From our special envoy to hell,
It was written.
A little too much, say the bad losers and other fans of online petitions.
Argentina on top of the world for the third time, 36 years after the epic of Maradona, carried by a Lionel Messi at the end of the road.
The Last Dance, as they say in the orange balloon world.
Not quite, by the way.
The Parisian was quick to announce at the microphone of Tyc Sports that, all things considered, he would prolong the adventure well, that hey, the third star on the jersey was so difficult to win, you might as well burn a little with it before leave.
“I want to continue playing for Argentina to honor the title of world champion.
That's the title I was missing and here it is.
It's crazy.
He made himself wait.
I can't wait to go celebrate it in the country to see the madness there.
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Walkabout in Doha among Argentinians… and Indians
La Pulga and his teammates gave themselves a small sample of the fireworks that await them in Buenos Aires by parading through the streets of Doha in the middle of a crowd committed to their cause.
Another reason to believe in this World Cup was promised to them.
Far ahead of the non-existent Qatari team and alongside Morocco, Argentina played at home.
Still on Sunday, in Lusail, three quarters of the stands were Albiceleste in colour, and who knows how many speakers would have had to be built to accommodate all the Argentinian supporters of Doha.
And not just Argentinians.
Revelations of the tournament, the Indian supporters had only the name of Messi in the mouth for a month, adding a little more weight to an already massive support, even if it meant bordering on an overdose.
Argentina have gone straight on a bus down Lusail Boulevard.
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History will remember that everything could have ended badly, for the men of Lionel Scaloni, after a start upside down against Saudi Arabia.
Historic defeat and not in a good way.
It was yesterday.
The Argentinian team, ashamed, in single file in the mixed zone.
Not one to look at anything other than the carpet, especially not Di Maria, carpet behind Dibu Martinez to better avoid questions.
A salutary fiasco, "which made us grow" will say Messi.
“After that, we had to play five finals,” everyone else will say.
Practice before playing the real one.
With a scenario already perfectly worked in the quarter-finals against the Netherlands.
Leading 2-0, being caught at the buzzer and then winning on penalties by being detestable.
Worked in the laboratory by professionals.
Winning dirty, Argentinian DNA
Putting aside the quiet success against the Croats, the Argentinians had no easy game.
Everything was gritty, suffering and “cunning” to paraphrase Deschamps.
Their campaign will have been a beautiful tribute to the idea that we have had of this team since the hand of God in 1986: a clever mix of vice and talent to make you crazy.
We were also touched for a while by the “dirty earning” of these guys carrying on their shoulders the hopes of a people on the verge of fanaticism and ready to do anything to make them come true.
Also amused: Messi as a bad boy facing Van Gaal, Leandro Paredes or De Paul as eternal shit-fuckers, Martinez who eats the brains of the Oranje, entertainment level, that's where it is.
After the final, everything changed.
No bad French faith.
Finally if, probably a little, the same which makes us say that the Albiceleste obtained three times too many penalties throughout the tournament, counting that of Sunday.
But there was too much vulgarity, and not enough Coubertin spirit in the manner of welcoming the third star.
And it's all the more infuriating that Deschamps, Varane and Lloris, all three congratulated Argentina on their final victory "without looking for excuses".
Not that Dibu Martinez took pity on our Blues in the mixed zone.
“We controlled the match and they equalized with two shitty shots, swung the strange Albiceleste goalkeeper in the mixed zone.
It was our destiny to suffer because we scored the 3-2 goal and then the referee gave them another penalty.
“Hospital and charity, you know the song.
Mbappé whistled to the end
If so, that was all it was.
The infernal Aston Villa goalkeeper, whose IQ is probably equal to the number of stars on the shirt of his national team, split with an obscene gesture in mondiovison when receiving his trophy for best goalkeeper.
Moment chosen to remind us that Diego Simeone, who once made the same gesture in front of the camera, is also Argentinian.
Logical lineage.
In short, to close the Martinez chapter, know that this genius asked his partners in the locker room for a minute of silence for Kylian Mbappé.
The same who had just planted a hat-trick, with an additional barge during the penalty shootout.
The nerve at its peak.
Unfortunately, the prize for bullshit goes to the Argentinian supporters.
The latter could not help whistling Mbappé to death when the Blues striker dragged his sentence on the podium to recover a top scorer trophy which he thwarted.
Argentina could have risen by the leniency of its applause, it has lowered itself by the puerility of its boos.
That they would celebrate the World Cup in the wrong spirit that too, it was written.
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