Every World Cup historically has its own soundtrack which is usually the official anthem of the event, i.e. World Cup Qatar 2022 but they are exceptions. Accompanying musically the first world championship held in winter was above all”muchachos”, that is, the song of the fans ofArgentina which this month resounded continuously in the streets of Doha and also reached the locker room of the team led by Scaloni.
O choir is an adaptation of the song”Muchachos, Esta Noche Me Emborracho” by the Argentine group La Mosca Tse-Tse (known in Italy at the end of the last millennium for the song “Para no verte mas” from 1999). And this chant, which long ago became a stadium choir, turned into aunofficial national anthem of Argentina and Qatar he reached the final and now hopes to bring the World Cup back to his homeland, 36 years after the last time. And it is no coincidence that this song is inspired by the two great Diez, the current Leo Messi and Diego Armando Maradona at the time, and also has references to the Malvinas war and the finals lost by the Argentine national team between 1986 and 2022.
Muchachos’ text: Argentina’s anthem at the Qatar 2022 World Cup
The Spanish version:
“He was born in Argentina, land of Diego and Lionel / of the children of the Malvinas that I’ve never forgotten / I can’t explain, because he didn’t understand / the finals we lost, cuántos años las lloré / But that’s why he ended up in Maracanã / la in the final with the brazucas he returned to win papa / Muchachos, now we turn to illusion / I want to win the third, I want to be world champion / And we can see Diego in the sky / with Don Diego and with Tota, encouraging Lionel” .
The translation into Italian:
“I was born in Argentina, land of Diego and Lionel / of the Malvinas boys that I will never forget / I can’t explain to you because you won’t understand / the finals we lost, how many years I cried for them / But it ended because in Maracanã / the final with the brazucas was won again by daddy / Boys, now we’re excited again / I want to win the tri, I want to be world champion / And we can see Diego in the sky / with Don Diego and La Tota cheering for Lionel”.
From Maradona and Messi to the Falklands War: the meaning and references of “Muchachos”
Analyzing the text of the Argentine fans’ song, in fact, it is easy to understand how full of historical references to football and beyond. 🇧🇷I was born in Argentina, the land of Diego and Lionel. From the Malvinas boys that I will never forget“, in fact, reads the first verse in which the reference, on the one hand, is to the two great idols of football in the country, Maradona and Messi, on the other hand, to the Argentine soldiers who died in the war against Great Britain in the early eighties by the Malvinas Islands (the name Malvinas are called in South America).
Then we moved on to despair over the many finals lost and that curse that accompanied Argentine football to never win an international title from 1993 onwards until the redemption that took place in the 2021 Copa América against rival Brazil in its symbolic stadium, Maracanã. Between the two continental matches, he won an endless series of lost finals (and tears shed by the Alviceleste crowd): in the 2004 Copa América and in the 2007 Copa América in which both times he had to surrender to the hated green and gold, in the 2014 World Cup against Germany or the two lost finals against Chile in Copa America in 2015 and 2016.
However, the curse was broken in 2021 and now Argentine fans are hoping that this will happen even in the most prestigious football competition. And that’s why the song continues with an exhaustive “Guys, now we’ve deceived ourselves again, I want to win the Third, I want to be world champion. And we can see Diego from the sky, with Don Diego and Tota pushing Lionel“With the memory of Maradona and his parents who are rooting from above for Leo Messi to lead Argentina to the conquest of what would be his third world championship.
Source: Fan Page IT
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