Video. Through the display of banners with the legend “Las Malvinas son Argentinas”, which translates as "The Malvinas are Argentine", the 24 teams of the Professional Football League joined the commemoration of the 200 years of the first raising of the national flag in the archipelago.
The image of the teams with the banner was repeated in the 12 stadiums across the country where the second round of the First Division tournament was played. “Malvinas is a feeling that unites us unanimously, it is a cause that is in the hearts of all the fans and of all Argentines”, said the Secretary of Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic, Daniel Filmus, who also thanked “the Professional Football League teams for having joined in celebrating the bicentennial of the first raising of our flag on the Islands”.
The initiative was jointly promoted by the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of the Nation and the Secretariat of Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The teams of Aldosivi, Argentinos Juniors, Arsenal, Atlético Tucumán, Banfield, Boca Juniors, Central Córdoba de Santiago del Estero, Colón, Defensa y Justicia, Estudiantes de La Plata, Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata, Godoy Cruz, Huracán, Independiente, Lanús, Newell’s Old Boys, Patronato, Racing Club, River Plate, Rosario Central, San Lorenzo, Talleres, Unión de Santa Fe and Vélez Sarsfield were photographed with the banner “Las Malvinas son Argentinas”.
On November 6, 1820 David Jewett, commander of the Argentine Navy, raised our flag for the first time in the Malvinas and that act is part of a series of events that reaffirm Argentine sovereignty over the Islands.
The taking of possession of the Malvinas was an official and public manifestation of the effective exercise of Argentine sovereignty, which was interrupted on January 3, 1833, when the United Kingdom usurped the islands and expelled the legitimate authorities and the population that had settled there.
