Article 670BB Blue and white euphoria grips Buenos Aires after Argentina’s World Cup win

Blue and white euphoria grips Buenos Aires after Argentina’s World Cup win

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Amy Booth in Buenos Aires
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More than a million people were in the streets of Buenos Aires celebrating the victory, according to estimates from authorities

Around the Obelisk in Buenos Aires, revelers in football shirts, hats, wigs and face-paint in the Argentinian colours danced long into the night to drums and sound systems blaring cumbia and reggaeton.

Young people climbed fences, light posts, and the giant BA sign at the foot of the monument. It was an ecstatic tribute to a World Cup victory this country had been waiting for ever since this football-mad nation last carried the trophy home in 1986.

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