“Muchachos, we can dream again…” the hit music that accompanied Argentina on their conquest of the 2022 World Cup has discovered deep resonance in a rustic determined for a feel-good second.  “Muchachos”, which interprets as “guys,” was Number 1 on Spotify in Argentina Tuesday with greater than half-a-million performs, and was heard on repeat in central Buenos Aires the place enormous crowds of followers gathered to welcome the victorious staff. The catchy tune, which alludes to deceased Argentine famous person Diego Maradona trying down from heaven on modern-day hero Lionel Messi, had additionally reverberated by way of the stadiums of Qatar — belted out by supporters with patriotic fervor.

The music by fusion rock, ska and salsa band La Mosca Tse-Tse first got here out in 2003, and initially contained the lyrics: “Muchachos, tonight I’m going to get drunk.”

It was later tailored, and adopted, by soccer membership followers — amongst them 30-year-old trainer Fernando Romero.

Romero this 12 months rewrote the lyrics and devoted them to the Albiceleste nationwide staff. His model quickly went viral.

“What is happening is so crazy, so great that it makes you dizzy,” Romero advised Argentine media throughout the World Cup marketing campaign.

“It started at home one day when I was cooking, I started to get emotional on my own, just thinking about it, I wrote it on my phone, and it stuck.”

The new lyrics begin “I was born in Argentina, the land of Diego and Lionel, of the boys of the Falklands whom I will never forget.”

It laments all of the finals the staff has misplaced and sings of a well-known victory over Brazil within the 2021 Copa America that allowed Argentina to dream of a 3rd World Cup — which the staff went on to say in Qatar.

‘An explosion of emotions’
“The song is huge!” stated 19-year-old Nicolas Arias, among the many throngs celebrating within the capital.

“It describes my country well, my people. It has an emotional side, it is creative, it is an explosion of feelings. It is complete, awesome!” raved the teenager.

Pablo Mendoza, who got here to Buenos Aires together with his spouse from La Plata some 60 kilometers (35 miles) away, stated for him, the music “represents everything. It speaks of Diego, of the Argentine soldiers of the Falklands… Look!” he stated as he confirmed off a tattoo on his leg of the archipelago on the heart of a 1982 warfare with Britain.

For Romero, the music was meant as one thing “to encourage the players, to make them feel proud to be Argentinian.”

Encourage them it did, as Messi and his staff fervently sang “Muchachos” on their match bus or within the altering rooms, to Romero’s everlasting satisfaction.

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