Messi’s Argentina will finally play in El Sadar

Those who want to see the Argentina of Lionel Messi, Lautaro Martínez, Paulo Dybala or Ángel Di María play live will finally have to go to Pamplona. The albiceleste team intended to play a friendly against Estonia this Sunday at the Reale Arena, an option that did not prosper due to the fact that the San Sebastian football stadium will be undergoing maintenance work on those dates. Finally, it seems to be the stadium of El Sadar the chosen one. This has been announced by the Estonian team on social networks, which has even announced that the match will start at 8:00 p.m., this Sunday, June 5.

The Argentine team has been concentrated for almost a week in Bilbao, where it prepares the match that has been called the ‘finalissima’ against Italy, which will measure the Eurocup champion against the Copa America champion on Wednesday. In recent days they have exercised at the Lezama facilities and they also did it on Saturday at San Mamés, in a practice that 15,000 fans followed live after paying 12 euros.

After the ‘finalissima’, Argentina’s desire is to take advantage of these FIFA dates to play a second preparatory friendly for the World Cup in Qatar to be played in the fall. The option of Athletic’s stadium is unfeasible because during those days the grass will be prepared for the concert that Fito and Los Fitipaldis will offer on the 11th, for which the various Argentine media began to report that the reigning champion of the Copa América was going to play the friendly in Anoeta.

Although the possibility of Anoeta hosting a match for the Albiceleste team was real, it never materialized officially between the Argentine federation and the Gipuzkoan entity. The reason is that the txuri-urdin club plans to undertake the renovation of the spotlights that illuminate the playing field and install LED lights to replace the current reflectors. This operation was previously scheduled once the season ended and prevents a match from being held, reported Real Sociedad.

The same night last Friday they began to consider other options, such as Mendizorrotza in Vitoria, although the renovated El Sadar generated more interest and, in fact, in the Navarran press they consider that the Pamplona field could register its first full since the reform works and extension, with a capacity for 23,500 spectators.

‘Diario de Navarra’ reports that after the first telephone conversations, representatives of the company promoting the event and the Argentine Football Association (AFA) visited El Sadar on Sunday to see it first-hand and that the venue was “very much to their liking.” » for its conditions. The same sources point out that in Osasuna they take the dispute between the two FIFA teams for granted, although there are still details to be finalized, such as the price of the tickets and how they will be sold.