Javier Milei has failed again with the Argentine National Team. The President missed out on his photo with Lionel Messi, will not have the players at the Casa Rosada as he wished, and made a failed announcement that went down badly with the team: a holiday with celebrations that will not happen.
As was anticipated on Saturday, the National Team was not going to go to the Casa Rosada, no matter what happened. They would not attend despite Milei’s insistent request for them to come to a «Casa Rosada empty of officials.»
The players did not respond to the possibility of holding celebrations or going to the Casa Rosada. «They never answered us, they ignored us and they are right. It’s our problem, I don’t know why we got into this,» said a source from the ruling party. The holiday is canceled and so are the celebrations.
Within the government, there is neglect, anger, and accusations over Milei’s failed announcement on Twitter. And there is blame to go around. Among the President, his sister Karina Milei (they watched the game together), and even Luis Majul are on the list of those at fault.
The journalist is internally accused of «pressuring» the President to make a quick decision and talk about celebrations and a holiday. «He wanted a scoop all the time, and we overextended ourselves,» they said at the Casa Rosada.
The rushed final decision was made at the Olivos estate, where the two Mileis watched the game together. No one else intervened. Not Diego Santilli, nor Martín Menem, nor Santiago Caputo. It was communicated to a WhatsApp group where the libertarian bigwigs are that Milei’s message was going out. Juan Pablo Carreira, National Director of Digital Communication of the Presidency, was asked to make the tweet, and that was it. No one could stop it.
Today, reproaches fly within the government, as they consider it a terrible decision that exposed the President and left him in a bad light. Almost no one realized that perhaps the players did not feel like celebrating anything, let alone having a holiday for that after losing the World Cup final to Spain.
In the government, they analyzed: «The players don’t want this. It’s not because it’s Milei or someone else. They want to stay out of politics, and that’s fine. We know that Messi, even if you empty the Casa Rosada, the fact of accepting you and going is a gesture, and they don’t want to do it. They really don’t want anything to do with politics. And nothing means nothing. They didn’t even accept gestures that pretend not to be political because there are gestures there too,» they resigned in the ruling party.
In various sectors of the government, there is anger because they feel they could not participate in decision-making at such an important moment for the country and could not even give their opinion to reverse some situations or stop Milei’s tweet with the words «celebration» and «holiday,» which they consider untimely. «We had to wait for the players to speak, for them to say what they wanted to do, and then we could come out,» they regret in La Libertad Avanza.
jajajaj milei queriendo foto con messi y la seleccion lo mando a freir churros para mi estos gor*s liberales viven en una nube de pedos messi sabe q no se mancha con fachos lastima q ni le dieron la hora choreto viva la izquierda carajo
jajajaja messi se la re mando no quiere ni pisar la rosaa por miedo a q le saquen los privilegios para mi estos vagonetas de la seleccion son unos zurditos malagradecidos milei se tiene q imponer ya aguante el leon