In the middle of the National Team caravan, two babies were born / Twitter
In times of World Cup fever, it is common for names like Lionel, Enzo or Julián to have been the most chosen during the month. But the most curious cases, without a doubt, occurred with two babies born in Vicente López and La Matanza during the caravan of the champions: their parents baptized them Messi and Messias.
According to the Civil Registry of the province of Buenos Aires, on December 20, in the midst of the celebrations of the world champions aboard an open-top bus that took more than four million people to the streets, Messi and Messias arrived in the world. , two babies born in Vicente López and La Matanza respectively.
In the province of Buenos Aires, from the semifinal against Croatia that was held on December 13 until Wednesday, 1,020 births were registered, of which at least 80 bear a name related to “la Scaloneta.”
The trend, however, occurred throughout the World Cup in different provinces of the country. In Mendoza, during the last 30 days, 32 babies were baptized with the name Lionel, 26 with Julián and 14 with Leonel and Lautaro. Next on the list of names in homage to the players of the National Team are Enzo, with 13 registrations, and Ángel and Emiliano with seven.
Meanwhile, the name Lionel was also the most chosen in the province of Tucumán, where the first Lionel was born on December 9 and the second on December 13, explained Alicia Quinteros, in charge of the Newborn Identification service of the Maternity Institute “Our Lady of the Mercedes “of that province.
Leonel was also the name chosen by a family from the city of Ushuaia, in Tierra del Fuego, for their son born on December 6, three days after the National Team’s victory over Australia, the only case in the province in which alludes to Lionel Messi.
Meanwhile, in Salta five babies who were born last Sunday, while Argentina was consecrating world champion, were registered with the names of Lionel and Julián, in homage to the captain and forward of the national team Julián Álvarez.
The trend of parents opting for names of well-known soccer players at the time of their children’s birth is not new. The same thing had happened in the 1978 World Cup with the newborns who registered under the name of Mario Alberto, by Kempes. Or like Diego Armando, for Maradona, who went from 47 newborn babies with this name in 1978 to 1,703 in 1981 and to 1,500 in 1986 when the National Team got the second star in Mexico, according to the National Registry of People.
