Big crowds welcome Argentina group dwelling after World Cup victory | World Cup Information

Hundreds line up in the course of the evening to get a glimpse of the group that gained one of many biggest World Cup finals of all time.

Hundreds of followers have lined up in the course of the evening to attempt to get a glimpse of the Argentina soccer group that gained one of many biggest World Cup finals of all time.

The airplane transporting the World Cup winners and their captain Lionel Messi again from Qatar arrived on the Ezeiza worldwide airport in Buenos Aires at 2:40am native time (05:40 GMT) on Tuesday.

Having crushed France in Sunday’s thrilling ultimate, the gamers will now spend the evening on the Argentine Soccer Affiliation (AFA) coaching complicated close to the airport.

They may then start a tour of the Buenos Aires metropolis centre from noon on Tuesday with thousands and thousands anticipated out within the streets on what President Alberto Fernández declared a nationwide vacation.

Messi, who scored twice in the final, was the primary participant to emerge from the airplane, holding the World Cup aloft, with coach Lionel Scaloni proper behind him as they walked previous an indication that learn, “Thanks, champions.”

Ahead Julian Alvarez, a revelation in Qatar together with his 4 targets, was one of many subsequent gamers to emerge, alongside the person whose place he took within the group, Lautaro Martinez, who was carrying a drum.

Nicolás Tagliafico posted a photograph of the World Cup buckled into an airplane seat as if it had been simply one other passenger.

🏆✈️🇦🇷😁 pic.twitter.com/YlKoGjoTSn

— Nico Tagliafico (@nico_taglia) December 19, 2022

An image of Messi was emblazoned on the airplane’s tail with the phrases: “One group, One nation, One dream” on its facet.

The gamers had been welcomed by rock band La Mosca singing Muchachos, a tune that was written by a fan to the tune of an previous tune by the band and have become a well-liked unofficial anthem for Argentina followers on the World Cup in Qatar.

The newly topped champions of the world boarded an open-top bus and sang alongside whereas they waited for everybody to get on, earlier than heading to the AFA headquarters.

The bus moved at a snail’s tempo as followers, lots of whom had been waving Argentina flags, swarmed the bus on a freeway, looking forward to a glimpse of the gamers as legislation enforcement officers tried to maintain them at bay.

The gamers will sleep at AFA headquarters for a number of hours earlier than in a while Tuesday heading to the Obelisk, the enduring Buenos Aires landmark that was a sea of individuals on Sunday afternoon after the group gained the nation’s third World Cup, its first since 1986, shattering France’s dream of back-to-back triumphs.

With seven targets in Qatar 2022, Messi additionally got here second within the event’s high scorer’s checklist, behind France’s Kylian Mbappe.