This Sunday a third star will adorn a shirt: that of France or Argentina. At 20:00 the two teams will play the final of the World Cup in Qatar in a match that will paralyze the world for two hours and which will mean o the last icing on Messi’s historic careerOh good the consecration of Mbappe as a great star of world football. A good chunk of Spanish fans go with Argentina out of their admiration for the man who has been the star of FC Barcelona for more than 15 years, but practically all Dépor fans opt for the albiceleste colors for another reason: Lionel Sebastian Scaloni.
The Argentine coach has been a Deportivo player for nine seasons, witness and participant in four of their titles. With Scaloni on the field, Dépor won a championship, a cup and two super cups, as well as winning in some of the most prestigious fields of the old continent. The team’s fans idolized the player and fans of eternal rivals, Celta, had him among their unwanted characters ever since that celebration of the 1999/2000 scudetto in María Pita, which was broadcast live on TVG.
Always attentive to Deportivo
In these days leading up to the final, the Spanish sports press is paying attention to this aspect of the player. Scaloni left Deportivo in the winter transfer window of the 2005/2006 season for West Ham, but has A Coruña close to his heart. On the Twitter profile of the now Argentine coach, more famous than ever, He’s wearing a cheerleader that Dépor fans dedicated to him almost 20 years ago. The “technical director”, as they say in his country, recently declared that he hopes to coach Deportivo one day, and Some say they watch Dépor matches in the 1st RFEF of Qatarin full concentration with his team to win an entire soccer world cup.
The former sportsman made headlines in the latest attempt to promote Dépor, when he shared a video of his previous environment in Riazor on his Twitter account. assuring that “this is Dépor”. Thanks to Scaloni’s popularity in Argentina (he won the last Copa América), many Albiceleste fans, especially the younger ones, are discovering what Deportivo de La Coruña is and sympathizing with the team.
In fact, younger fans are surprised by the videos of their coach when he was a player, many of them from Dépor. They are reaching a certain virality on social networks goal that Scaloni scored with Déporfights he’s had with Real Madrid players like Beckham, and of course the controversial League celebration, with his bright yellow-dyed hair and ‘messages’ at Celta de Vigo. When Argentina take to the field on Sunday, fans del Dépor will retrace the whole road at the hands of Scaloni.
