Argentina fans have finally learnt to actually enjoy football

Nacho Z
3 min readDec 16, 2022

For the first time, the Argentina fans don’t care about winning the World Cup final. Ok, pause there, that’s not 100% true, but that’s the vibe the fans transmit. Correction: the Argentina fans don’t care that much about winning the World Cup final.

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For the first time, the Argentina fans don’t care about winning the World Cup final. Ok, pause there, that’s not 100% true, but that’s the vibe the fans transmit. Correction: the Argentina fans don’t care that much about winning the World Cup final.

There’s a total atmosphere of joy in Doha. The fans gather every day, they have barbecues, they jump and sing. They sing even though no one is able to hear them, because the lack of a receiver isn’t a problem, the only thing that matters to them is to be able to deliver a message, to express themselves. Because they can’t ask for more: their team made it all the way to the end, the team gives them hope, and the fans are witnessing the best Messi scenes game by game after having traveled 8,000 miles and having spent a fortune.

The Messi-Maradona-Cristiano-God debate is over. People don’t care who’s the best and they know that 90 minutes of football won’t change things. Messi is big, huge, enormous. He demonstrated that in Brazil, during his 25-year career, even in Russia, and he’s demonstrating it in…

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Nacho Z

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