At least two people died in Argentina between Saturday night and early Sunday in the context of the match that Lionel Messi’s national team won 3-1 against Switzerland in the quarterfinals of the 2026 Football World Cup, while other people had to be attended to by emergency services.
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In the city of Buenos Aires, a 51-year-old man died of a heart attack during the match and at least six other people had to be attended to by the local government’s public emergency service, which transferred them to hospitals and they are now out of danger.
In San Francisco, a city in the province of Córdoba, a 20-year-old young man was shot three times in the back during the celebrations after the Argentine national team’s match, in an episode that caused panic among the hundreds of people celebrating in the street as it happened in the middle of the crowd, according to the local media Cadena 3.
According to the same media, the prosecutor’s office in charge of the murder investigation stated that the attacker escaped among the crowd and that there were no other injured, so the main hypothesis is that it was a settling of scores.
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The victim had regained his conditional freedom a few days ago as he is serving a sentence for qualified robbery.
Another episode of violence amid the joy of Argentines for advancing to the World Cup semifinals occurred in downtown Buenos Aires, around the iconic Obelisk, when the City Police dispersed some dozens of people still gathering there with the deployment of infantry forces, who fired rubber bullets on the middle of 9 de Julio Avenue.
Argentina’s next match will be against England, a match that is symbolically and historically significant due to the rivalry stemming from the armed conflict in 1982 that faced troops from both countries over the possession of the Malvinas Islands in the South Atlantic, to which was added in 1986 the World Cup match in Mexico where the Albiceleste defeated the English team 2-1 with two historic goals by the star Diego Maradona.
