Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni has announced his team for the two World Cup qualifying matches against Uruguay and Brazil.
The World champions will be playing their first of two World Cup qualifying matches on November 16 against Uruguay with the second match on November 21 against Brazil.
Lionel Scaloni has called up 28 players for the World Cup qualifiers with Paulo Dybala and Giovani Lo Celso returning to the team. Pablo Maffeo, who is born in Barcelona to an Argentine mother, is called up to the Argentina national team for the first time as is Francisco Ortgega of Olympiacos.
Alejandro Garnacho of Manchester United and Thiago Almada of Atlanta United are not part of the team. Almada is with the Argentina U23 team for their friendly matches against Japan. Here are the players that Scaloni has picked for the two matches in November:
Goalkeepers:
Emiliano Martínez (Aston Villa)
Franco Armani (River Plate)
Juan Musso (Atalanta)
Walter Benitez (PSV)
Defenders:
Gonzalo Montiel (Nottingham Forest)
Pablo Maffeo (RCD Mallorca)
Nahuel Molina (Atletico Madrid)
Germán Pezzella (Real Betis)
Cristian Romero (Tottenham Hotspur)
Lucas Martínez Quarta (Fiorentina)
Nicolás Otamendi (Benfica)
Marcos Acuña (Sevilla)
Francisco Ortega (Olympiacos)
Nicolás Tagliafico (Lyon)
Midfielders:
Leandro Paredes (AS Roma)
Guido Rodríguez (Real Betis)
Enzo Fernández (Chelsea)
Rodrigo De Paul (Atletico Madrid)
Exequiel Palacios (Bayer Leverkusen)
Giovani Lo Celso (Tottenham Hotspur)
Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool)
Forwards:
Paulo Dybala (AS Roma)
Ángel Di María (Benfica)
Lionel Messi (Inter Miami)
Julián Álvarez (Manchester City)
Lautaro Martínez (Inter)
Nicolás González (Fiorentina)
Lucas Ocampos (Sevilla)
