(crowd roaring)
- [Alexis] Guys, 2018 World Cup is here.
Argentina is about to play.
Where else would you want to watch an Argentinian game
besides an entire restaurant named after
one of the biggest clubs in Argentina?
We're standing in front of Boca Juniors.
It's 8am in the morning.
I guarantee there's someone drinking beer.
Let's go meet some of these fans.
(mid-tempo band music)
- [Crowd] Argentina, Argentina, Argentina.
- We are in the middle of Boca Juniors Restaurant.
We're in Elmhurst, Queens.
If you can't tell, this place is jammed with Argentinians.
This is where you want to go if you're an Argentina fan.
You probably could just show B-roll.
This place is wall-to-wall Boca Juniors.
- [Matt] We have right over here in Corona, man.
It's a mini Buenos Aires over there.
We have a huge Argentinian population.
Every loves soccer around here.
- How does it normally look for Argentina games --
is it normally like this?
- Yeah, man.
(crowd roaring)
- Yeah, it gets crazy out here.
- What makes you guys such big
Argentinian national team fans?
- [Guy in Black] It's not that we're fans,
we're (foreign language) Argentina.
We're Argentinian.
- [Girl in White] My boyfriend's Argentinian,
my dad is Argentinian, so.
- Start with the dad on that one, damn.
- [Guy in Stripes] You can live your life,
but once the World Cup comes and Argentina is playing
(bleep) work, (bleep) everything else.
This is all that matters.
- [Male Fan] We grew up watching
the best players in the world.
- You don't have a choice, right?
When you're Argentinian.
- We don't have a--
We don't, we do not.
- Can you be Argentinian and not be a fan of
the Argentinian national team?
- No.
- [Guy in Gray Tee] No! Never!
- No, if you're Argentinian--
- [Screaming Guy] We'll (bleep) kill you.
- (laughing) That guy's wearing an NYPD shirt, by the way.
- We do have a lot of Italian background.
- Yeah.
- Germans, also.
But you know, we don't talk about Germans.
- We don't talk about that.
- [Lady in Red] (speaking foreign language) from Russia
with love.
- Everybody here wants to be for Argentina.
Doesn't matter if you're Columbian.
Doesn't matter if you're Argentinian.
- [Guy in Hat] You know we're playing on Tuesday,
but that's fine, man.
You know, we still support.
- You got some (foreign language) in the house.
- I sneaked out of work to come watch the game.
- And you're on camera.
- Yeah, bro.
I don't give a
(bleep) about my boss. - Damn, you don't give a sh*t.
- Yeah, if he's easy, (bleep) his ass.
- All right look, it senses hell right now.
I'll be eating some empanadas.
This reminds me of my youth growing up without a father.
Oh, things are getting weird.
(relaxing music)
First of all, perfectly fried outer shell, beautiful gold.
Look at that chicken.
(relaxing music)
They also do beef empanadas.
You can tell the difference in the way they're braided.
This is the beef.
(relaxing music)
Every time you take a bite,
it kind of washes your palate away.
I can't even think of anything else to eat
while I'm really, really tense.
(relaxing music)
(crowd chanting in foreign language)
All right, so this means a lot to you, right?
- This means a lot.
- This is he last,
Messi's last World Cup. - And it's a tough one.
- It's looking too good, so far you know.
- All right, so, you can guarantee that right now
Argentina wins the World Cup, or you can never have
matambre again?
Would you take that deal?
I'll go vegan if Argentina wins.
- Would you take that deal?
- No, no.
- Would you take that deal?
- Yes.
- Absolutely, I'll be vegan for the rest of my life!
- You're the second and third person
who said they'd become Vegan.
- You go vegan, and you can't have mate ever again.
- Coffee all day, it doesn't matter.
- Coffee all day.
- It doesn't matter.
- What if I said you can win the World Cup,
you can keep eating asada,
but you couldn't see your family for a year.
Would you take that deal?
- That's fine. That's fine.
Honestly, they could probably use a break from me
after the World Cup, so that's fine.
(Alexis laughs)
(crowd ranting)
- Not exactly the result everyone wanted, 1-1 draw.
Ready?
- This is not a defeat.
This is just a warm-up.
- Just a warm-up.
I had a blast.
A lot of drums, a lot of singing, a lot of love.
- What do you mean?
- It wasn't the worst situation, you could've lost.
- No, no, no, no, what?
- It wasn't great.
- This was just a warm-up.
- But let me tell you something, you can see the passion,
you can see the excitement, you can see how everyone hangs
on every single moment.
- [Guy With Scarf] Let me tell you something.
- Hey, this guy's back.
- This is just practice.
- You told us that already.
- Yeah, I know. I did.
But when the potatoes are hot,
Argentina always come through.
- That is true,
that is true. - I have no idea
what that means.
- That means that we got the (foreign language).
- Potatoes, eggs -- a lot of nicknames for balls.
I get it.
- We got the balls
so (bleep) come through. - You mean, balls.
If you want to watch Argentina play a World Cup game,
they got a lot of games left, this is obviously
the place to come.
(calm world music)
- [Guy in Black Tee] 100% Argentina.
- 100% -- what about you, man?
- [Man in Glasses] You know, not really.
- Wow, we're cutting this out.
- Piking your team at random would seem kind of cheap.
- Well, now you just (bleep) on what he said.
- It's not random if you have money on them to win the Cup.
- There you go.