The Argentina national team returns after the World Cup (video editing: Nir Chen)
More than two weeks have passed since the World Cup final, and in Argentina they refuse to go down to the ground.
After leading the team to an unforgettable victory, Lionel Messi rose to the status of a god in the country, and further evidence of this can be obtained from the following statistic: since the victory, there has been an increase of no less than 700 percent in the number of babies named "Lionel" or "Lionella" in the flea's hometown Rosario and the surrounding area (compared to previous months).
Yes, you read that right.
In fact, one out of seven babies born in Santa Fe County during the month of December (remember - the final was held on December 18) was named Lionel (white) or Leonella (daughter).
A similar effect, by the way, was recorded after Diego Maradona led the Albiceleste to victory in the 1986 World Cup. In the year and a half preceding that World Cup, there was a 1% chance that a baby born in Argentina would be named Diego.
The week of the final, that number grew to 5.5%, before falling back to the average about six months after the win.
A whole country does not want to go down.
Messi (Photo: Reuters)
It should be noted that in 2014, it was reported in Argentina about a new law passed in Rosario, according to which parents are not allowed to call their son by the first name "Messi", because according to the municipality, it is only a family name.
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