Blocks and blocks and blocks. Hanging from the kilometers of billboards, from the windows, on the balconies, on the terraces, climbed on the roofs of the houses, climbed on the traffic lights and on the billboards. The tide of people poured into the streets of the city of Santiago del Estero to watch the passage of the world champions. Thousands and thousands of fans, mostly families, gathered very early near the Hilton Hotel, located right in front of the Santiago Governor’s office, to hold a vigil that got long and hot. Eventually the team, with Lionel Messi at the helm, were seen above the bus – but not a convertible – and made their way through downtown surrounded by a large police custody before heading to the Estadio Unico Madre de Ciudades.
The madness for the world champion team has overflowed this province of northern Argentina.
An 80-year-old woman held up a small sign from her balcony, next to the hotel where Messi and company stayed: “I love them”it said in black letters. That love has been multiplied by thousands of locals and also many who have come from Tucumán, Salta, Jujuy, Catamarca, La Rioja, Mendoza, Córdoba, among other places, to see closely the culprits of having obtained the third star for Argentina.
That journey of the bus from when it left the bunker to when it entered the stadium lasted 24 minutes.. Everything went smoothly and everyone was able to say goodbye to their idols. Obviously all through the glass of the micro. Although there was an original idea to use the open bus, which was actually parked on the street of the hotel ready to be embarked, in the end they decided to move in the conventional way. Obviously they complied by passing through the Fan Zone organized a few blocks from the Albiceleste’s accommodation, where there was a large concentration of people. Some players have filmed the popular greetings and thanks with their mobile phones.
Most of the fans were without tickets. Very few had the privilege of being able to obtain a ticket to attend the party inside the camp, with a capacity of 42,000 spectators (although fewer tickets were put on sale). Others, as happened last Thursday at the River, were victims of the scam and were unable to enter because they had bought fake tickets.
Inside, on one of the heads, the one that commanded the night with drums and laces, was the wild bar of the center of Córdoba…
Santiago de Abroad. Special delivery.
Source: Clarin
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