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The festivities of the Argentine national team for obtaining the Qatar World Cup they do not stop. This Saturday, the property of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) opened its doors for a tribute to Lionel Messi in which more than 100 guests linked to the most popular sport in the country participated. from this day the housing complex will bear the name of the emblem of the champion team of the last World Cup.
The captain of the national team, who is also the player who has worn the albiceleste shirt the most times and the top scorer, with 99 goals, had a reunion with several of his former teammates World Cup 2014. Those who were part of that squad that played the contest in Brazil were summoned from 9:30 am in Ezeiza to participate in the event.
Most of them were part of this unique moment, although not all of them could be there since some (like Kun Agüero) are abroad. Among those who said present stand out Fernando Gago y Martin Demichelis, who are currently coaches of Racing and River Plate, respectively. The only two of that generation who are part of the Scaloneta are the own Messi y angel di mariawhile Sergio Romero, Mariano Andújar Marcos Rojo, Enzo Pérez, Federico Fernández and Lucas BigliaThey are the ones that are still active.
“We have achieved that anywhere in the world there is an Argentine playing soccer, representing us. Today is a special day for our house, it is one of the most important days. I want to thank the leaders, players and players of the League who are accompanying us. In 2017 we had to assume and re-found Argentine soccer, and among those that we had to re-found was the building, the management. We came across this dead one that wasn’t closed. There were several projects going around and we didn’t know what it was for. Today we do know. We started with the internal closing, we have bought almost everything to start closing the internal part of the building. It will become the new home for our national teams, it will be three floors of hotels, a high-performance training center, with all the medicine, wet and dry recovery rooms, an auditorium, and it will be the home of all our national teams. It is propitious that we all uncover the foundation stone today. Not only is this the inauguration of this project, but from today this complex will have a new name: Lionel Andrés Messi”, explained President Claudio Tapia.
Then it was the turn of Lionel Messi, who was also accompanied by coach Lionel Scaloni and the entire team that will face Curaçao, to take the microphone to thank him for the tribute paid to him. “First of all, thank you very much for being here. It was not easy to get everyone together, especially at the moment, with people coming from abroad and players who represent the whole country and former teammates. I want to thank Chiqui for this recognition. It’s something very exciting. I have been coming to this property for almost 20 years and from the first day I felt a very special energy. This place is sensational. To this day I feel something special, even in the worst moments. I had hard moments, it was to come here and forget about everything. It was arriving and feeling happiness for being in this place. I still feel it. Today I feel very happy that this bears my name. I am one of those who think that the tributes have to be done while alive, and I think this is a very special recognition for what this property means and for the number of players who pass by. Going through here and knowing that he is going to be called Lionel ANDres Messi is something very nice ”, outlined the Flea.
“I want to thank the leaders for the housing complex to bear the name of Lionel Andres Messi. I think it is the best tribute to the best player in the world. I want to ask the players and managers to try to make football better”, concluded Tapia.
From the AFA The 28 presidents of the clubs that make up the Professional League, in addition to some leaders of the promotion and the captains of the teams of the highest division. Each club will say present and some will do so with more than one footballer and with members of the women’s squad.
It is worth mentioning that the Selection, that on Thursday beat Panama in a friendly at the Monumental, had an informal friendly against River Plate on Friday in Ezeiza, in which the players who had not done so the day before added minutes. In addition, on Monday the campus of Lionel Scaloni will travel to Asunción for the Copa Libertadores draw, at the invitation of Conmebol and later that same day will fly to Santiago del Estero. There they will have to face Curacao on Tuesday for the friendly that will be held at the Madres de Ciudades Stadium.
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