Argentina is clear that Argentina had to give away Argentina’s fourth World Cup. And no one in Argentina is very clear why.

“Let’s forget about everything. Let’s just play. Let’s just think about playing, people”

With these words Leo Messi tried to raise the morale of his teammates before taking the Met Life Stadium field on July 19. In the scene you can see Enzo Fernández crying and Lisandro Martínez also congested. The video cuts off.

It is, probably, the first video that begins to unleash the madness. The first one after Spain’s victory against Argentina to proclaim herself as World Champion is used to begin to suspect that something has happened, that something strange has escaped us.

That the World Cup final is rigged. Why, by whom and how is something for which no one has an answer. What is certain is that some Argentine fans, YouTubers and certain press have combusted.

“There is no doubt, they gave him the order to lose”

“There is no doubt that the Argentine National Team was given the order that it had to lose. As a psychologist, I am trained to see and hear what was not said. And in Sunday’s game I saw strange things. They treated us like fools and put on a show”

This time the words are an Argentine fan who claims to be a psychologist, an expert in gestural language and “not to talk about conspiracy theories.” He does not understand that “strange injuries” occurred or the approach and changes of Lionel Scaloni, Argentine coach.

The reason for this fan was clear: Fifa had to crown a 19-year-old world champion (Lamine Yamal) because that sells more than a champion Argentina “with a Messi who has already earned money and who is coming to an end.”

The idea that Argentina could not win this World Cup because it played with Messi is somewhat funny because it has its counterpart in all the theories that pointed out that, precisely, Argentina had to win because it was Messi’s last World Cupthe best story for a competition that has shone for its individuality and for its own American commercialism.

What we can praise about the previous video is the calmness with which the fan speaks. “I have no proof but I also have no doubt that they sent us to die in the final”assures this other fan who links the final lost by Argentina with the end of Italy 90a competition in which Argentina lost against West Germany when it arrived as World champion after Mexico 86.

Of that match, Diego Armando Maradona said that Grondona, then president of the AFA (Argentine Football Association), had already warned them that they had no chance of winning the final because the designated referee was Mexican. “We were dedicated,” Maradona repeated in this interview.

Comparisons with that final have been repeated for the obvious bridges that can be built between both games: Argentina competing against a European team after becoming champion and its star playing, supposedly, his last game with the national team (Maradona would return for United States ’94).

But the accusations of fixing have been growing and slowly getting out of hand:

“Everything that was predicted on the cover of The Economist magazine came true. We live in a simulation, everything is timed. I don’t know if they have a time machine. If they also know how to manipulate the energy of the mind worldwide so that what they want to happen happens…”

For example this video from another fan in which he proposes “we continue feigning dementia, accepting that everything is written and we live in a simulation.”

For this other fanit is clear that “they were squeezed” because there were snipers in the stadium. Reasons are not known but This talk show does put them on the table: It was all a plan by Florentino Pérez, Atlético de Madrid, Giani Infantino, Donald Trump and the United Kingdom. The basis on which this theory is based is that Argentine players who play in Europe were threatened with losing the final.

“They robbed us again (…) they turned us around and the best player told his teammates. The guy who headbutted England (Lautaro Martínez, who did not play in the final), the most important goal from the hand of God or the greatest goal in history (the two that Diego Armando Maradona scored against England in Mexico 86)… was he banned from playing? (…) No one will ever tell the secrets of football. Neither Messi nor Chiqui Tapia (president of the AFA). Do you know why? Because they were squeezed. And this is going to cost me dearly. Yesterday they squeezed Argentina like with the Malvinas, like with wealth, like the hectares sold in Bariloche. Yesterday it was sold to the Argentine team and it was not sold by the Argentines, nor by Chiqui Tapia, nor by Messi, nor by Scaloni, nor by the players. Because we put ‘the Malvinas are Argentine’ on a flag that two Argentine blacks took who if they weren’t footballers they would have to leave their lives in the Malvinas. Let them tell it to me however they want

One of the ideas that has been repeated the most in recent days is that Argentina lost because the designated referee was European. A decision that had its controversy before the final (It was even rumored that an Iranian referee would whistle the match)

However, in this other gathering Another reason was pointed out why Argentina would have had to let itself lose. Eduardo Feinmann, well-known journalist in the country for his controversial interventions on politicsrejected the idea floated by one of the members that Argentina had sold the final in exchange for the FBI not arresting Chiqui Tapia. And the AFA is being investigated for an alleged diversion of money to two associations that operated in the United States.

And an unexpected boycott

The state of hysteria around the party has reached the point of calling for a boycott of the concerts that Rosalía has scheduled starting August 1 in Buenos Aires. He has even been insulted in some streaming programs.

The reason is that the singer shared a post by Mia Khalifaa well-known pornographic film actress, in which a Spanish song played while she looked out the window and read “what life sounds like now that ‘the pearls’ have been defeated”accompanied by some Spanish flags.

Khalifa, who has been seen in some World Cup matches, is Lebanese and has long published content in which she defends Palestine and denounces the genocide perpetrated by Israel. In fact, was fired from Playboy magazine for his comments on the conflict. “Supporting Palestine has caused me to lose business opportunities but I would say I am angrier for not realizing I was doing business with Zionists,” published in X.

The actress’s publication about the World Cup final takes on special relevance because the parallel final that has been played between Palestine and Israel in this World Cup. And Argentina is the seventh nation with the most Jews among its ranks and Javier Milei, the country’s president, has repeatedly defended Israel in its attacks against Palestine. He has even gone so far as to assure that will convert to judaism and? will move the Argentine embassy to Jerusalem.

This alternative ending has even been defended by the authorities of the Palestinian and Israeli states, in a crossroads of tweets in X where it was made clear who they supported on each side. And it is that in the Gaza Strip there is “banking” to the Spanish team since before the final.

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