Alejandro Garnacho, Valentín Barcos, Nicolás Domínguez and Taty Castellanos are back in the Argentina national team.
Garnacho, Barcos, Domínguez and Castellanos are the four players back in the Argentina national team for the June World Cup qualifiers. Garnacho was part of the team for the November matches but was not picked for the March World Cup qualifying matches against Uruguay and Brazil.
Valentín Barco has only played one match for Argentina and that was in March 2024, a 3-0 win against El Salvador.
Nicolás Domínguez last played for Argentina in November 2021, a 0-0 draw against Brazil while Taty Castellanos played againat Paraguay in November.
The preliminary Argentina national team foreign list of players for the June World Cup qualifiers has been announced.
Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni has announced his team for the June World Cup Qualifying matches. Valentín Barco, Alejandro Garnacho, Nicolas Domínguez and Taty Castellanos return to the team.
Here are the names for the qualifying matches against Colombia and Chile:
Goalkeepers: Emiliano Martínez Gerónimo Rulli Walter Benítez
Young Argentines Santiago Castro and Benjamín Domínguez won the 2025 Coppa Italia with Bologna after defeating AC Milan 1-0 in the final on Wednesday at the Stadio Olimpico.
Santiago Castro started the match for Bologna and finished the tournament as the top assist provider, with three assists.
This marks Bologna’s first title in 51 years—the last one being the 1974 Coppa Italia. With this victory, the club has now won the Coppa Italia three times in its history.
It is also the first professional title in the careers of both Castro and Domínguez.
The Argentine Football Association (AFA) and the tech company Win Investments have launched a new project that will let fans and investors from all over the world invest in football players through blockchain technology.
The launch took place at the Lionel Andrés Messi training center in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires. It follows a partnership announced in February 2025 between AFA and Win. Thanks to this project, all football clubs in Argentina — from the top league to regional divisions — can now access Win’s financial system through the AFA.
The goal of the project is to help clubs get money in advance by turning their player development rights and future transfer earnings into digital tokens. These tokens can be bought by fans and investors. This system is supported by FIFA, making AFA the first football association in the world to officially use this kind of tool.
“This is a very important project for all of Argentine football and for every club,” said AFA President Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia. “Thanks to FIFA, we now have a way to allow fans to be part of a player’s journey, no matter the club or country. It’s a big step forward.”
Tapia also added, “Now anyone, anywhere in the world, can discover a young player and invest in their future. This is something new in world football, and today is a very special day.”
Valentín Jaremtchuk, CEO and co-founder of Win Investments, said, “This is a historic agreement. AFA is the first football federation to make our solution official. Now all Argentine clubs can use our system, and fans can be part of the transfer market.”
He also mentioned that fans can invest in big names like Lionel Messi, Paulo Dybala, Lautaro Martínez, and Enzo Fernández. “More than 650 fans have already won through our platform, and some of them joined us at the event,” he said.
Fans can use the Win app (on Android and iOS) to invest in player tokens starting from just 1,000 Argentine pesos — less than one U.S. dollar.
Facundo Buonanotte scored for Leicester City in their 2-2 away draw against Nottingham Forest on Matchday 36 of the Premier League.
The Argentine came on in the 61st minute and, 20 minutes later, with his team trailing 2-1, received a pass from Jamie Vardy. He drove into the box, faked a shot with his left foot, then finished with his right into the back of the net to equalize for his team.
After a strong second half of 2025 in which Buonanotte earned several starts, the 20-year-old Argentine has seen limited playing time in 2026—a season that will end with Leicester’s relegation to the second division.
