Lionel Scaloni characterized as a hero and a text with political connotations. These two topics stand out in the official video with which the Argentine National Team anticipated this Sunday the Copa América dispute, where it will go to conquer its sixteenth star of the oldest national team tournament in the world. It will be in the United States and, in a play on words, he highlighted that it is necessary to all be “united” to try to add one more title to this positive streak of the Albiceleste.
The story is crossed by the patriotic weeks that Argentina celebrates at this time. “More than 200 years ago, we united and became independent. And thus began the history of one of the best countries in the world…”says the announcer while images from those years are reviewed.
“And who would have thought that 200 years later, someone who came from such a small town would create such a great union”highlights the video, at the moment when Scaloni appears, leaning on a bench of substitutes, dressed in the jacket and insignia that army generals usually wore.
The football winks did not stop there, because the comparisons immediately arrived, in which there is also a political overtone. “Uniting those on the left with those on the right; those in the center with the extremes; those in the countryside with those in the town,” he outlined in the first part where images of Gio Lo Celso and Nahuel Molina, Cuti Romero and Nico González, among others.
“We united the bank with those who needed credit”he then reaffirms, pointing to Scaloni with Thiago Almada and Valentin Carbonitwo of the exponents of the next generation of the Albiceleste.
Then he moved on to the Scaloneta references. “We unite the general (Otamendi) with the captain (Messi); the one who draws (Mac Allister) with ‘El Dibu’ (Martínez); the bull (Lautaro Martínez) with the spider (Julián Álvarez); the egg (Acuña) with noodle (Di María); we unite the engine (De Paul) with the steering wheel (Enzo Fernández); and proud of being a country of open doors, we unite the Interior with those who come from outside”; he closes that part, with Alejandro Garnacho as the protagonist, who, due to his mother’s nationality, chose to be Argentine.
“In Argentina, everything good happens when we unite. That is why today, we are more united than ever in the United States”ended the spot published in the official accounts of the Argentine National Team.
