Argentina’s soccer team will reappear on the pitches, as world champions, with two friendly matches against Panama and Curaçao on March 23 and 28, confirmed this Thursday by the Argentine Football Association (AFA).
Although the governing body of Argentine football announced a few days ago that the Albiceleste led by Lionel Scaloni, who won the World Cup in December Qatar 2022, he will play those two friends, the date and place remained unknown.
“@lioscaloni’s team will play on 03/23 at the stadium Monumental and on 03/28 to the Mother of Cities de Santiago del Estero”, published this Thursday the official account of the selection.
As the tweet indicates, Argentina will host Panama on March 23 in Buenos Aires and on the 28th they will face Curaçao in the oldest city in the country, Santiago del Estero, despite the fact that there has been talk about the possibility that this match will be held in Córdoba.
Inaugurated in 1938, River Plate’s Antonio Vespucio Liberti stadium, Known as “Monumental”, it was one of the main venues for the 1978 World Cup and, after eleven months of renovations that ended this month, it has a capacity of more than 80,000 spectators, making it the largest venue in the South America.
For his part, the Santiago del Estero stadium, with a capacity for 30,000 peoplewas inaugurated in March 2021 with the match that gave River, against Racing, victory for the 2019 Argentine Super Cup.
The friends announcement comes after last Monday will confirm the continuation of Lionel Scaloni as technical director of the Albiceleste until 2026.
on the same day, Argentina is one of the great winners of The Best of FIFA galawith awards to Lionel Messi as the best male player of the year, to Emiliano ‘Dibu’ Martínez as the best goalkeeper, to coach Scaloni and to the albiceleste fans as the best fans in the world.
Source: La Verdad
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