Buenos Aires: Millions took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Tuesday to try to get a glimpse of Lionel Messi and the national football team that won the World Cup as they paraded through the capital in a historic display of popular support.Information Guide Nigeria
According to gulfnews, Messi and his teammates from the Argentina national team traveled on an open-top bus waving at jubilant fans on the sides of the highway heading to Buenos Aires from their training ground on the outskirts of the city. The team is inching its way through the crowd to try to reach downtown.
Clarin newspaper estimated that four million Argentines are in the streets taking part in the celebration which is complicating the planned route of the team bus. Wild scenes broadcast on local TV show people filling highway bridges, climbing light posts and vehicles while singing and waving shirts and flags in the football-crazed nation of 46 million.NYSC portal
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Instead, Messi, coach Lionel Scaloni and midfielder Rodrigo De Paul took the World Cup trophy with them for a helicopter ride over the main parade sites, including the Obelisk, police said.
Messi and winger Angel Di Maria then took a private plane to their hometown of Rosario, alongside forward Paulo Dybala.
As Messi and Di Maria boarded another helicopter to take them to the private neighborhood where they own homes, Dybala continued on to his hometown of Cordoba, a photographer said.JAMB Result
The celebration provides a much-needed distraction for Argentines who are struggling with an economic crisis of high inflation, a weakening currency and tight capital controls. President Alberto Fernandez decreed a national holiday on Tuesday so that citizens could attend the parade.
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