After the era as leader of Daniel Alberto Passarella In the World Cups in Argentina ’78 and Spain ’82, Carlos Salvador Bilardo gave the ribbon to Maradona for the next edition: the star wore the bracelet in the seven presentations of the National Team, which ended with the coronation, as well as in the seven of Italy ’90 in which Argentina finished runner-up in Germany.
Subsequently, Alfio Basile renewed his captaincy for the United States ’94 and the Ten showed it off against Greece and Nigeria. After being expelled from the Cup for doping, Oscar Ruggeri placed it against Bulgaria and Romania.
Messi was just a youth player in Germany 2006 and was not considered among the starters, much less as captain, but Maradona himself -when he was coach of the National Team- named him sub-captain in South Africa 2010.
As the leader of that team was Javier Mascherano, who was rested in the third group stage match against Greece, it was the Paris Saint-Germain attacker who brought the ribbon in the 2-0 victory with goals from Martín Demichelis and Martin Palermo.
Already during the cycle of Alejandro Sabella, the coaching staff gave the responsibility to Rosario, who took over the captaincy in the seven presentations during the runner-up in Brazil 2014. And the same thing happened under the leadership of Jorge Sampaoli in the four matches of Russia 2018.
With the four games in Qatar 2022, “La Pulga” caught up with Maradona and this afternoon surpassed him by adding his seventeenth game as team captain against the Netherlands.
Source: Ambito
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