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Leandro Paredes talks about Argentina national team, his his position, more

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Leandro Paredes spoke about the Argentina national team, coach Lionel Scaloni and more.

An integral part of the Argentina national team, Leandro Paredes has been part of the rebuild from the start. Since coach Lionel Scaloni took charge of the team, Paredes has found himself part of the team. Speaking in an interview with 90 Minutos de Fútbol, here’s what the Argentine had to say about Scaloni:

“Us, who are part of the generational change, we’re hand in hand with him. He is very lose to us and very open, if you want to ask him something, he has no problems.”

Paredes also spoke about his place in the team:

“I’m confident in my position and the coach too. That’s what is important. The rest can think what they want.”

Regarding the team:

“There’s a very nice group being put together with very good people and incredible players. It’s important for any national team to be that united.”

On this day in 1999, Gabriel Batistuta scores thunderous goal for Fiorentina vs. Arsenal

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Gabriel Batistuta was known for his rocket like shots and on October 27, 1999, the Argentine lit up the old Wembley.

Batistuta was among the best number 9s to ever grace a football pitch. For Argentina, he was by far and large the best of his generation and no one has matched him since. Spending much of his career with Fiorentina, Batistuta scored many memorable goals. One of which happened on this day 21 years ago.

It was a Champions League match involving Fiorentina and Arsenal, a group B match with Fiorentina winning 1-0 and knocking Arsenal out. With the score at 0-0, Batistuta would receive the ball right on the edge of the penalty area. A drag forward with his left foot, acceleration from the Argentine and goal with his right foot. A thunderous shot would give Fiorentina the 1-0 lead and the winner.

Diego Maradona: “I want to score with my right hand vs. England”

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Diego Maradona, who turns 60 years of age on Friday, mentioned that he would like to score one more goal vs. England.

Maradona, regarded by many as the greatest to ever grace a football pitch, turns 60 in a few days and he recently sat down with France Football for an interview. Speaking with the publication, Maradona commented on a few things and also revealed his birthday wish. Here’s what he had to say:

“I dream of scoring another goal against England but with my right hand.”

In a tongue in cheek comment, Maradona was obviously referring to his Hand of God goal which he scored against England at the 1986 World Cup. He also commented on a potential move to Marseille:

“Those in charge of Marseille were in contact with me and offered to double my salary. I was playing at Napoli and president Ferlaino told me that if we were to win the UEFA Cup, he would let me go.

Bernard Tapie (president of Marseille at the time) and Michel Hidalgo (his sporting manager) even came to see me in Italy to make an offer and for us to discuss it together. Once I returned to Naples (the meeting took place in Milan), I said to Ferlaino:”

“Thank you president for all the beautiful years, I’m leaving.”

“At that moment, he started to play dumb as if he didn’t understand and he backed off. End of story.”

Argentine Champions League preview: Lionel Messi vs. Paulo Dybala, more

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Lionel Messi and FC Barcelona vs. Paulo Dybala and Juventus headlines this week’s Argentine Champions League preview with both teams looking to top the group.

Messi managed a goal in the first match but he wasn’t the only Argentine to manage to get on the score sheet. Sergio Aguero and Alejandro Gomez also each managed a goal each. Here are the matches for this week:

Tuesday:

Lokomotiv Moscow vs. Bayern Munich

Shakhtar Donetsk vs. Inter Milan (Lautaro Martínez)

Olympique de Marseille (Leonardo Balerdi, Darío Benedetto) vs. Manchester City (Sergio Agüero)

Liverpool vs. FC Midtjylland

Borussia Monchengladbach vs. Real Madrid

Atletico Madrid (Ángel Correa) vs. Red Bull Salzburg

FC Porto (Agustín Marchesín) vs. Olympiacos (Maximiliano Lovera)

Atalanta (José Luis Palomino, Alejandro Gómez, Cristian Romero) vs. Ajax (Lisandro Martínez, Nicolás Tagliafico)


Wednesday:

FC Krasnodar vs. Chelsea (Willy Caballero)

Istanbul Başakşehir F.K. vs. PSG (Leandro Paredes, Mauro Icardi, Ángel Di María)

Ferencváros vs. Dynamo Kyiv

Juventus (Paulo Dybala) vs. FC Barcelona (Lionel Messi)

Club Brugge vs. Lazio (Joaquín Correa, Gonzalo Escalante)

Manchester United (Marcos Rojo, Sergio Romero) vs. RB Leipzig

Borussia Dortmund vs. Zenit Saint Petersburg (Sebastián Driussi)

Sevilla (Lucas Ocampos, Marcos Acuña, Franco Vázquez) vs. Stade Rennais

As we reported earlier, Sergio Agüero is out injured which means he will miss Manchester City’s match against Olympique de Marseille. Leonardo Balerdi, who scored in Marseille’s last match and Dario Benedetto would be the only Argentine representatives in the match.

Atalanta hosting Ajax will be the match with five Argentine players, some of which are in contention of making the Argentina national team.

Sergio Agüero could miss Argentina World Cup qualifiers due to injury

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Sergio Agüero is set to miss next month’s World Cup qualifiers for Argentina due to injury.

After missing the October World Cup qualifiers due to injury, there were reports that Agüero would be included in next month’s team. However, the Manchester City striker was injured and had to be substituted off for his team in their last match and per reports, Agüero will not be available for the World Cup qualifiers next month.

Agüero may not be included but as we reported earlier, Angel Di Maria is set to be back in the Argentina squad for the matches.

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