pillud into Messi and put the bisht on him, that is the shirt Leo was wearing when it became the postcard of the last World Cup.
“It’s me. He calls me, what’s his name… The bisht. For a moment I would have liked to feel like Messi”, said Pillud clarion in the locker room of the Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium when he was shown the already viral meme on the networks.
And he continued: “I’m very happy, very excited. I don’t know if they saw it, but I did a little more than Messi. The boys drove me crazy for him to do it. I didn’t want the moment to go unnoticed. I had to entertain them by doing that gesture”.
At that moment Pillud was moved and recalled the enterprise of La Escaloneta in Lusail, near Al Ain, in the Middle East.
“For us, Messi is number one and we always support the national team. Luckily we come from world champions and today it was up to us to crown ourselves and win another title,” he concluded with a smile.
Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Special delivery.
Source: Clarin
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