The
Argentine Football Association
paid a
religious and controversial tribute to Lionel Messi
a month after the consecration with the Argentine team in the
Qatar 2022 World Cup
, where the albiceleste managed to lift the trophy for the third time in its history.
When Lionel Scaloni's team sealed their ticket to the 22nd of the most important tournament in the soccer universe, Argentine fans began to
"choose to believe"
.
Believing in the team, believing in the coach, believing in his emblem, the 10. The one who was permanently designated as the second great God of Argentine soccer, along with Diego Maradona.
Flags, memes and endless demonstrations gave them both that place from the stands.
"I believe in God the Father, Almighty," begins the video that pretends to reflect the Sistine Chapel.
Where God and Jesus Christ meet between clouds.
With the captain in Mexico 86 indicated by the celestial being of soccer and that of Qatar as his "only son".
The
absolute Christianization
of the two most important Argentine soccer players 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...", the video continues, and reflects Doña Tota and Don Diego as the other two links in the "Holy Trinity" that gave rise to the
"Messias"
.
Although some consider the numbers 10 as soccer gods, the Creed, a prayer used in off-screen to accompany the digital animation, is not the only discourse for religious or soccer 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, he was crucified, died and was buried, he descended into hell, on the third day he rose from the dead", is the fragment to illustrate the sporting "death" of the Paris Saint Germain star for not having achieved being a champion with the National Team from his debut in 2005 until 2021, when he won the Copa América, his first title.
His resurrection
of him.
"He ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father, Almighty," the video continues, already in the glorious stage of Rosario in Doha, at the Lusail stadium, as he said so many times, for God to give him the Cup.
"From there he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and eternal life", the animation begins to close. , while reading in white letters, on a drawing of Messi sanctified,
"we choose to believe in the only one who does not believe it"
.
Claudio "Chiqui" Tapia, president of AFA, is a religious man who, since the triumph in the Maracaná, paraded the continental and global trophies through sites linked to faith such as the Basilica of Luján and the Difunta Correa, in San Juan.
Messi doesn't believe it and football sometimes has to do with the faith that the team will be victorious.
And this Selection, particularly, united and did not divide or segment.
The video produced by the AFA seems to go in the opposite direction.
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