The coach of the Argentine soccer team, Lionel Scaloni, It was said Thursday Lionel Messi “He wanted” to play the 2026 World Cup, though he emphasized that “both of him and his teammates are aware that there is a neat time” in that competition.
“The first thing to say is both he and his teammates are aware that there is a neat time, and the desire to play the World Cup and they all have,” Scaloni said in an interview In Argentine Canal Dsports.
Everyone loves him
“But to ensure this, then you have to see how time has passed, seeing how someone will come,” said the coach, emphasizing that 37 -Year -old Inter Miami player for the World Event Cup will perform between June and July 2026 in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Scaloni also referred to the replacement on the albiceleste campus for that contest and said “It’s also time to give children not yet”, even if they didn’t give names.
New faces
“It’s true that the basis is, but why not think of a boy who can contribute to us,” he added, and continued: “We believe it’s time and we’ll see before the call we do.”
Argentina closed 2024 as the leader of South American qualified for the next World Cup, with 25 points after 12 games played, and a difference of five units in Uruguay, second.
Although, in the absence of six games, it is close to the signs of its classification, the World Champion team has not shown its best face in the final stretch of last year and recorded two wins, two losses and a draw in its last five games.
His Debut in 2025 was scheduled for March 19, when he visited Uruguay in Montevideo, and three days later he would receive Brazil.
The farewell of Di María
The closure of 2024 is also marked For goodbye of Angel Di María National Team.
“It’s a stage, for what he said, closed. And it’s closed in the best way. If he wrote his movie, his book, football history, I wouldn’t have thought I would write it as well as it ended,” Said Scaloni.
“This is a designed and matured decision. I think we can say now, because he retired winning and one of the best players in Argentina’s history,” he added.
In a question about his removal from the position, which he has held since 2018, Scaloni says his position is “dream” and that the day he left would be the “saddest” of his life. “But I’m also saying that the day I am not with all the desire to leave. For now I’m fine,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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