The Argentina national team will play their first match as World Cup winners and it is against Panama.
Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni has named the same eleven which started and won the World Cup final. He has not made any changes to the eleven which lifted the trophy.
Dibu Martínez; Tagliafico, Otamendi, Romero, Molina; Mac Allister, Enzo, De Paul; Lionel Messi, Julián Álvarez and Ángel Di María
Facundo Buonanotte, Máximo Perrone, Lautaro Blanco and Valentín Carboni all sang in front of the Argentina national team as part of their initiation.
As is tradition with many teams, the new players sing in front of the entire team as part of their welcoming. For this month, it is four young players.
Buonanotte of Brighton, Máximo Perrone of Manchester City, Lautaro Blanco of Elche and Valentín Carboni of Inter. World Cup winner Ángel Di María posted on his Instagram page videos of all four singing. In Máximo Perrone’s video, Lionel Messi can be seen eating and laughing.
The Argentina national team play Panama on Thursday at a ready Monumental stadium to celebrate winning the World Cup!
Facundo Buonanotte singing and being initiated into the Argentina national team! 🇦🇷 pic.twitter.com/aFNws2rJ7E
— Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) March 23, 2023
Máximo Perrone singing and being initiated into the Argentina national team! 🇦🇷 pic.twitter.com/afK6YNc4Pf
— Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) March 23, 2023
Lautaro Blanco singing and being initiated into the Argentina national team! Via Ángel Di María Instagram. 🇦🇷 pic.twitter.com/AZ4565HE5r
— Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) March 23, 2023
Valentín Carboni singing and being initiated into the Argentina national team! Via Ángel Di María Instagram. 🇦🇷 pic.twitter.com/qHEPepgvhR
— Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) March 23, 2023
The Monumental stadium is ready to welcome World Cup champions Argentina!
On Thursday, the Argentina national team will host Panama in a friendly match at the Monumental stadium and everything is ready for the celebrations. There will be singers and a host for the match.
River Plate’s official Twitter account posted a video displaying the current look of the stadium, welcoming the World Cup champions.
El Monumental is ready for the World Cup champions! 😍🇦🇷pic.twitter.com/SEDZnLOKIc
— Mundo Albiceleste ⭐🌟⭐🇦🇷 (@MundoAlbicelest) March 23, 2023
Lionel Messi at the Monumental in Argentina! Via @RiverPlate. 🇦🇷 pic.twitter.com/Ko8735h34H
— Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) March 22, 2023
Gonzalo Montiel, Julián Álvarez, Enzo Fernández and Franco Armani at the Monumental with Argentina! 🇦🇷 pic.twitter.com/khb2p47xws
— Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) March 22, 2023
Lionel Messi could break a few records when Argentina play Panama on Thursday.
Messi could add a few records to his name when the Argentina national team play Panama. The first is reaching 800 career goals.
The Argentine World Cup winner is presently on 799 career goals and one more would bring him to 800. The second record is one with the Argentina national team.
He is presently on 98 goals with Argentina and two more would get him to 100 goals with his country. A third record is that of hat tricks.
If Messi scores a hat trick, he will reach 50 hat tricks in his career. And the last record would be that of the four goals.
He has scored five goals in a match with Argentina but has never ended a match with only four goals. Should Messi score four goals and not five, he will have scored his first poker with Argentina.
Ángel Di María trained with the Argentina national team on Wednesday and spoke to the media afterwards.
Di María is the Argentina hero, the player for the big games and the finals. A goal scorer in the Copa America, Finalissima and World Cup finals, there is nothing that he hasn’t done in world football. And now the World Cup winner is in Argentina for the team’s match against Panama on Thursday. Speaking to the media after the training, here is what he had to say:
“I am very happy. The joy of being world champion is something that we enjoy every day and to see how the people are is something very special.
“It’s crazy what people are doing, what happened with Leo the other day at the restaurant… The people are very happy and we have to enjoy it. Let’s hope that tomorrow will be a beautiful day, that people come in calmly and that it’s a nice celebration, that nothing serious will happen.
“Every time I come here, it’s a great joy. Every moment fills your heart, it is the most beautiful place you can be in.
“The first thing is to win tomorrow and to continue on the same path. One stage is over and now we have the World Cup qualifiers and after that the Copa America, which is what we are aiming at.”
