Buenos Aires, Argentina – Argentina is proving that it can win without Lionel MessiJust if he opposes playing in the 2026 World Cup.
After Argentina secured a place in the next year’s competition, the main question is whether the 37-year-old star will play in his sixth tournament and try to win the back-to-back championship.
Argentina coach Lionel Skaloni said, “We will see what happens, there is a lot of time.” “We should go to a game at a time otherwise [we] In the rest of the year, we will speak about the same thing and we need to leave it alone, we will see. He will decide whenever he wants, let’s not drive him mad with it. ,
On Tuesday, a few hours after Argentina qualified for the next World Cup, it went out and handed over the worst loss to Brazil in the World Cup qualifying-one 4–1 thrashing. A few days after Argentina’s 1-0 win in Uruguay.
Both wins came without Messi. The eight-time Ballon D’Or winner was rejected after maintaining a lower-ranked adicter muscle injury.
Messi, who captained Argentina for the 2022 World Cup title in Qatar, has been sidelined several times by Antar Miami in this season due to injuries.
His Argentina colleagues left no doubt about his hopes of Messi returning.
“We must have scored two or three more goals with Messi,” the striker said Julian álvarezWho scored a goal against Brazil.
BoliviaFailure to defeat Uruguay on Tuesday assured Argentina, which takes the South American qualifier with 31 points, one of the six direct places in the continent for the 48-Team World Cup to the United States, Canada and Mexico to co-score next year.
After Tuesday’s big win at Monmental D Nunez Stadium, midfielder Rodrigo de Paul It seemed to speak for the whole country.
“The best of our teams is always when the number 10 is playing,” said Da Paul, “because he is the greatest ever.”