The flea achieved a great legacy in football with its talent, but its premiere with the Albiceleste had a detail that did not go unnoticed.
Lionel Messi is a legend in football for the achievements that clubs with Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Miami. But above all it is what he achieved with the ARGENTINE SELECTION Until now, since beyond the two -time championship in the Copa América and the World Cup in Qatar 2022, there seems to be room for more.
But the flea and the albiceleste as well as have happy moments, they have others who did not end in the best way. Even, its so longed for and expected debut It wasn’t even the one that he or his companions and even fans expected.
Messi Debuty
The beginning of a new era in the Argentine soccer team: Lionel Messi’s debut
A August 17 But 2005, the Argentine National Team won a friendly to Hungary By 2 to 1 at the Ferenc Puskas Stadium in Budapest. The team led by José Pekerman was preparing for the World Cup that would be held a year later in Germany, but that game had a special seasoning: Lionel Messi would debut in the major category After being crowned with the Sub 20 in the World Cup of the Netherlands in that year.
They ran 18 minutes of the second half and the poster indicated that the Pulga premiere was coming. Lisandro López left the playing field and Barcelona’s rosarine promise stepped on the grass dressed in albiceleste. What nobody expected was that to the seconds of enteringhe controlled the ball, turned and when he was taken from the shirt by a rival, he wanted to get him off with his arm and He ended up committing infraction.
The coup hit the face of the Hungarian player and the referee of that game, Markus Merk, He expelled Lionel Messi. Just 47 seconds the joy lasted for the strikerI couldn’t believe what was happening. He even declared that he thought they were not going to summon it again after the unfortunate fact.
Messi’s revelation after record expulsion in its premiere with the albiceleste
While it is already an anecdote of football, for flea it was a really bad moment. “It was a very hard time for me, I entered the dead costume, crying”he revealed in an interview, in addition to highlighting the support he received at that confusing moment: “The costumes helped me a lot, they were very close to me.”
Among those present in that game was nothing more or nothing less than Lionel Scaloni, with whom they would end up cutting the bad streak of titles with the albiceleste. But who really sustained him at that time and helped him overcome him in the locker room, it was Kily González: “He told me: ‘Quiet that the same thing happened to me and then I played a lot in the National Team.’ They all supported me a lot.”
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