Over the past four years, people have been patiently waiting for this day to come. It’s the World Cup’s draw day, and anything can happen.

Coming from a country with loads of history in this competition (to give you an idea of the magnitude, only 8 countries have won it in almost 100 years and Argentina did it twice), Draw Day is anything but an ordinary day.

From today and for the next 9 months, every tv show in Argentina will talk about the countries we’ll play against. We’ll get to know about their population, culture, traditions and anything that can be described as “related content”.

Back in 2018, we had Iceland, Croatia and Nigeria. We learned that Iceland has less than 500,000 people, that Croatia has the richest collection of neanderthal remains, and that Nigeria is the place where 7% of all the spoken languages in the world meet.

But Draw Day is not only the beginning of a world tour. It’s also where nightmares are born. The so-called Death Groups spin around two potential candidates to win the tournament (sometimes even three) plus two more accessible teams. Add some rough experiences from past tournaments to that and you get dozens of thorough analyses regarding every possible combination and what would be the ideal scenario to reach immortal glory.

In addition, it’s possibly Lionel Messi’s last World Cup appearance, giving a whole epic vibe to the situation.

Today people will leave work early just to experience the beginning of all that. They’ll get some delicious cheese, craft beer and why not some olives. They’ll get together at someone’s place, turn the tv on, and let the magic begin.

Right now, 5 hours before madness, life is good. Let’s see how that plays out.