The Argentine team will play two friendly matches in the United States against Nigeria and El Salvador after Lionel Scaloni’s team’s Asian tour to China next March was canceled by the host country’s administration.
The Argentine Football Association (AFA) was forced to find an alternative for the preparation of matches for the Copa América that will take place from June 20 to July 14 this year and the solution will bring the ‘Scaloneta’ to American soil, where the continental . tournament will also take place.
El Salvador through the Ivory Coast
One of his opponents the team led by Lionel Messi Nigeria will stay, but the match they will play against the champion of the last edition of the Africa Cup, Ivory Coast, will be replaced by one against the team of El Salvador.
“First, Lionel Scaloni’s team will face El Salvador at the Lincoln Financial Field stadium in the city of Philadelphia. Meanwhile, the second match will be against Nigeria at the Los Angeles Coliseum,” the AFA declared in a release.
The Albiceleste it will play a friendly tour of the United States from March 18 to 26.
The impact of Messi’s figure
We must add the impact that the former FC Barcelona and Paris Saint Germain player has had in the said country, ever since his arrival at Inter Miami of Major League Soccer (MLS) has become a significant follow-up growth of football in the USA
Parties are mean the prelude in Argentina before the Copa América, where he will try to revalidate the title won in 2021, the first of the ‘Scaloni era’, which continued in the Finalissima 2022 and the third World Cup for Argentina after its victory in the last edition of Qatar 2022.
Source: La Verdad
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