Francesco de la Cruz is the World Balloon Champion and Shakira celebrated the Peruvian’s victory | VIDEO

A curious championship that was dressed in red and white colors. Francesco de la Cruz officially became the first World Balloon champion and Shakira celebrated the Peruvian’s victory. The Colombian singer was present at the PortAventura amusement park (Tarragona).

“Peru has won, Peru has won”, were the words of Shakira in a video that he published on his social networks, where he was accompanied by his son and both are excited by the results.

It should be noted that Gerard Piqué, husband of the Colombian artist, and the content creator Ibai Llanos were in charge of creating the new sport that promises, as seen in the first edition, to revolutionize social networks, especially Twitch.

The Globe World Cup comes after they saw a viral video on the Internet and now it has been transformed into a championship in which up to 32 national teams play. The video that the Catalan footballer and the Spanish streamer observed showed two young Americans who were filmed at home playing with a balloon around their house and the main objective was that the ball does not fall on the ground.

The amount of reception that the Balloon World Cup has achieved has been so great that there are more than 600 thousand people who saw the transmission and the hashtag Balloon World Cup adds more than 80 thousand publications on Twitter. On the other hand, Francesco won a prize of 10,000 euros for having won the championship after defeating German Jan Spieb in the final with a resounding 6-2 result.