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“I must be the only Dutchman with a tattoo of Messi kissing the world cup,” says Casper Sas (22) who came to Argentina to experience the World Cup and also made a promise: he said that if Messi raised the cup he would tattoo it.
In his TikTok account (Caspersas_) he shows how he fulfills that promise on a stretcher, wearing the National Team shirt while the tattoo artist records the requested image, over another tattoo on his calf, the map of Argentina. His blood is Dutch, but he feels Argentine at heart. In the profile of his Instagram account (@Caspersas) he defines it well “The Argentine is born where he wants”. Casper says he is in love with the country, “the best in the world.”
“When I came to Argentina for the first time in 2017, in Cañada de Gómez in the Province of Santa Fe, my life changed. I came for an exchange for 10 months and I made a lot of friends. With them I learned to speak Spanish. I feel very comfortable here, ”says the young man born in the city of Nijmegen who came to the country when he was finishing high school. A soccer fan, he also fell in love with the mate, the barbecue, the people and the Argentine passion. “Argentina is my country”, he affirms on the networks.
The young man who came to experience the World Cup with his dearest friends in Cañada de Gómez, at the time Infobae called him, was on the Boca field and later went to a barbecue in Fuerte Apache, with other friends who had guest. “We were listening to cumbia in the car,” he described part of his departure more than happy. “I am a Boca fan and through my work I know a lot of people at the club. Some friends of a friend of mine are from here, from Fuerte Apache, and they wanted to show me the neighborhood.”
Casper seems to enjoy cumbia, since in other posts, he showed that he was listening to that genre while driving on a route in Chubut and eating a “milanesa sanguche”.
A post that is not missing in any of his networks is the day that Messi signed his Argentina National Team shirt. It was in 2018 when Barcelona faced a team from the Netherlands. Casper tells that he was standing in front of the bus, in Eindhoven when he saw Messi get off the bus. He called him out and resorted to a lie to get his attention. “Come on, Leo, please, please, I’m from Rosario and I came to see you”. In this way, he got him to come closer and sign him on the Argentine National Team shirt. As if that were not enough, he agreed to Casper’s request: the photo. In the video you can see an elegant Messi in a gray suit with a scarf with the three lines that approaches and signs his chest.
The Messi fan not only managed to record that moment that he considers unique in his life, but also managed to enter, thanks to a friend of his who worked at Barça, the hotel where the team was staying. The moment he meets Messi again, he apologized for having lied to him and told him that he was Dutch. and their history of exchange in Argentina. Far from being offended, Messi started a chat. He came to tell her that he knew Cañada de Gómez, because he has family. He still can’t believe what happened that day.
The Qatar 2022 World Cup in Argentina will never be forgotten. He came to stay for three months and watched all the games with his friends from Cañada de Gómez and he was finally moved, with all the Argentines, before that long-awaited image, Messi raising the cup. “Leo’s dream and my dream came true: Argentina World Champion. Coming after the loss against Arabia, watching 6 incredible games and seeing Leo lifting the cup. Argentina I love you, Argentines I love you, Leo I love you. Dale Campeón LPM”, he wrote on his Instagram account
Having been a Dutchman, during the game against the Netherlands it was not easy. If Argentina were to lose their team, they would have a hard time. Casper left several videos of him on the networks, where he comments having received insults from the Dutch clearly for supporting Argentina and having been treated as a “mufa” by some Argentines to whom he said “What happened? We are in the semi”. His result against his country gave him “inexplicable happiness”, after having suffered a lot.
His return to Argentina was different from his first trip, when he was only 16. Now he has a job Community Manager, where he deals with the contents of Latin America 433, a platform dedicated to soccer, with almost 60 million followers. “I can do everything by phone, because they are Instagram accounts. I can work from wherever I want”. February 21 is the departure date for the Netherlands. But there will be no feelings of nostalgia in Ezeiza, since immediately, in March, he returns to stay and live in the country. It won’t be final, but he wants to stay a long time. It is another dream that he wants to fulfill.
As a Dutchman, he highlighted the five things that Argentine soccer has and Dutch soccer does not. The best fans in the world. The two stars on the chest (he wrote it himself before the game). The colors defended by the two best players in the history of football. The most intense soccer rivalry worldwide. An infiltrator, who is also the queen of the other’s country, ”he wrote on the networks.
After everything he has lived through and having encouraged Argentina, he says in a post: “They won’t let me enter the Netherlands anymore”. He’ll tell you when he gets back.
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