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“IN ENGLAND IT WAS JUST ANOTHER GAME.” SAFE? 🇦🇷
After the World Cup, many said that mixing Malvinas with football had been unnecessary. That England was simply another rival.
More than a month later, Enzo Fernández was booed in England again. British press presented him as “public enemy number one,” and even the Falklands flag appeared again in the stands.
So maybe it wasn’t “just another game.”
Argentina ended up losing the final and #algopaso in that match, and Enzo was sent off. Did the flag have a sporting cost? It’s debatable and we probably will never be able to prove it.
But it produced something concrete: Malvinas was back on the international agenda, in a conversation that completely went beyond the 90 minutes.
The semifinal ended.
The debate didn’t.
And when an action keeps generating reactions weeks later, it’s because it touched something far deeper than football.
We can debate whether it was correct, ill-timed, or unnecessary.
But saying it “meant nothing” is already pretty hard to defend.
Was it worth the symbolic and sporting cost?
#MalvinasArgentinas #EnzoFernandez
After the World Cup, many said that mixing Malvinas with football had been unnecessary. That England was simply another rival.
More than a month later, Enzo Fernández was booed in England again. British press presented him as “public enemy number one,” and even the Falklands flag appeared again in the stands.
So maybe it wasn’t “just another game.”
Argentina ended up losing the final and #algopaso in that match, and Enzo was sent off. Did the flag have a sporting cost? It’s debatable and we probably will never be able to prove it.
But it produced something concrete: Malvinas was back on the international agenda, in a conversation that completely went beyond the 90 minutes.
The semifinal ended.
The debate didn’t.
And when an action keeps generating reactions weeks later, it’s because it touched something far deeper than football.
We can debate whether it was correct, ill-timed, or unnecessary.
But saying it “meant nothing” is already pretty hard to defend.
Was it worth the symbolic and sporting cost?
#MalvinasArgentinas #EnzoFernandez
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