What was it like in the Copa América, while training the Argentine National Team

Donald Trumpformer president of the USA and Republican candidate for the next elections, was the victim of an attack during a campaign event in Pennsylvania. Two thousand kilometers away, in Miamiin a bubble foreign to everything linked to local politics, the Argentine National Team completes his last training session before the final of the America Cup contra Colombia.

At the entrances to the facilities of the Florida International University (FIU)where the soccer fields are located soccer where the Scaloneta practices, a crowd that dreams of seeing up close Messi and company is also unaware of the episode that could have cost Trump his life and left all levels of American society in a state of shock.

If in these weeks there was the feeling that the rest of the USA I was not so aware of the America Cupit has now become clear that the Latin community and soccer fans are more aware of the match between Argentina and Colombia than what may happen in the dispute that divides the followers between the Republican leader and the current president, Joe Biden.

In the practice directed by Scaloni, Di María spoke with Messi, Lo Celso ran alongside Otamendi and De Paul received charges for his new “platinum” look when the cell phones of the journalists (and photographers) present at the training began to receive images of a bloodied Trump. Surprise, shock and adrenaline, more typical of the job than of tension.

Unlike what the movies show, the security personnel present at the FIU seemed not to take note of what happened and remained, con laughed professionalmore concerned with preventing some cholulo from infiltrating and having contact with the National Team rather than with what could happen to the democracy of their country.

A while later, inside an Argentine-owned restaurant, only the television talked about Trump. The diners, almost all Argentinian, seemed to be more aware of the price of the dollar in Argentina or the possibility of getting a ticket at resale.

Meanwhile, among those sent to cover the Copa América, questions began to fly over, still without answers: will the Conmebol Will you have any kind of reaction after what happened with Trump? Can the security operation change anything for Sunday’s game at Hard Rock Stadium? Is the Copa América final at risk?

At the same time, in another corner of Miami, more precisely at the “fan fest” where the flag-waving took place to encourage the Argentine National Team, there was no talk of Trump either. With shirt number 10 and captain’s ribbon, the president of Conmebol, Alejandro Dominguezhad fun playing a game with senior stars.