. But in the position behind one of the goals, the fans of the Argentina team barely noticed.

In those seats reserved for the most enthusiastic followers, no one pays enough attention to the game. Under the team’s blue and red banner ocean, many players are almost impossible to see the stadium, the fans jumped up and jumped up and sang. They played trumpet and hit 铙and and sang pop songs while the lyrics changed, turning them into a carol of their team.

Carolina Rutkoweski shook her arm and shook her hips and sang: “San Lorenzo, I think I can’t explain / I’ll be with you forever / because blue and red flow in my soul,” Luis’s music Fonsi Hit “Despacito”.

“You feel the football game in your body, through your blood vessels. There is no need to look at it.” The 44-year-old lady with her young son beside her, dressed in blue and red sacred Lorenzo shirt, said at the end of the half match with another Argentine team Chacarita.

San Lorenzo is not a strong team like the Boca Juniors or the River Plate, but its fan base is known for its talent in rewriting local popular songs, turning them into stadium songs. Although fierce competition sometimes becomes violent, other teams recognize San Lorenzo’s creativity and often modify the hymn for their own cheers.

In the weeks before the start of the World Cup, San Lorenzo fans wrote a new song for the Argentine national team, hoping that it would be welcomed by players and audiences just like the people who sang on the stadium during the last World Cup. National Brazil According to the melody of the Creedence Clearwater revival, “Oh Brazilian, tell me how it feels.”

“San Lorenzo’s song tells a story. It’s not just about putting together rhyming lines,” said Sergio Pelihan, one of the singers.

“There are war songs in football culture that are like calling weapons. However, our songs don’t have much insults or references to drugs. Our goal is to celebrate, not to inspire violence.”

San Lorenzo gained some prestige in 2013 when one of his fans, an Argentinian Cardinal George Mario Berglolio, became Pope. Then, when football fans clamored for the football-themed version of “Despacito”, it once again became famous. This version consisted of a small group of believers named “Escuela de Tablones” (“Board School”) in commemoration of many wooden pieces. Seating stadium. The 诵 was spread on social media and was then occupied by stadium crowds in Spain, Portugal, Italy, South Korea, Brazil, Uruguay and Ecuador.

Fonsi was surprised at this phenomenon. He thanked San Lorenzo: “You are the first to accept Despacito’s melody and turn it into a song to cheer for your team.”

The new song was recorded by a wooden board outside a house in Buenos Aires and was released last month. This song is based on Fonsi’s other song, “chamela culpa.” Wood said that they contacted the Puerto Rican singer’s record company and agreed to let them record the football theme version.

San Lorenzo is one of the top five football clubs in Argentina and was founded in 1908 in a middle class suburb of Buenos Aires. Initially, the team played in a stadium called “ElGas metro” because it resembled an industrial gas field until 1979, when the country’s military rulers occupied the land that was later sold to French supermarket chains.

In the 14 years of San Lorenzo’s lack of base, it was played in borrowed stadiums and was often the target of opponents’ jokes and contempt. At that time, fans began to answer with homemade chants.

A group of fans, their arms covered with tattoos, raised cy. Others put the horn or trombone to the mouth. Their leader, imitating orchestra conductors, gave the signal. Within minutes, viewers will join them, including women and children, sing the lyrics they already know, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s football theme version, Oasis, Enrique Iglesias, Maluma and more.

Just as the players in their locker room stretched their muscles before the game, music fans prepared their harmony, practicing lyrics that rallied around social media and WhatsApp messaging teams over the past few days.

“It’s like a multiplication table. You try to memorize them,” said Andrea Lopezo’s fan, Andrea Epifanio. I play songs on the phone and sing with them, and I won’t let other people think so badly. “

When they were rehearsing under the stands, “We tried to figure out whether people would like this song,” said Diego Jerkovic, a member of the board. He said that less than 10% of the songs they wrote would bring it to the stadium.

In the past few decades, violence has cast a shadow over Argentine football. At least 323 people have been killed in the conflict.