A crowd took to the streets of Santiago del Estero capital tonight to offer a fervent welcome to the world champions in Qatar 2022who will play a friendly celebration against Curaçao this Tuesday at the Único Madre de Ciudades Stadium.
The Argentine national team landed at the Ángel de la Paz Aragonés airport at 9:51 p.m. on a flight from Asunción, where hours before he received a tribute from the conmebol prior to the draw for the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana.
The team led by Lionel Messi He had his first expressions of affection at the very exit of the air station, from which a fenced corridor was diagrammed along Avenida Belgrano Norte towards the center of the city.
The footballers boarded a micro-plot and greeted the fans located along the edges of the avenue, adorned with Argentine flags and posters thanking the creators of the third star.
Most of the fans gathered at the door of the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, located opposite the provincial Government House, about 6 kilometers from the airport. A group of grenadiers entertained them with a performance of the World Cup hit “Muchachos”.
The police cut off the access on Leandro N. Alem street, between the corners of Alvear and Rivadavia, to allow the access of the bus and the descent of the soccer players to the lodging place.
On a pleasant night of 28 degrees, the usual pulse of the capital of Santiago was completely altered by the social phenomenon of the “Scaloneta”, which tomorrow will have its first presentation in the interior of the country after the dreamed Qatari night of December 18 past.
Santiago del Estero lives the most important sporting event in its history, according to the consideration of its own officials, for which the provincial government decided to issue an administrative and educational holiday from 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
The match against Curaçao will begin at 8:30 p.m. but from 1:00 p.m. a Fan Zone will begin to function on the Forum esplanade, where various artists will perform to animate the festive day.
An hour later, in Aguirre Park, some 4 kilometers from the stadium, the “Festival of the family and the Argentine National Team” will begin with shows and gastronomic services to experience the preview and watch the game on a giant screen.
The Estadio Único Madre de Ciudades expanded its capacity to 42,000 seats for this match and the tickets sold out in less than 80 minutes, so thousands of people from Santiago walk the streets hoping to get a ticket on sale.
The National Team will play for the second time on the modern stage of Santiago del Estero but the first time, in June 2021, it did so without an audience due to the sanitary restrictions derived from the pandemic.
The hotel capacity of the capital and its neighbor La Banda was taken one hundred percent and the influx of fans caused a tourist spill to Termas de Río Hondo, 70 kilometers away, which next weekend will host the second date of the MotoGP.
The arrival of the world champions attracted fans from San Juan, Mendoza, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario, Misiones, Chaco, Corrientes and all of northern Argentina.
The local government assigned some 3,500 police officers for the security operation, which will guard the entrances to the stadium, the Forum, the hotel and the transfers of the National Team.
Source: Ambito
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