"Watch out, boys!": the scare of Messi and his teammates when a cable almost hit their heads

The Argentine team is already in Buenos Aires, where they arrived at dawn on Tuesday to celebrate with their people the world championship achieved in Qatar.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
20 December 2022 Tuesday 08:34
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"Watch out, boys!": the scare of Messi and his teammates when a cable almost hit their heads

The Argentine team is already in Buenos Aires, where they arrived at dawn on Tuesday to celebrate with their people the world championship achieved in Qatar. The footballers have taken a mass bath mounted on an open-top bus where Lionel Messi, Nicolás Otamendi, Ángel Di María, Rodrigo De Paul and Leandro Paredes have occupied the highest part of the vehicle by sitting in the back.

Accidental celebrations. We all remember episodes of celebrations where there were setbacks, such as the one in which Sergio Ramos lost the Copa del Rey. On this occasion, the accident could have been saved at the last moment by the reflexes of the players and everything has been left in a viral anecdote.

The dangerous wire. Perhaps the organizers who have designed the route of the celebration have not taken into account that the players could be at that height and that has led to one of the scares of the day. As ESPN cameras have captured, the footballers were celebrating when in a turn they ran into a lighting cable. Thanks to his ability, the matter has not gone any further and only Leandro Paredes has been affected by losing his cap.

In numbers. The chain has published the sequence on its Twitter account, where it has quickly gone viral with more than 1.5 million views in addition to 9,200 "likes" and close to 3,000 retweets at the time of writing these lines.

Top comments. "My God, it can't be that we have to suffer even in the festivities", "They came from a month full of luxuries and they almost died within two minutes in Argentina" or "The one who grabbed Paredes' cap just got rich" , are some of the most prominent comments.

Problem with a tree. The cables have not been the only height handicap that the champions have had. On the same journey, the expedition had to be careful with a tree that blocked their path.