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The artisan who made the 'false' World Cup that Messi raised in Qatar: from the day Maradona called her to the Libertadores for Pope Francis

2023-01-23T09:38:09.348Z


Her name is Eliana Pantano and she made the trophy for the iconic photo that the planet saw in her workshop in Llavallol. After the World Cup boom, she has orders on the waiting list for six months.


In 2016 River played the Recopa against

Independiente de Santa Fe

, one of the many trophies of the

Marcelo Gallardo

era .

Conmebol

still

organized round-trip finals and the

Millionaire

had drawn goalless in the first leg and won 2-1 at the Monumental. Nothing in these lines is new, but it is in the next ones: before the match at the Monumental, no there was a cup for the winner.

From Asunción they contacted

Eliana Pantano

, an artisan specialized in trophies: “You are the best, you have to do it”, they begged her.

A few days later, 

Leonardo Ponzio

he was lifting the trophy that the woman had made against the clock.

Just her, who began to dedicate herself to this type of creations because of the passion that

Boca

generates in her .

A fan of Xeneize, she wanted to have a replica of the Intercontinental in her home.

She also from the Libertadores.

And so she began, with the resin as the core of her works.

Or so it continued: hers is a family dedicated to art and in 1968, long before she was born, her father was in charge of creating, with a technique similar to the one Eliana uses in her glasses, an aquarium in the sports city of Mouth, the unfinished dream of Alberto J. Armando.

With his hands, floats were molded for the carnivals of Corrientes, Gualeguay, Gualeguaychú and even Potro Rodrigo got on one the day he played in Llavallol, where Pantano has his workshop where he works together with his brother, husband and three assistants.

With that lineage he reached the cups, the trophies.

There is a replica of the Copa Libertadores in the Vatican museum:

Marcelo Tinelli

bought one for him and took it as a gift to

Pope Francis

, perhaps the most famous associate of the Raven.

He repaired the original Conmebol cups and even showed the managers a miniature series, pure merchandising.

But in the continental soccer federation one day they went from "you're the best" and ordering the Cup they didn't have, to "you're an artisan and it's not what we're looking for."

A company from Chile took over the business, even with the idea of ​​miniature souvenirs.

She had to remove from her social networks everything that related her to

Conmebol

as part of an agreement between lawyers.

The replica of the Libertadores that the delegation from San Lorenzo took to the Vatican and Pope Francis donated to the museum.

File photo Eliana Pantano

“Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

I say that you never lose, it is my motto”, he says today, without the official merchandising licenses for all the clubs that were once champions of a Conmebol title, including all the Argentine clubs that have ever lifted one of their cups.

Four years later,

Eliana has a six-month waiting list for the star product

: the World Cup replicas.

They are so similar that not even

Lionel Messi could

distinguish them from the real one and his photo with one made in Llavallol is the most viewed in the world.

Before that,

Diego Maradona

had his own and that moment had an impact on her.

Messi and the image that went around the world with the "false cup". Photo: Fernando de la Orden

“There must be thousands of artists who, when they sell a work or when they are recognized, must feel great personal satisfaction.

In my case, in addition to that, what happens to me is that personal dreams come true, due to the fact that I am a fan more than what is and was in football.

So on a personal level

it is very difficult to explain that Maradona wants and receives a product made by me...

The truth that froze me was living a magical moment that I never thought would come.

I give it to him and I tell him: 'in the hands of the true champion' and he picks it up and says: 'my hands touch it again'... In other words, when he says that and touches it as if it were the original cup and He looks at her and says 'oh what a beauty'... It's inexplicable to generate that in an idol.

It is really difficult to explain it in words and today that it is no longer there, even more so, ”he recalls in a chat with

Clarín

.

Eliana's father made a giant fish to house an aquarium inside.

The resin technique is the one she uses in the cups.

Pantano family photo file

-The one who makes the flip flops wrote to Messi and ordered him for everyone, did you write to him?

-I wrote to him, how deluded because they write trillions and trillions of messages and my account is not verified.

The same 18 (December) as soon as he raised the cup on TV, I realized that the cup he had was not the FIFA cup.

The family that traveled hadn't found out until the photographer contacted them, but I knew it at that moment.

At that crazy moment I asked him not to take it the wrong way and I swore that this drink was the one we made.

He is not listed as read, but I did write to him.

How did you get to such a level of detail?

You never saw the original...

-Always for photos and videos.

What I did was look for photos, information on how big the Cup is and capture that measurement on the computer and take the photo to that measurement and gradually take out the differences in proportions of the rest.

The photo of Diego raising it gave me the angle to see the base.

I handled myself with photos and drawing on the computer on a plane.

The different processes of the cup.

Photo: Luciano Thieberger.

-How many world cups did you do?

-I do not have a record of the amount because it is not something that is produced.

Every once in a while a journalist, a player, a company for an event or something like that would come and come with this specific request and it was done.

The reality is that I did not have a control... Currently, neither.

Yes, due to the fact that with this fervor that was generated, I'm making a list with people waiting, putting dates and so on... I wouldn't know how many, but I've done quite a few.

-Any world champion among those who expect one?

-The one that (Alexis) Mac Allister took to his reception at Brighton was made by us.

She makes us very happy that she has decided to take one of ours from the many that they gave her.

Our idea, wish, intention and dream is that everyone, not just him, can hold the glasses we make in their hands.

We are working, hoping and wishing that it could be possible.

The color details on the base painted by hand: it is all handmade.

Photo: Luciano Thieberger

-What challenges come after the boom?

-I'm here for whatever is needed.

In 2020 the Municipality of Lomas de Zamora declared my glasses of cultural interest.

A few days ago they took her to a park so that people could take a picture and again she was all in light blue and white.

The surprise for me was that people came to greet me.

This was a magical story, from my point of view: I started because of my fanaticism and the desire to lift a trophy and 20 years later to get here... I always handled myself in the same way: challenges are presented to me.

Now they contacted me from some soccer museums and they propose things to make this or that player exalt.

Nothing was premeditated and it happened.

Things happen and dreams come true, but I don't have a specific goal.

I think there is no ceiling and it goes as far as it goes.

Source: clarin

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