With a crowded Olympic tour of the pasture where Diego Maradona took his first football steps, in Villa Fiorito, the suburb of Buenos Aires where the world football star was born, Neighbors celebrated Argentina’s consecration as Qatar Soccer World Cup champion.
“How can I explain what I feel if football runs through our veins in this neighborhood”Pancho Torres, a historic bartender at Club Deportivo Estrella Roja, told Télam, where Maradona took his first steps, still playing soccer in a pasture, and which this Sunday was the venue to watch the final.
Moved and “speechless”, entranced by the inexplicable joy of seeing Argentina once again world champion, Pancho only manages to dedicate the victory to Maradona “who guides us from above”, to later melt into a consecratory hug with his teammates. after a dramatic finale.
The Argentine player Gonzalo Montiel converted the last penalty and in an instant the neighborhood of Fiorito, in the southern suburbs of Buenos Aires, was transformed into a popular party, exacerbated, of pure enjoyment.
Neighbors of all ages, dressed in the colors of the albiceleste, went to the Estrella club seconds after the game ended, to Together they take a dusty and crowded Olympic lap through the pasture where Maradona knew how to deploy his first dribbling.
“This team is a pride, they are all little kids who have a tremendous thirst for glory and glory and they took us to the top,” Griselda Alegre, part of the club’s management subcommittee, told Télam.
“People here live it with a lot of passion, soccer is everything to us,” says the woman, a soccer fan since she was a child, and adds: “It’s a huge joy and the Argentine people deserved it.”
“This is all from Messi, who fought and fought and today brings us one more joy,” he says.
