Lionel Messi (Photo Maximiliano Luna).
The Rosario star Lionel Messi heads the list of six Argentines who make up the ideal South American soccer team in 2023, according to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS).
Messi, of great performance with Inter Miami of the United States, is one of the five world champions who appears in the IFFHS ideal 11 along with defenders Nicolás Otamendi and Cristian Romero; midfielder Alexis MacAllister; and the forward Lautaro Martínez.
The remaining Argentine representative is the scorer Germán Cano, with notable performance with Fluminense of Brazil, last champion of the Copa Libertadores with the 2-1 victory against Boca Juniors at the Maracaná in Rio de Janeiro.
The former Lanús, scorer of a goal against Boca, led the Argentine scoring table in 2023 with 40 conquests and became the top scorer in the Copa Libertadores with 12.
Messi and Cano are the two Argentine players who do not play in European footballunlike Otamendi (Benfica of Portugal), Romero (Tottenham of England), MacAllister (Liverpool of England) and Martínez (Inter of Italy).
The ideal South American team in 2023, according to the IFFHS, is the following: the Brazilian Ederson (Manchester City of England); the Uruguayan Ronald Araujo (Barcelona of Spain), Romero and Otamendi; the Uruguayan Federico Valverde (Tottenham), MacAllister y Messi; the Brazilian Vincius Jr (Real Madrid of Spain), Martínez, Cano and Uruguayan Darwin Nunez (Liverpool).
2024-01-15 00:59:00
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