Just a week after helping Botafogo win their first-ever Copa Libertadores, Thiago Almada secured the 2024 Brasileirão by defeating São Paulo 2-1 at home on the final matchday. This victory gave the club its third Brazilian League title in history, adding to their wins in 1968 and 1995.

The 23-year-old Argentine midfielder played a key role for the Brazilian team this season and added another major trophy to his collection:

2022 World Cup

2024 Copa Libertadores

2024 Brasileirão

With his stellar performances this year, Almada strengthens his chances of earning a bigger role in Lionel Scaloni’s Argentina squad in 2025.

Kylian Mbappé spoke about playing alongside Lionel Messi at Paris Saint-Germain and how it was with Messi after Argentina won the World Cup.

Mbappé and Lionel Messi played together at Paris Saint-Germain for two seasons and during their time together, they played against one another in the final of the 2022 World Cup. Speaking in an interview on CliqueTV, here is what Mbappé had to say about playing with Messi:

“Messi does everything well. We can all learn from a guy like him.

“I would go to him and ask him “How do you this? How do you do that?”

He also spoke about speaking to Messi after the World Cup final when they were in France:

“The day I saw Messi after the World Cup, I was raging. But that final brought us closer, we laughed.

“He told me “You already won one, I can win one too.”

The Argentine Football Association (AFA) signed an agreement with the Province of Buenos Aires to make the Estadio Único Diego Armando Maradona in La Plata the new home of the Argentina national team starting in 2025.

The stadium has 53,000 seats, which is 30,000 fewer than El Monumental, the current home of the team.

The venue will host all categories of the national team, the Copa Argentina, and potentially serve as a venue for the final of the Copa Sudamericana or Libertadores.

The stadium hosted the U-20 World Cup in 2023.