'I showed I was human.' Buenos Aires-born Andrés Cantor describes his rush of emotions calling Argentina's winning penalty kick in the FIFAWorldCup final to ChrisKamrani. 🎥 andrescantorgol | TikTok
Cantor grabbed hold of Borghi’s white dress shirt as he screamed and screamed and his voice cracked and he said the words five decades in the making.because the scream every Argentine wanted to hear was ‘Argentina Campeon!’ I repeated it and repeated it,” Cantor said. “I remembered not only Maradona, but the great world champions that have also passed away like Cuciuffo, Brown, Luque.
Cantor covered his first World Cup in 1986 aged 23 as a media member working for Argentine magazine El Grafico. He’d been to two previous tournaments as a fan, but the tournament in Mexico was his first doing his best to pry apart love for his national team and the objectivity required by the job. He watched Maradona and La Albiceleste
lift their second World Cup trophy in three attempts . In the four-year cycles since, there had been a frustrating mixture of sorrow and pitfalls and debacles — there were group-stage exits, title-calibre teams who never got going at a tournament, and a 113th-minute heartbreak in the 2014 World Cup final at the hands of Germany.
As if the jubilation wasn’t tangible enough, Cantor had the unique pleasure of soaking in the triumph with his kids in attendance. His son Nico was working pitchside for radio network Futbol de Primera, and daughter Andrea was in the stands in a No 9 Argentina shirt. Nico had the luxury of travelling to the last four World Cups, either as a fan or, like his father, as a media member.
“This year he told me, ‘You know, you’re so lucky you got to see Argentina lift the World Cup twice. I’m heartbroken every time I go to the World Cup and Argentina can’t lift it’,” Andres said. 3️⃣ – when I went to go find my dad.
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