Suffering is an essential part of an Argentinean narrative, gmochkofsky writes. “Every four years, it is ritually projected onto what is not just a game but a part of the story that we Argentines tell about ourselves.”
Why did we have to suffer like this? Argentina, playing with aplomb, dominated the World Cup final against a tired and uninspired France for almost eighty of the match’s first ninety minutes. Argentina had scored twice. There seemed to be no doubt that, a national hero and one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, would lift the Cup, completing an incredible journey started some three decades ago in Rosario, Argentina, when he played his first real game, at the age of four.
My family is Argentinean. We screamed so hard in our Harlem apartment that later we found our tortoise upside down in her cage. But, in the hundred-and-eighth minute, Messi lashed in a rebound from the French goalie. It was 3–2. Finally, glory was at hand—or so many believed. Argentines know better. Ten minutes later, Mbappé scored yet another penalty.
“We suffered greatly, but we made it,” Messi said later. During the game, Ángel Di María, the beloved thirty-four-year-old winger, had been caught on camera sobbing uncontrollably from the bench, as he witnessed the French comeback. “If you don’t suffer, it’s not worth it,” the left back Nicolás Tagliafico ventured. After several games in this tournament, Argentina’s coach, Lionel Scaloni, appeared to run into the exit tunnel to hide his tears.
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