The Argentine National Team, which has just won the World Cup in Qatar 2022, will play his second friendly match as world champion, in Santiago del Estero. The first will be played on the River field. There are great expectations to see Lionel Messi’s team.
The president of AFA himself, Claudio ‘Chiqui’ Tapia, in the company of the provincial president, Gerardo Zamora, confirmed tonight that on Tuesday the 28th of this year the albiceleste team led by DT Lionel Scaloni will face the Curacao team in the capital of Santiago.
In this way, the stage in which the Boca Juniors and Patronato de Paraná teams defined the Argentine Super Cup today will be used once more at the end of the month for the second rehearsal of the Argentine team.
Argentina, winner of the 2022 World Cup title in Qatar, will assume the first friendly of the FIFA double date on Thursday 23 once morest Panamaon the River Plate field.
This match once morest a cast that is ranked 61st in the FIFA world ranking was originally going to be played on Friday the 24th.
But the series of marches and commemorative acts for the National Day of Memory, Truth and Justice led to the fact that the first contact of the Argentine public with the selected ecumenical champion from Albiceleste was brought forward 24 hours.
Argentina meets two antecedents of confrontations with Panama throughout the history. The first of them consisted of a friendly on the Colón de Santa Fe stadium, in May 2009.
On that occasion, the team led at that time by Diego Maradona, won 3-1 with the goals scored by Matías Defederico and Gonzalo Bergessio (2). The formation included only players who acted at the local level. The ‘canalero’ discount was the work of Nelson Barahona.
Years later, now with all its figures, the team led by Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino beat their Panamanian counterpart 5-0, in a match of the qualifying phase of the Copa América Centenario in the United States 2016.
On that Friday followingnoon at Soldier Field in Chicago, Lionel Messi was the figure as in so many other days, scoring three goals. The other many were the work of Nicolás Otamendi and Sergio Agüero.
Source: Telam
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