The world champion will have a lot of activity in 2023. Although the World Cup fever continues, although he will start the year playing two festive friendlies, precisely to celebrate the glory in Qatar, it will also be a very eventful year at an official level. Because The National Team will not only start qualifying for the 2026 World Cup with six games, but will also have the classic with Brazil in November… as a visitor.
Yes, Conmebol released the schedule for the World Cup Qualifiers for the United States, Mexico and Canada and Argentina will debut in September of this year with Ecuador at home and then will go to La Paz, to face Bolivia, as happened in the last classification (victory 1-0 in the Bombonera and 2-1 in the 3,600 meters of Hernando Siles).
But the novelty is that in this 2023 he will play another four games and that he will close the year playing two classics: against Uruguay at home in November and with Brazil as a visitor, also in the same month. Tremendous.
In the meantime, he will have two more commitments, against Paraguay at home and Peru at home, both meetings in October also of this busy 2023. Yes, as if everything that happened in 2022 were not enough, with the conquest of the World Cup after 36 years, there is no rest: this year he will also mess with everything. Because in addition to these two friendlies with Panama and Curaçao on March 23 and 28, a tour of Asia is planned for June. Phew…
The road to the 2026 World Cup
Argentina vs. Ecuador (L)
Bolivia vs. Argentina (V)
Argentina vs. Paraguay (L)
Argentina vs. Uruguay (L)
Colombia vs. Argentina (V)
Venezuela vs. Argentina (V)
Argentina vs. Bolivia (L)
Paraguay vs. Argentina (V)
Uruguay vs. Argentina (V)
Argentina vs. Colombia (L)
Argentina vs. Venezuela (L)
Ecuador vs. Argentina (V)
Particularities
The format will be the same as the qualification for Qatar 2022. Despite the rumors of a new competition regime, Conmebol maintained everyone against everyone. The difference is that this time the dispute calendar will last for three years, it will go from September of this year to September 2025.
What is also modified is the number of classifieds. As the new World Cup will have 48 participants, six South American teams will get their ticket directly and one more will go to the Repechage. In other words, Conmebol has six and a half places for the 2026 World Cup, out of ten participating teams.
Argentina will play with the same calendar as the last classification. It will start and end with Ecuador and will have the same locations as the road to Qatar 2022.
The National Team will wear a luxury double patch in a large part of this competition: as champion of America until the Copa América 2026 is played, also in the United States; and as world champion during the 18 qualifying matches. In addition, he will wear the brand new three stars on the shield.
He will cross paths with Brazil again in November for Qualifiers after the scandal over the suspension of the last match at Arena Corinthians, which took place on September 21, 2021. Five minutes after that game, Brazilian health authorities entered the field of play to take away the four Argentine soccer players from the Premier League, accusing them of not having complied with the protocols related to the coronavirus. for foreigners arriving from England and for having given false information when they entered the country. That match, in the end, was never resumed: FIFA ended it with sanctions for both Federations.
