• Analysis Is Messi the best in history?

The massive party to celebrate Argentina's world title left several

dozen injured and detained in the celebration that brought together five million people on the streets of Buenos Aires on Tuesday

and which ended with the players of the albiceleste flying over the capital in a helicopter against the impossibility of continuing your tour in the open-top bus.

The newspaper

La Nación

reported at 5:00 p.m. (Argentine time) that there were 31 injured (16 taken to hospitals) and nine detainees.

However, as the hours passed, the level of violence increased according to

Clarín

.

At the end of the celebration,

about twenty firefighters and police officers were injured while trying to dislodge the Obelisk

.

The fans confronted the security forces with stones and bottles and at least

14 were arrested

.

The Albiceleste team and the coaching staff began the celebration tour at noon (local time) in a caravan to share the title with the fans.

Lionel Messi

was smiling in the back seat of an open top bus, shoulder to shoulder with

Rodrigo De Paul

and

Ángel Di María.

On his lap, a

traveler

, plastic soda bottle cut in half and its edges melted and smoothed by a lighter.

Inside the

traveler

, alcohol, quickly depleted at the end of a very long trip that had begun early Monday morning in Doha and would end, Tuesday afternoon,

with the entire Argentine soccer team flying over Buenos Aires in helicopters.

.

There was no other way.

The popular fervor in the most gigantic party in Argentine history made the bus route through the streets of the city unfeasible.

With 16 million inhabitants, Buenos Aires is one of the 20 largest urban conglomerates in the world, and of those 16, it is estimated that five million took to the streets in the biggest popular celebration that has ever taken place after winning a Cup of the world.

On a Tuesday declared a holiday at the last moment

, there was no space for the bus to advance on its journey from Ezeiza to the center of Buenos Aires, some 37 kilometers away.

"Messi is everything to me, everything!" Shouted a young woman in the middle of Avenida 9 de Julio, in the center of which stands

the 67-meter Obelisk, the place with the highest concentration of the day and where the selection should be especially celebrated

.

"I tattoo all of Messi, everything!" Shouted a friend of the former, imbued with the spirit of unbridled joy that has settled in Argentina in recent days, a novelty and a liberation for a country that lives in crisis in crisis.

Lack of organization

The Argentine party had unique characteristics, because it

was practically self-managed and with little intervention from the public powers

.

It was enough that the Argentine Football Association (AFA) announced after the victory against France that it would be held in the streets of Buenos Aires on Tuesday, for people to call for themselves.

And since the national government (Peronist) and that of the city of Buenos Aires (opposition) practically do not speak to each other, nobody bothered to think of routes, fences and a scheme for the celebration.

A plan that, if it had existed, might not have worked either: the force of the people was overwhelming, they were the owners of the public space this Tuesday.

"They do not let us get to greet all the people who were in the Obelisk, the same security organizations that escorted us, do not allow us to move forward," criticized Claudio Tapia, president of the AFA

, on social networks, announcing the abrupt end of a caravan that almost did not exist.

The criticism was directed at the Federal Police, which depends on the national government, with which the AFA maintains a bad relationship.

That tension had been noticed in the previous hours, in feverish efforts for Messi and the rest of the team to visit the Casa Rosada.

The players refused at all times to see President Alberto Fernández,

quite a contrast to what happened 36 years ago, after the Mexico 86 title, between Diego Maradona and Raúl Alfonsín.

In the midst of such organizational chaos, two man-men threw themselves from a bridge with the intention of landing on the national team bus as it passed under it, one achieved its goal and the other fell into the void.

In addition,

another person died when falling from a roof.

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