01/12/2022
🚨DID YOU KNOW: This is not Rosario, not Buenos Aires, not any Argentine city. 🤯
It's in Bangladesh, a country with nearly 170 million population. Every time Argentina plays, thousands of people gather in the streets to watch them play. Even on the news, a presenter was seen with an Argentine shirt just before the first match vs Saudi Arabia. 😳
They say that in all of this, a lot has to do with Diego Armando Maradona's team. Bangladesh was an English colony in the 1940s. 👀
Although Bangladesh was already independent by 1986, the English influence in the country was still maintained. Argentina vs England's World Cup victory in Mexico was seen as a victory of their own for Bangladesh, who saw how it was possible that a non-European country could beat England. From there, the fanaticism for Argentina was born, which has sustained all these years. In fact, according to reports, most tickets sold for Bangladesh were for Argentina matches. And in the streets of the country, thousands celebrated the victory vs Mexico. 🔥
How football can unite two distant cultures that have nothing to do with it. Don't try to figure it out. 🇧🇩🇦🇷❤️