Telemundo broadcaster Andrés Cantor (AndresCantorGOL) discusses the reaction to his call of Argentina's World Cup win
teared up and wrapped his left arm around commentating partner Claudio Borghi—who played on Argentina’s last World Cup-winning team, in 1986—after Argentina’s Gonzalo Montiel scored the penalty shootout goal that gave Cantor’s home country its first World Cup title in 36 years.
One minute and 33 seconds later, Mbappé volleyed a rocket to the back of the net to tie everything up. No World Cup final had ever turned around so drastically, so quickly. Messi would score again in extra time, but Mbappé could not be denied: he fired a shot that caused a handball, and converted the penalty shot for a hat-trick—the first in a men’s World Cup final since 1966.
“Soccer is part of our DNA,” Cantor tells TIME. “It really is. And in my case, football is my life. I live for football 24 hours a day. Unfortunately, I’ve missed birthdays, graduations, going out to the movies because I’m constantly watching football. And I guess it has a special connotation for expats that live outside of Argentina because we have a sense of belonging and an identification with our national team, which is really stronger by the fact that we live outside our birth country.
Even Cantor sometimes questions his psychological investment in the sport. “Unfortunately, we take it to a level where it seems that nothing else is important in life,” says Cantor. “Sometimes we make it about life and death in a 90-minute football match. I know it shouldn’t be that way.” Cantor often talks to former players about the psychoses of fans like him. “Why are we like this?” says Cantor.
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