Argentina’s national team coach Lionel Scaloni is fresh from a resounding success in the World Cup that brought joy to a country buffeted by skyrocketing inflation and institutional fragility. But his contract expiring on December 31, and its renewal has not yet been officially confirmed. After celebrating Argentina’s …
“Football and politics don’t mix,” said the spokeswoman for the Presidency, Gabriela Cerruti, on December 15th, after she was asked by the press if president Alberto Fernández would travel to the Lusail Stadium in Qatar to watch the final between Argentina and France. She didn’t know she would …
With a Fernet in one hand and the World Cup in the other, after a month of pressure, the national team paraded across Buenos Aires to celebrate with millions on the streets. Despite dreaming of becoming world champions for most of their lives, little did the players know …
The record-breaking gatherings in the streets of Buenos Aires have shown what an emotional moment Argentina’s World Cup victory is. But if it was heartfelt on the streets of Buenos Aires, it pales in comparison to the reactions of the team. From the locker room to the plane …
These days, streets in Argentina are a mobile party. It’s hard to spot kids wearing regular shirts instead of Messi’s, or even engage in conversations that aren’t about coach Lionel Scaloni’s decisions or the latest Rodrigo De Paul videos.
Among the thousands of photographs taken during the festivities surrounding the center of Buenos Aires on Saturday afternoon, following Argentina’s heart-stopping World Cup victory, perhaps the most breathtaking were aerial drone shots of the Obelisk taken from hundreds of meters up in the evening sky. There, you could …
