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Argentina's controversial World Cup banner got into the stadium by way of some dude's underwear
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An Argentine fan named Santiago smuggled the Malvinas banner into Mercedes-Benz Stadium by hiding it in his pants to get past security checks.

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Dakich predicts Argentina will win, praising Messi's consistent greatness. The discussion then shifts to WNBA star Caitlin Clark, whom NBA Commissioner Adam Silver called a 'political football' amid physical play controversies. Dakich attributes some issues to WNBA players' jealousy and envy.

I kind of feel like people tried to dance around it before the match, but as soon as I saw that Argentina and England were playing each other in theHowever, the banner — referencing a long-time feud between Argentina and Great Britain over the South Atlantic islands that led to a brief war in 1982 — had to get into the stadium somehow, and that"somehow" was in some dude's underpants. , a fan named Santiago brought the banner — which was really a hotel bedsheet with black paint that he bought for a few bucks — into the stadium by stuffing it into his crotch.

"I folded it as much as I could, put it in my private parts to get through security checks, and in the end we managed to get in," he told Argentina's Todo Noticias. FOX WORLD CUP ANNOUNCER SAYS TRUMP'S APPEARANCE AT FINAL IS 'FUN, UNIQUE THING' DESPITE POTENTIAL BACKLASH That would be a bad time to break out the banner.

You can't lose and then be like,"You know those islands we've been fighting over, even though most of the people on the island side with you guys? Yeah, those are ours.

" Just wouldn't have the same power, and that would've meant that Santiago would've left Mercedes-Benz Stadium with a politicized bedsheet crammed into the front of his pants. But that's not what happened, and Santiago whipped out his crotch banner and threw it to the Argentines, who had no idea where that thing had been. , they were not impressed by the banner.

In fact, UK Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey demanded that the players involved be banned from Sunday's final against Spain.

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