Four Argentine friends to cycle from South Africa to Qatar to attend World Cup

BUENOS AIRES, April 28 (Reuters) – 4 Argentine pals will cycle 10,500 kilometres from South Africa to Qatar to help their nation on the World Cup in November, an initiative that can even result in 10,500 new bushes being planted of their homeland.

Lucas Ledezma, Leandro Blanco Pighi, Silvio Gatti and Sebastian Rodriguez, from the province of Cordoba, will begin biking on Could 15 from Cape City to Doha, a journey that can cross 15 nations in two continents.

“The overall thought of the journey is to cowl 10,500 kilometres passing by 15 nations for six months,” Ledezma, a 34-year-old bodily training instructor, instructed Reuters. “The concept is to reach about 4 or 5 days earlier than the opening match begins in Doha,” he added.

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Argentina are scheduled to play their first match at this 12 months’s match on Nov. 22 towards Saudi Arabia on the Lusail stadium.

Leandro Blanco, 31, and Lucas Ledesma, 34, members of a bunch of 4 that can make a biking journey from the south of Africa to Qatar in time for the 2022 soccer World Cup, experience their bikes in Buenos Aires’ downtown, Argentina April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian

Ledezma has earlier expertise in this sort of crossing. In addition to biking to Brazil to attend the 2014 World Cup and in addition to Russia for the 2018 finals, he has travelled by varied nations on two wheels to cheer on his compatriots on the 2018 Rio Olympics and the 2015 Copa America in Chile.

For his 2022 journey, he will probably be joined by a documentary maker, a author and a journey agent.

“There may be planning for months, sitting down to seek out out what is going on in every nation, there’s a deep investigation,” mentioned 31-year-old author Pighi.

“Travelling by bicycle is one thing stunning as a result of we do not skip wherever, we really feel the journey, every little tree, every home, every household, kilometre by kilometre,” he added, enthusiastically.

Apart from watching the matches, the journey goals to assist the surroundings. Every kilometre travelled will probably be marked by the planting of a tree within the mountains of Cordoba, situated about 600 kilometres northwest of the nation’s capital, Buenos Aires.