The most emotional two minutes of the world champions party: the blow that dazzled Messi and made Scaloni and Dibu Martínez cry

THE Argentina national team returned to play for the first time since his unforgettable coronation in Qatar World Cup 2022. It was in a tight 2-0 victory over a combative Panama B team, with late goals by Thiago Almada AND Lionel Messi -the 800th of his prodigious career-. The important thing, however, was the reunification of the Scaloneta with the people. And the best, as expected, occurred in the two-minute preview of the friendly in which the Monumental literally collapsed with an image and sound that has been traveling around the world since Thursday evening.

Is that with the players lined up waiting for the anthems, the 84,000 fans who were lucky enough to get a ticket to occupy the stands of the River Stadium sang in unison the hit “Muchachos”, the one that has become popular during the days happy in Qatar. And the effect was pure shock. Is that the Monumental has vibrated and all that energy has mobilized the players and the coaching staff of the national team in different ways.

It is that while Messi had a tight smile and looked towards the stands without ceasing to look at what Antonela Roccuzzo and her three sons, Thiago, Mateo and Ciro were doing, without ceasing to enjoy the moment that perhaps he has been waiting for during these three months and five days after his coronation in Lusail, his other companions could not help but cry when they received so much affection in the form of song.

Emiliano Dibu Martínez and Cristian Cuti Romero burst into tearss, like Lionel Scaloni, who watched standing from the substitutes’ bench with his sons as Praetorian guards, and stopped humming to get excited over and over again.

The other defining moment was when the Argentine anthem was sung a cappella by Ariel Ardit, a singer who is a bit like the Messi of tango. There the captain of the national team was seen again, accompanied by his three children, while enjoying a unique moment. Beside him, broken with emotion, Dibu Martínez and Cuti Romero wept loudly again. The same as Scaloni, who couldn’t even keep his tear ducts from springing into action for the umpteenth time since his team touched the sky with their hands.

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Once the match was over and the players raised the cup again – indeed, the cups because Messi lifted his reply and the other 24 present in Núñez took theirs – the players of the selected team closed the party of world champions with a karaoke of pep songs.

At the end of the final show of La Konga, Lautaro Martínez, Paulo Dybala and Ángel Di María took the microphone and started singing songs together with the audience.

“We want to keep celebrating,” said the Bahian to Sergio Goycochea and started with “Muchachos”.

“A minute of silence for France that is dead”then the players wrapped in the “albiceleste” cotillion would sing.

The unexpected moment surprised and held back the exit of the public who stayed a few more minutes to enjoy the end of the party.

Messi and Scaloni were lifted onto a litter shouting “Que de la mano” and sparked laughter from the whole squad.

The “Dibu” dance and Messi’s refusal to participate despite the audience’s request, plus the standing ovation for “Fideo”, completed the bonus track which the players improvised for the audience.

“The truth is that I could not hold back the tears for all this. The emotion of seeing people so happy and grateful, like us for them, is very strong and emotional”, confessed Emiliano Martínez who reprinted his Dibu celebration with Germán Pezzella, Guido Rodríguez, Gerónimo Rulli and Marcos Acuña.

“This is what I’ve dreamed of all my life and now I’ve achieved it and I’m living it with great emotion. And we want to thank people not only for today’s party, but for everything they have given us in Qatar”. concluded Leandro Paredes.

And his midfield partner, Rodrigo De Paul, accompanied on the pitch by his girlfriend, the singer Tini Stoessel, underlined that “this goal and these moments are something that seemed unattainable”.

“I too have experienced so many emotions in recent months and that’s why I spoke little and wanted to lower the tension. For example, I was injured in the penalty shoot-out with Roma and it turns out that in the World Cup final I did what I will remember forever,” Dybala said.

“After winning the World Cup, I cried a lot and I was left with the recognition of my father, who always accompanied me so that I could be a footballer and today he must be very happy with all this,” Cordovan said.

For his part, Lautaro Martínez also collapsed “when he saw the whole family, my parents, my wife, the child he was carrying in his belly and the one he was carrying by the hand. It is something that inevitably makes you cry”.

“But we also know that we have to move forward to continue with this process. I am aware that we have had a very big generational change and now we can enjoy it. I do it and it is good for me that Lionel Scaloni has bet on me in difficult times,” he said . .