Not by remote, Bangladesh It is a country far away from Argentina. Far from being whimsical, the statement is based on the devotion that football fans from those latitudes expressed by the Lionel Scaloni National Team.
As examples, different expressions reflected, mainly, from the World Cup in Qatar to this part are enough. Of course, without leaving aside the last one of all. The one recorded in the early morning hours, on this side of the world, and the early morning hours in Southeast Asia.
There were several videos that spread on social networks about the celebrations in that country for the obtaining the Copa América by the Argentine team. But one particularly draws attention to the euphoria of the protagonists.
The images, according to the description of the publication of a user of Xwere taken at Daffodil International University, located in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital.
It shows the moment after the goal scored by Lautaro Martínez and which, in the end, meant the sixteenth consecration at continental level for Argentina, and the fourth consecutive with Scaloni as coach.
In front of a huge screen, and many of them wrapped in white and light blue t-shirts and flags, the fans of Lio Messi and his team get on stage to unleash madness, while the night’s scorer hugs his teammates, kilometers of distance.
Another video gives a sample of what was happening in the streets, packed with fans of the Argentine National Team and also in front of a giant screen.
It is not the first time that that distant country reflects absolute love for the Argentine National Team. It is a feeling that began to be forged in Mexico ’86, when the Bangladeshis adopted as their own the victory of the team led by Diego Maradona against an England that they looked askance at due to an old conflict, which deepened during Qatar 2022 and which achieved a new peak of effusiveness during the new albiceleste conquest in the Copa América.
The devotion that Bangladesh had for Argentina is such that it motivated the rebirth of bilateral relations that had been frozen for many years.
In December 2022, two days after the third world title for the Albiceleste, Sadia Faizunnesa, ambassador of Bangladesh in Brazil and who serves as diplomatic authority for Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile, had admitted that she dreamed of having the national team and , especially, their captain, playing a game on their land.
That ultimately did not materialize, but the one who made a fleeting visit was Emiliano ‘Dibu’ Martínez. The Golden Glove in Qatar 2022 and also in this Copa América that has just ended came from Amsterdam in July 2023 to participate in several promotional events where he was able to interact with about 200 fans before meeting with the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina .