“The day of the final arrived and we took the cup to the stadium stored in our backpack so that it could not be seen. After the last penalty we took out the cup and began to celebrate. At one point a relative of Paredes passed by and we yelled at him that we wanted Leandro to signed the cup for us”.
“The Cup entered three times to the field of play. The first time, when the relative of Paredes takes her away, the relatives take photos, he goes from one side to the other and Leandro signs it. The second time he comes in again, I don’t remember with whom, the glass is there longer. They ask us to take more photos between players and family. And the third time a relative of Guido Rodríguez comes, there were few people left. And again photos were taken.
“After the match ended, we began to see photos and what route our cup had taken. We still didn’t know that it was the one that Leo had raised. Little by little we were looking, with friends who also sent us photos, until we began to see details of the bottom part, which has specific marks, and we began to discover it”.
Paula and Manuel are the Argentine fans who traveled to support the National Team in Qatar and took the Cup with the confidence that La Scaloneta would win the title. But they were concerned so that it is not just another replica, but that it had the same characteristics as the original.
“It is not just another replica. Through social networks we contacted people who are dedicated to making cups and it took them six months to make it. This cup has the weight of the original, it is made with resin and quartz inside and bathed with a gold-like paint. We got Leandro Paredes, Lautaro Martínez, Guido Rodríguez, Nico González and Angelito Di María to sign it.”
