As long as the Berlin Wall (daily newspaper Junge Welt)

A beautiful good morning! 2021 was an unforgettable year for Argentine sport in team sports. The highlights were the men’s Copa America (American championship), the Olympic Games in Tokyo and the men’s Futsal World Cup in Lithuania.

The preamble for what followed was the Copa América, which was supposed to take place in Argentina and Colombia, but then moved to corona-torn Brazil in winter, of all places, where it finally came to the dream final, in which Argentina won against hopeless hosts in the legendary Maracanã and one 28 year title drought ended. To be able to classify this period of time: The Berlin Wall stood for just as long. Millions of Argentinian children and adolescents saw their Selección win a title for the first time in their lives.

The Argentines had one of the worst years in their history – fifty percent poor, the state insolvent and then also …

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