the rosarinos Lionel Messi and Angel Di Maria they returned today to Beijing Olympic Stadium, China where 15 years ago they obtained the gold medal of the Olympic Games 2008 with the Argentine selected.
The team led by lionel scaloni trained today for the first time in China ahead of Thursday’s friendly against Australia, the first of the world champions’ tour of Asia.
The training took place at the beijing olympic stadium where he August 23, 2008 so much Messi as Di María conquered the gold medal after defeating Nigeria 1-0 in the final with a goal from “Fideo” himself.
The team that led Sergio Batista He achieved the second gold medal for Argentine soccer after the one obtained in Athens 2004.
At the time, Messi was 21 years old, he was a figure of Barcelona and he had to ask his coach for special permission Josep Guardiola in order to participate in the competition.
Di María, meanwhile, was a Benfica player from Portugal and with his definition above the Nigerian goalkeeper, he patented a play that was later repeated in the finals of the Copa América, in the Finalíssima and in the World Cup.
This was the first formal training session for the Argentine national team since on Saturday they had only done light work in the hotel facilities.
Scaloni begins to put together the possible eleven for the friendlies
Scaloni already has almost the entire squad available. Only the arrivals of Thiago Almada and Julian Alvarez.
The “Spider”, brand new champion of the European Champions League with Manchester City in Istanbulwill join in the next few hours.
Almada, for his part, played on Saturday night with Atlanta United for the United States MLS and then he undertook the long journey that will take just over 24 hours.
The first friendly of the Argentine national team in Asia It will be next Thursday at 9 in our country against Australiarival of the round of 16 in Qatar 2022.
Then, the “Scaloneta” will travel to Jakarta, the capital of Indonesiato play against the local team, on Monday 19 at 9:30 in Argentina.
Source: Ambito
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