Lionel Messi and La Albiceleste are now back home in Argentina and they were met with massive celebrations, including a parade in their honor. The World Cup champions also took part in the parade, but things did not go as planned.
Millions of jubilant fans turned out to welcome home Argentina's World Cup winners led by Lionel Messi, but most were left disappointed when an open-top bus parade had to be abandoned.
let s now speak to tancredi palmeri, a sports commentator joining us live from doha in qatar. was from doha in qatar. an unforgettable night of football, was an unforgettable night of football, so i suppose instead of who greatest player of all, what is the greatest world cup in august model what i like to be there? you can probably ship to the discussion as to whether this was the greatest game ever. in the past century, italy, germany, at the semi final of mexico 1970, that deserved that title that is outside of the mexico city stadium, signs here will display the match of the century, where we can say this was the match of the 21st century. i was there, and i have to tell you, up until minutes 78 it was the worst final avatar. laughs.
and we re proud of our team. it was incredible, incredible, a lot of emotion, and we cried, we cried, we cried! this is a huge performance in the world cup history, but it is much more than just football. this is a moment of much needed collective joy across africa and the arab world. for the first time, a team makes it to the semi finals in the world cup. morocco stays, and so do the fans. many told me they they ve changed their ticket every time morocco won, and they ll have to change it again to witness another historic match for their team. tancredi palmeri is a sports commentator who is in doha and he gave his reaction to the games. well, once again, this is the curse of penalties landing