Blue and white euphoria grips Buenos Aires 

More than a million people were in the streets of Buenos Aires celebrating the victory, according to estimates from the Argentinian authorities

PARTY TIME: Crowds take to the streets of Buenos Aires on Sunday to celebrate Argentina’s victory over France in the 2022 World Cup final in Doha. Pic: Diego Radames/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Around the Obelisk in Buenos Aires, revellers in football shirts, hats, wigs and face-paint in the Argentinian colours danced long into the night to drums and sound systems blaring cumbia and reggaeton.

Young people climbed fences, light posts and the giant BA sign at the foot of the monument. It was an ecstatic tribute to a World Cup victory this country had been waiting for ever since this football-mad nation last carried the trophy home in 1986.