The Argentina Under 23 Team qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games that will take place in Paris following beating Brazil 1 goal to 0 in the South American pre-Olympic.
Javier Mascherano, coach of the Argentine Olympic team, did not hide his desire to see Lionel Messi with the albiceleste in France, and since the regulations allow teams to have up to three footballers over 23 years of age on the squad, the excitement for Seeing “10” was unleashed.
“Everyone already knows my relationship with Leo, the friendship I have. A winner like him has the doors open for him to join us, then it will depend on him and his commitments, obviously“, said the “little boss.”
The possibility of seeing Messi in the Olympic Games raised all kinds of comments, from positive ones from Albiceleste fans to more negative ones, such as those from Jérôme Rothen, who pointed out once morest the winner of the 2022 World Cup.
Rothen was a professional footballer who played for Paris Saint Germain, and as a native of the city where Messi played for two seasons, he would not like to see him once more, since he considers that the Argentine is not well received there.
“As a Parisian and a Frenchman, seeing you here once more performing with Argentina? Guys, if there is any way to refute the fact that Messi has been laughing in our faces for two years, whistle it. I’m not saying that you have to be violent, but whistle when he is on the field to show him that we are very dissatisfied with the image he has given for PSG, Paris and France“said the former midfielder.
These statements were given on the program Rothen s’enflamme, on RMC, a radio station in France.
“He has been shooting since he left: to PSG, to France, to Paris. That it would be a disaster to live in Paris, that he would not have been received as he should. I think all the French were respected when he arrived. In return, you hope that respect is reciprocated. And that has never been the case”, he remarked.
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