The coach of the Argentine national team Under 20, Javier Mascheranoassured that the captain Lionel Messi will be welcomed to the Under 23 team to play the Olympic Games of Paris 2024 if the classification is achieved and he so wishes.
“Leo has the national team’s doors open to do whatever he wants, it’s reality. If in the case of qualifying he wants to go, he will be welcome. My relationship with him is a very great friendship and I would love to.”Mascherano expressed to the EFE agency about the possibility of him joining the Argentine National Team.
However, he assimilated that he will first have to get into Paris 2024 to be able to think about that: “First we have to qualify. Then, obviously, we are going to analyze the option of Leo coming. But there is no use getting ahead of ourselves: the reality is that first there is to qualify”.
“It would be fantastic if he could be there. The Games are an ambition of many football stars, like (Kylian) Mbappé. For Lionel Messi it would mean an opportunity to write history again. He could be the only player in history to have two medals Olympic gold medals and the World Cup,” said the president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach.
The 10 already won the gold medal with Mascherano in Beijing 2008 and they hope it will happen again now that Messi is a megastar. “I don’t want to interfere in the coach’s (Javier Mascherano) decisions, but it would be a fantastic chance for Messi. If he plays “, Argentina will have a better chance of winning the gold medal. It would also be fantastic for football and the Olympic Games. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.”
Source: Ambito
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