Would Argentina have celebrated its recent victory in the 2022 World Cup with understandably nationalistic fervor if its national football team were captained by a person of color or a Black person?

"Si," simply because, for one, the squad leader was White, and, for another, there was no person of color or a Black person among the members of the Argentine eleven that won in Qatar in December what arguably is the world's premier trophy in all sports.

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