Breaking News: Argentina versus Israel called off

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Jorge Sampaoli
Jorge Sampaoli, coach of the Argentina National Team.

Argentina’s friendly match versus Israel is reportedly canceled..

Per reports coming out of the media in Argentina, the game between Argentina and Israel has been canceled. At the moment, there are rumors that the players and the coach did not want to play the match but those are just rumors at the moment.

We will keep you updated on the situation as it develops.

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  2. All Muslims & Maldivian people proud of you. # <p Messi # <p teammates. Thank you so much. Insha Allah. Hope this time Argentina will be World Champion.

  3. I have been eliminated before the world cup even started.
    “If the game is canceled, it would represent one of the biggest successes of the pro Palestinian Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement in recent years” if they win the world cup, it will be a great symbol.
    “Macri reportedly told Netanyahu that he had no control over the team’s decision, according to a senior Israeli official quoted in Hebrew-language media”.
    if that’s they will making sure Argentina doesn’t win the world cup.

    • The same way they got Israel to qualify and win the WC? Please.. all they can do is blow people up.. the Putin mafia will make sure that doesn’t happen.

  4. How stupid is the FA and Mauricio Macri instead of protecting the national team, they are throwing the team under the bus. no its not me, is the team decision.
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Argentinian President Mauricio Macri to urge him to intercede with the Argentinian authorities to try and forestall the cancellation, the Ynet news site quoted a senior Israeli official as saying.
    “The team is hesitant to come to Israel because of all the pressure that has been placed on them,” the official said.
    Macri reportedly told Netanyahu that he had no control over the team’s decision, according to a senior Israeli official quoted in Hebrew-language media. The official said there was slim chance the game could be salvaged.
    Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev — the driving force behind staging the game in Jerusalem — accused “terror groups and BDS” of being behind the cancellation, and expressed hopes Argentina would still go ahead with the game.

  5. Ho no! no! Argentina just created more problems for themselves. Now we will have to worry about referees too, you don’t say no to Israel unless you want more problems; mark my words now this becomes political. They will make sure Argentina lost in the group stage.

  7. If it’s the security situation in Israel that has promoted cancellation, the game should be played in Spain instead. If any of the minnows of europe are chosen for a quickly arranged game it wouldn’t do us any good. AFA has messed up again though the entire squad was available for nearly a month. They couldn’t even arrange two proper friendlies. We are woefully short on preparations. With goat or without goat be prepared for a very early exit.

  8. thank Messiah! This game was cancelled. For once good concience beat out money and bullshit violent monkey brained ideology. We are winning this world cup!

      • its seems like am wont see Argentina win the world cup in my life time, am so upset; how they get themselves involved in this mess.
        If the game is canceled, it would represent one of the biggest successes of the pro Palestinian Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement in recent years.
        Macri reportedly told Netanyahu that he had no control over the team’s decision, according to a senior Israeli official quoted in Hebrew-language media.
        if that’s they will making sure Argentina doesn’t win the world cup.

  9. Awesome news. I always thought that game in Jerusalem would be an insult to the millions of children and families from Palestine who were killed and some were forced to leave their homes and farms. Great job Argentina Team. Justice Justice Justice.

  10. I have always believed in that country it had given birth to che Guevara and maradona two real man with guts and with a strong belief in justice vamos argentina vamos messi vamos football and vamos justice

  14. When I was a child in Argentina, around 1976-1977, Argentina national team would play club teams like Boca River, Independiente all the time. This was great for the NT because these teams were usually powerhouse teams. I don’t know why we don’t do this anymore. I don’t see anything wrong with that, or having a charity game of our first 11 versus the second 11 or mixing teams up.

  16. Good decision. Unnecessary attention created by this match. Sampoali is also happy. We should train hard behind closed door and do another friendly if possible.

  17. I don’t try to get into the whole Israeli and Palestinian debate because that is not my place even though I have my own opinion on the matter. I don’t want Messi to be an Antichrist figure, this need to end now…This is the reason Messi won’t win the world cup I believe, he will be hail more than just a football icon, people will take onto him as they would for the Antichrist. Messi posing with Goats, do people even know what the Goat symbol/head represent? The other day against Haiti Messi went down to the floor and while coming back to his feet out of nowhere he made the horn symbol with his fingers. I just hope Messi didn’t sell his soul to the dark side (which is represented by the horn symbol) in order to be a part of an illustrious group of world cup winners. [ This is my opinion though, no need for anyone to pull out their hair over by comment]

    • Antichrist, selling his soul to the dark side? Lol. What cockamamie nonsense is that? There is no god, Satan, antichrist or anything.

      Smh.

    • Kid–what has gotten into you…Messi is the opposite of the Antichrist…rest assured. He requested that the AFA cancel the game bc it would hurt the Messi brand. Argentina can schedule two games in the US in Oct and make up the loss funds. It was a terrible idea by the AFA to schedule that game there one week before the WC. Happy to see it cancelled. I would hate to see fans join the darkside (Cristina) over a friendly.

      • Kid–what has gotten into you…Messi is the opposite of the Antichrist…rest assured. He requested that the AFA cancel the game bc it would hurt the Messi brand. Argentina can schedule two games in the US in Oct and make up the loss funds. It was a terrible idea by the AFA to schedule that game there one week before the WC. Happy to see it cancelled. I would hate to see fans join the darkside (Cristina) over a friendly.

