A Uruguayan journalist asked to encourage Argentina and caused a stir

The Uruguayan journalist Ignatius Chans stirred up the hornet’s nest of his country’s fans with a note published in the newspaper The Observer that divided the waters of the local football world. Without leaving aside his fanaticism for the Charrúas, he asked to support Lio Messi and the team in the Qatar World Cup and argued that, beyond the fact that the Argentines would become “unbearable” to win the Cup, the team “might as well have the light blue shirt”.

The article, under the title “This Argentina is Uruguayan, how can you not support them”, generated support and questioning from Uruguayan fans who divided their comments in favor and against adding their support to the Albiceleste. “There is a lot in this team of Messi, World Cup semifinalist, that should generate sympathy for any sky-blue fan,” Chans said.

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Argentina will go for the dream of playing the World Cup final this Tuesday, at 4:00 p.m., against the Croatian team. In the other key, France will face Morocco, the big surprise of the tournament.

The Uruguayan journalist asked to encourage Argentina: “They seem like an army with a mission”

The article recalled that “it was unfair that Argentina was left out in the quarterfinals against the Netherlands. It is clear, no one lives on merits, and if not ask Brazil, who dominated 100 of 120 minutes against Croatia and went home. But there is something in this World Cup semifinalist Argentina that should generate sympathy for any Uruguayan fan. Get out of your head the slimy of many Buenos Aires fans, or how unbearable they are going to be if they lift the World Cup. If you manage to get that image, you will see a team that could well have a light blue shirt, ”he wrote.

Chans then praised the team after their dramatic victory on penalties against the Netherlands last Saturday after a 2-2 draw. “Look at the conviction of that squad: they look like an army with a mission. Take out the media, which for six months, when the World Cup was raffled, already outlined the path of the albiceleste to the final. Instead, the players preach antimufa, they don’t want anyone to say they are champions. But they are convinced that they can do it. And that they should do it for their leader, ”he argued.

So, the journalist listed. “Look at a squad united like a pineapple, following Messi. To the referents assuming the leading role when they need it: once Dibu Martinez saving penalties, another time Rodri de Paul fighting with his rivals and biting himself to avoid an injury, Lautaro (don’t look at the name, from Buenos Aires like 9 de Julio) Martínez playing with an injured ankle, chewing the anger of losing ownership and defining the game in the last penalty”, he reviewed.

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And he continued: “Otamendi sticking out his chest and fighting from defense. DT Lionel Scaloni obsessed with lowering one’s profile, with not falling for success, with being humble. And with the clarity in the strategy, and the courage, that Diego Alonso (Uruguayan DT, ndr) lacked in the World Cup. He even looks at Marcos Acuña, who if you take the albiceleste out of him, from his face he calmly passes by the side of Rentistas. Or the band led by Nahuel Molina, Ángel Correa or De Paul, who play for Atlético Madrid, the most Uruguayan club in the world after the Uruguayans. I’ll take you to take out Papu Gómez, who almost left Valverde without a World Cup. I don’t celebrate anything for him, ”he said.

“Messi puts the knife between his teeth and goes forward”

For the journalist, “Messi is an alien, he is not comparable to anyone, and from the point of view of the football genius it is difficult for a Uruguayan to put himself in the place of Argentina”.

“But it’s not that hard to empathize with this renewed leadership ability from a guy who was always shy. From this Messi who enters the field with an angry face, what a bench they hit him, that he comes out to defend his teammates. That he celebrates the rival DT in the face because he criticized him in a previous statement. He plays with the urgency of knowing that this is his last chance, he puts the knife between his teeth and goes forward. And on top of that, he plays like no one else in the world, and he is capable of the masterpiece of passing the goal of Argentina’s 1-0 against the Netherlands, ”he continued.

Chans said that “this Argentina is a fighter. She plays and bites. He yells in the face of the rivals after the last penalty, releasing the tension for a game in which the 120 minutes were screwed, and they even got to shoving, in an episode that the judge unbelievably ended with a couple of yellow cards ” .

“You can’t get more Uruguayan”

The Uruguayan journalist also mentioned the friendship that unites Messi with the Uruguayan striker Luis Suárez.

The Argentine team “obviously, they are wrong. He had won it, he was allowed to be in the end, they tied it in an incredible way. He had everything to win calmly, but he suffered the unspeakable. You can’t get more Uruguayan. Look if this Argentina is not going to be a bit Uruguayan, that after the light blue was left out of Qatar Messi said: “Everything that happens to him (Suárez), in good and bad, I am next to him. It was sad the way they were left out.’”

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“It is this same Argentine squad that, after Uruguay was left out against Colombia in the 2021 Copa América with Jerry Mina’s little dance, took revenge on the Colombian as if the affront had been against them. ‘Dance now’, he said the Uruguayan Messiborn on October 8.

By the end, Chans put aside his fanaticism and asked to support the Argentine team, but he clarified: “I’m not going to paint myself as an albiceleste on Tuesday, not even in an eventual final (inverse mufa). And when Uruguay faces them I’m going to want the sky-blue team to score 10 goals for them. But Tuesday I’m going to support them. For the Uruguayans of Argentina”, he concluded.

Uruguayan fans divided around whether or not to support the Argentine team

The article generated support and criticism from readers, in a country where fans usually celebrate the defeats of the Argentine team.

A reader identified as Oscar Gutierrez He was lapidary: “They are just pedants and arrogant. Anywhere in the world they only arouse rejection and contempt, ”he said.

Ricardo Inciarte He went further: “Please, Chans, dedicate yourself to the kitchen. The anti-porteño feeling on this side of the Plata goes back to the Colony (…). Pretending that we shout the goals of Argentina is ridiculous, ”he assured.

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However, others added their support. “Excellent note, Chans. You portrayed very well that ambivalent feeling that many of us share,” said the user. Walter Acosta.

For Luis Fortunato Pacheco Fernandez, the question has to do with identity. “Let’s see. We celebrate Germany’s goals against Brazil. From Germany over Argentina (In the 2014 World Cup) and we have not recognized our identity: Argentines from the Eastern Province”.