That’s how exuberantly the Argentines celebrated their soccer heroes

Argentina’s national team drove in an open-top bus on Tuesday from the grounds of the AFA football association in front of the gates of Buenos Aires in the direction of the capital. President Alberto Fernández had ordered a national holiday for Tuesday so the country could celebrate the victory.

Midfielder Thiago Almada posted a photo of Messi with the trophy on Instagram on the roof of the bus, while Rodrigo de Paul posted a video of the players singing and celebrating. In view of the huge crowd, the bus made slow progress. After about three hours, the World Cup winners had still not reached the city center. Because of the large crowds, the route was also changed: the bus was not supposed to go to the obelisk in the city center after all, where numerous fans had already celebrated the World Cup final victory on penalties against France on Sunday evening.

In the course of the morning, before the celebration in the Argentine capital, there were sometimes chaotic scenes at completely overcrowded train stations and on the trains. The airline Aerolíneas Argentinas also warned of problems with delayed flights due to the traffic chaos. The cell phone networks were also overloaded at times.

Earlier, Messi kept his fans updated with pictures on social media. After arriving in Buenos Aires at night and driving past thousands of fans, Argentina’s superstar took a little break. And the newly crowned world champion wasn’t alone in bed – he had the golden World Cup trophy next to him. The 35-year-old posted three photos on Instagram, in the first he is “sleeping” in bed, his left hand on the trophy, in the second he smiles at the camera with the trophy and in the third he is with a trophy and a mate- see cup. “Good morning!” Messi wrote to the pictures, which received more than 28 million likes just three hours after publication.

In addition, Messi had set a milestone on Instagram. A post by the 35-year-old with photos showing him and the World Cup trophy celebrating after the final received more than 56.2 million likes on the social network by Tuesday morning, and the trend was rising. With this, Messi overtook the post from the account “world_record_egg”, which was previously considered the most liked Instagram post. The photo of an egg was posted on January 4, 2019 with the aim of setting a world record. By Tuesday morning, it had received more than 55.9 million likes.

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