      • I do hope that Putin, his government and the Russian people get behind Messi and if we have to win a game or two in the knockout stage bc of questionable calls..I will take it. We are owed a few. No penalty by Sensini in the 1990 final and Higuain got clobbered by Neuer in what should have been a penalty for Argentina in a game that we were the protagonist/playing better.

        • Referees is matter of FIFA not has to do Putin or Russian government. FIFA was always against us from 1990 and after. the referees and FIFA except 2010 in all other world cups made damage to our team. i have many examples but really i need so much time to write all. i don t have mood now.
          just in 1990 final NOT ONLY the penalty was fake but this Mexican shitty referee give us 2 RED CARDS too. with 9 players we couldn t score after fake penalty and we lost the world cup. i still remember myself as child then to cry and watching Diego and our players crying too in the ceremony.

    • What the heck did I just read. Making horn symbol as he got up?? Sounds like something the West boro Baptist Church would say. Pure insanity

  18. Hats off to the team! Honestly, didn’t expect them to act on ethical values. But they have done just that. Great job guys!

  19. Great news.. stand for your values and good things happenz
    Isreal is a criminal organized-crime nation, based on murder, racism and oppression towards any jew.
    This match was only meant for political reasons.
    Viva Palestina!

  20. Argentina should just organize a game against a Catalonia XI made up of players from Barcelona, RCD Espanyol and Girona. The problem is, some of these players are probably on vacation already.

  21. Ukraine
    Norway
    Luxembourg
    Slovakia
    Netherland
    Bosnia
    Montenegro
    Bulgaria
    Greece

    Available for friendly if arranged quickly

  22. NOOOOOO MESSI HAS TO PLAY IN ISRAEL LIKE MARADONA IT’S HIS FATE THIS ISN’T GOOD NEWS

  24. Great Salute to AFA for having the such a courage to do so. Oppressive Israel want this match for nothing but political gain. capturing Jerusalem by killing hundreds Palestine children and women. True Love you Argentina from every part of world for this decision except terrorist state Israel and Donald trump. Please don’t mix football with politics

  25. This is definitely a sad news in general, because people mixing politics & football is not good.
    If Israel used Messi & our team as a tool of political message, this is bad… Same goes to the FA president of Palastein, he asking Argentina fans, communally, to target Messi & team is very much criminal in nature & highly condemnable…

    But that aside, as a fan of Argentina team I’m a bit happy for two reasons.

    1. Avoiding a travel from Barcelona to Israel before that to Russia is good for team…

    2. More importantly i wanted to see a team Better than Israel. Israel is a poor football team (with all respect to the powerful Jewish country)

    If the news is true, i hope AFA can manage a friendly with a team at camp nuo, preferably a stronger team, which will help our tactics & build-up to the group matches.. and as our senior member kid suggested, a team like Iceland..
    Because that is the most important match for the team right now. Everything will depends on our match against Iceland.

  26. Its a pity that we need a team in the last minute.
    But am really glad we dont play in Israel. That game should not have been organised in the first place. Sampaoli was clearly not happy even if he didnt specify the political reasons, and rightly so.
    It should be ok to play Catalunya team and they are more strong that Isarel.

  27. Hats off to sampaoli and our captain, Messi! Argentina stands up for the oppressed just like Ché so many years ago! Shame on Israel whom switched locations to Jerusalem and making this game a political statement! Salud Che! Vamos Argentina! Just sucks for our preparation for the World Cup. Hopefully we get a quality opponent in short notice.

  28. this things is tragic to happened before the world cup. or you don t arrange from begin one friendly like this or if you have arrange it finally you go and you play. this is komik organization. some people inside AFA is stupid.

  29. Except money there was no reason for the game. Nigeria plays Czech republic to prepare for Croatia match, Iceland play Ghana to prepare for Nigeria match, Croatia plays Brazil etc. Haiti and Israel are similar to who? Cameroon would have been a good choice or Scotland or Slovakia.

    No arab anger towards Argentina if the match is indeed cancelled.

    • Haiti is as good as most of the African teams. Remember Haiti drew with Italy 2-2 and only lost to Spain 2-1. The problem wasn’t Haiti, that was a sending off game being played in Buenos Aires. Many teams were not going to travel to Argentina for free only to lose by 4-5 goals especially those taking part at the 2018 world cup. Argentina try to play Costa Rica for the sending off game but they decline to participate, and this is understandably going into the world cup for a team like Costa Rica who wouldn’t want to lose by a big score line margin. I’m sure the AFA try to invite a European team who likely decline to travel half way around the world for a meaningless game. The problem is the AFA, they should have had at least two games organize to be played in Catalonia. Barcelona stadium pitch is closed off, but the games could have been hosted by RCD Espanyol and Girona FC stadiums given that both clubs are from Catalonia.

      • Maybe Haiti is just as good, but different type of style. African teams usually have physical strong players (think Yaya Toure) and different approach. Senegal, Ivory Coast etc would be good practice for us.

        • Argentina was planning to play Cameroon for a very long time and that didn’t materialize out. Most of the African players are in Europe, I just don’t see any of them making a trip to play in a meaningless friendly game in Buenos Aires unless big money was involve. I could understand several of these teams traveling to South America to play against Argentina if the world cup was on the continent just to experience the whole festivity of the world cup atmosphere. Yaya Toure retired from international football. Argentina have already played against Spain, Italy, Brazil, Nigeria and Russia to name a few since Sampaoli took charge.

    • Argentina just already set WC for african team..with friendly with nigeria themself..that was more then preparation

  30. Argentina should try and arrange a game against either Finland or Norway in Catalonia because they’re similar teams to Iceland.

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