Two days after their victory in the World Cup final against France, the Argentine champions landed in the early hours of the morning, Tuesday, December 20, at the international airport of Buenos Aires.
The Albiceleste will spend the night in its training center, near the airport, where thousands of supporters who have come to wait for them hope to see them.
The players will then make a big loop around midday in the city center, celebrated by a huge crowd on top of a double-decker bus.
Tuesday has been declared a public holiday by the government.
Leo Messi, captain and emblem of Argentine success in Qatar, was the first to appear at the top of the boarding stairs, brandishing the golden World Cup trophy, to win the red carpet rolled out on the tarmac of the Ezeiza airport.
The Aerolinas Argentinas Airbus A330 bore the inscription "A team, a country, a dream" and on its rear wing are the drawings of Messi or Angel di Maria, the other hero of the final, author of the second goal against France.
The players immediately boarded the white double-decker bus, flocked with three stars and the "campeon del mundo", in which they will be cheered on during their lap of honour.
"Muchachos" resounded in a loop, a sort of unofficial selection anthem sung loudly by the supporters, which summons, in addition to Messi, the memories of Maradona and his parents Don Diego and Dona Tota, but also the war of the 1982 Falklands between Argentina and the United Kingdom.
With AFP
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