2024-07-15 16:15:34
The euphoria over the Argentine national team’s second continental championship crossed all borders. From Miami, the celebrations multiplied in every corner of the world where the beat is felt. feeling for the albiceleste shirt. This is how the Escaloneta triumph over the Colombian team in the Copa América final was experienced Bangladesh, Indonesia and Buenos Aires.
As soon as the match against Colombia ended, the Argentine fans took to the streets of Miami Beach to celebrate the new title. Among the crowd, a young man unfurled a flag with the images of Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona in their version of “saints”.
The craze for the stepladder crossed the Pacific Ocean and reached Ternate, a small city in the Indonesian province of North Maluku. There, a group of people dressed in blue and white and took to the streets to celebrate the new title for the Argentine national team, as recorded by the AFP agency.
In Buenos Aires, Thousands of people came to the Obelisco in Buenos Aires and the main squares of each province –despite the winter cold– to celebrate the new triumph of the National Team. The celebrations in the City of Buenos Aires were marred by some incidents reported early Monday morningwhich left six people arrested.
In Bangladesh, the transmission of the Copa America final It started at six in the morning, but that was no impediment for the fans of the Argentine national team to gather watch the game on a giant screen.
Just like it happened during the 2022 World CupBangladesh also celebrated the Albiceleste victory as their own. Nehal Abedin Tonmay, a Bangladeshi Spanish translator, told Radio Nacional on Monday that on Sunday ““Almost all the buildings had the Argentine flag on their roofs.”
Why Bangladesh loves the Argentine national team
To understand what is happening in Bangladesh, we must go back to 1942, when the Battle of Singapore took place, which left the English in a difficult situation with respect to Japan, they explained in a video uploaded to the TikTok account “Cultura Soportable”, managed by Argentine archaeologist Rocío Goncalves and Dominican historian Blanca Mejía Nina.
At that time, Winston Churchill, the British minister, cut off supplies to the people of Bangladesh, as they believed that they might collaborate with Japan in their dispute. This blockade caused the “Bengal Famine” in 1943, which is estimated to have left around 1.5 million dead.
More than forty years after that conflict, the wound was still latent in the Bangladeshi people. That is why, In 1986, they considered it a “poetic revenge” that Argentina, a country where the Falklands War left an indelible mark, eliminated England from the World Cup in Mexico in the quarter-finals, with the two goals by Maradona that would go down in history: the “Goal of the Century” and the iconic “Hand of God”. That afternoon, the Bangladeshis They found an idol in Maradona and a second homeland in Argentina.