World: businesses closed, matches broadcast at school… Argentina vibrates for Messi and the Albiceleste

Javier, 18, has sweaty palms. Not because of the stifling heat, nor the five against five he has just played on a synthetic football pitch in the middle of the afternoon in Buenos Aires, this Wednesday, December 7. But because it evokes the quarter-final against the Netherlands. “I feel nervous. They have a high level, they are fast, ”articulates this gardener, wiping his palms on his shorts.