“Celebrating Argentina’s victory with French champagne. To the Obelisk, friends!”, he wrote with a variety of lively emoticons, alluding to the world title won by player Lionel Scaloni against the French team.
That message has not gone unnoticed at the Palacio San Martín. From there, Carmona took up the challenge and also responded on social networks with scathing tweets referring to the issue of the Malvinas Islands and their sovereignty.
“There’s no need to overdo it, Mark Kent. We’ll have toast with sparkling wine the day Malvinas is returned”, The Argentine official responded, along with the hashtags “#Malvinas” and “#LasMalvinasonargentinas”.
Far from ending there, Kent quoted the Argentine’s tweet as saying: “How sad. I’m happy for your world champion country. This has nothing to do with politics. I’m leaving government. I’m working in the private sector.”
And done: “If you want to manipulate the great sporting success of your country for your own political gain, fine. Shameful. But I’m not surprised.”
Kent held the British embassy in Buenos Aires between 2016 and 2021. He then retired from his diplomatic job to serve as chief executive of the Scotch Whiskey Association.
This week, The Argentine team was again crowned world champions after 36 yearsby beating France on penalties, in a thrilling definition of the Qatar 2022 World Cup final.
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