That’s my nightmare, specially because the players refused to visit the Pink House the last time to avoid “politicing” the sport, if they win again and decide to go there (like Messi went to see Trump after winning in the MLS), well it would be an extremely bitter draught to drink.
That said, I’m genetically incapable of not wishing to win the World Cup, and furthermore if the left is seen as wanting the team to lose (as some in the left with the same worries you mention have said) then the left is fucked for evermore.
I want my people to be happy, if Milei hijacks it, as the 1978 dicators did, it would be bitter but endurable.
You have to remember that in 1978, people who were being tortured in the dictatorship’s secret detention centers celebrated Argentina’s goals and wins like crazy.
Politics is temporary, Football is forever.