The Argentine national team left Kansas City and arrived in Miami for a final training session before the challenge this Friday against Cape Verde, in Miami Gardens, for the Round of 32 of the World Cup. But the team’s departure from Kansas airport left a curious situation, which speaks to the strict controls that exist in the United States and from which not even a star like Lionel Messi was spared.
Everything happened on the airport tarmac itself, before the members of the world champion team in Qatar 2022 boarded the plane that would take them to the Florida city. Each player had to show their luggage and go through a metal detector. According to a video, far from being uncomfortable, there were laughs, jokes, and complicit words with the officers of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
The players, who showed their passports right there, burst out laughing when an officer found in Cristian Cuti Romero’s hand luggage a classic long-shaped spark lighter, generally used to light stoves. Rodrigo De Paul, always attentive to fun moments, was the first to alert Messi about what was happening to the defender. Number 10 reacted with a smile and then continued to the spot where an airport employee was waiting to scan his body and the soles of his sneakers with the metal detector.
«Passenger screening at the airport is part of TSA’s layered security system to ensure their safe arrival at their destination. TSA screening procedures are designed to prevent prohibited items and other threats to transportation security from entering the airport’s restricted area, and are developed in response to information about such threats,» the agency states on its official website. It adds: «TSA inspects approximately 3.3 million carry-on bags daily for explosives and other dangerous items.»
Far from being an uncomfortable moment for the Argentine squad, it was a pleasant situation that did not alter the very good mood that accompanies the group. Today, already in Miami, coach Lionel Scaloni and a player will give the official press conference at Hard Rock Stadium, the venue of Argentina’s last conquest in the 2024 Copa América against Colombia.
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Para mí esto está perfecto, ni Messi se salva del control. Bien ahí TSA, así se frena la inmigración ilegal. Yo creo que estos zurdos se creen especiales, pero nadie está por encima de la ley. ¡Volve a Argentina, che!
para mí el Mesías este, que chupa guita del estado con sus empresitas, ahora pasa por el scanner como un mortal. la TSA es el capitalismo en acción: ricos y pobres, todos controlados. pero los del bando contrario lloran porque persiguen a Trump? hipócritas, que se vayan al recuento de votos en Miami.