How the bars of the City of Buenos Aires prepare for the final

Filled with soccer team banners, The Pennant has two television screens for that “people have hung from the windows to watch the game all together”Valentín said, and in other games where the National Team played, they counted up to “100 people”, although they stopped doing so because “it was impossible” to keep track.

“People came here mainly from the party in Mexico and they began to continue coming because of the cabal”said the young man who also has his: every time the Argentine team scores a goal kisses a particular person whom he took care to name.

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About the festive atmosphere of the place, the waiter said that “The staff also adds to the songs, to the jokes, we all bitch when there is an “off side” or a foul”: “You feel a unity among all,” he said. “That people hug each other between strangers, that foreigners come to see the game in Argentina only… They are one of the anecdotes that I never thought I would be able to tell,” he added.

In the neighborhood of San Telmo and behind the counter of the bar La Poesía was this afternoon Ezequiel Medina, a 33-year-old man in charge of the place, who had to watch all the games at his place of work, which is crossed by albiceleste pennants and where a large screen is placed to broadcast the game with a projector.

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“We all support, we are soccer fans”, expressed to Télam, and told that “everything is respected” in the bar since “people come with their flag, their shirt” and even “the French can come too”. On watching the game while doing tasks, he explained that “At the time of the game there is very little work, but you have a lot before it starts”: “The last 10 minutes before are chaos. Going and coming, going down, bringing things,” he graphed.

To Zai Rojas, heThe manager of the “Locos x el Fútbol” bar finds it difficult to watch the game: “Even though I have so many TVs here, I can never watch it,” he said, in reference to the workload demanded these days since the place “people explode” and even “cut the sidewalk”.

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However, the 36-year-old woman acknowledged that live the World Cup “with a lot of passion” and that to the extent that Argentina “was passing phase”, each game “was lived with more emotion, more anxiety, more despair”.

“Like this world I never saw. The number of people who came this year from all over the place did not happen to me in 2018“, said, for his part, Carlos Sívori, one of the owners of the bar, who wears the Argentina shirt “religiously” whenever the second half of each National Team game begins. And he added: “The passion that the Argentinian has is incredible. It’s something that changes everyone’s mood. There is no more inflation, there are no economic problems: only the world. If we win tomorrow we have 15 days of happiness, then the holidays come and until next year we don’t talk about anything else.”

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The shops are also preparing for the game and many will modify their opening and closing hours, such as the supermarketor Carrefour that will open from 6 to 12; Jumbo, from 7 to 11 and from 17 to 21; and Coto, from 6 to 12.

On Bernardo de Irigoyen avenue and Mayo avenue, the manager of a pasta factory, Julio Oscar Casal (55), told Télam that they will also close the shop before the start of the match because “during the match I don’t know who is going to cook” (she laughs). Although the sale of pasta fell in the local during the worldl, the man considers himself “very fan” and hopes that this Sunday “will give us.”

“Tomorrow I hope the boys come with the Cup because they deserve it. Especially Messi who has been looking for her for years and tomorrow is his last chance. And if it doesn’t happen, I think they’ll forgive it because they did things quite well.”he concluded.