The World Cup Final between Argentina and France turned into an absolute nail-biter of a match, with a tie and extra time culminating in penalty shootouts that saw Argentina take the trophy. The team's triumph was seen by many soccer fans as a crowning personal achievement for Lionel Messi, who was playing his final World Cup with Argentina—but as one sports announcer's reaction proves, this was an emotional moment for a lot of people.

Telemundo commentator Andrés Cantor got incredibly choked up at the end of Sunday's game, when he was able to make the call that Argentina had won the 2022 World Cup. Cantor, an Argentine-American who was born in Buenos Aires before emigrating to the United States with his family as a teenager, became known for his enthusiastic bellowing of "goooooal!" in his announcing—a trademark that has been immortalized in The Simpsons.

And now his passion is once again part of the cultural canon: he can be seen tearfully celebrating Argentina's win in a front-facing TikTok video which has since been widely shared online as an encapsulation of how many Argentinians felt in that moment.

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"It was a rollercoaster of emotion," Cantor told the Today Show. "It was the most dominant final in World Cup history for 75 minutes... then France had the most brilliant two minutes in World Cup history and tied the match! It was just up and down, up and down, anything could have happened. I was just trying to be calm, cool, and collected, but I was overwhelmed by emotion with the last PK, because me saying Argentina campeon del mundo, Argentina champion of the world, was 36 and a half years in the waiting."