Jeremías Ledesma of Cádiz has stated that he wants to be part of the Argentina national team for the World Cup.

Ledesma has had a solid season with Cádiz. He has kept 11 clean sheets, most recently in a 1-0 win vs. FC Barcelona where he made six saves, three of which from inside the penalty area.

The Argentine was the goalkeeper at the recent Olympics where he was one of the better players. Speaking in an interview with ESPN, here is what he had to say:

“I always dream of that call and these matches, like the one against Barcelona, are ones that make it closer to achieve your goal.

“Gero Rulli, “Emi” Martínez, Musso and Franco (Armani) are at a very high level but I have to continue on this path to be closer to that call up.

“It’s difficult that they call you up from an Argentine club if it’s not Boca or River. When I got to Spain, I played two games and they called me up. It’s logical because I am in the second most important league in the world.”

Sergio Agüero has been inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame.

Agüero is part of the latest inductees into the Premier League greats. The Premier League announced on Thursday a list of former greats which are inducted and the Argentine is one of them.

Scoring one of the most memorable goals in Premier League history with Manchester City, the now retired 33 year old spent 10 seasons at the club becoming an absolute legend.

He broke several club records and even Premier League records, one of which was scoring 184 league goals in 275 games as he became the player with the most Premier League goals for a single club.

Here are the eight players that have been inducted:

Patrick Vieira
Wayne Rooney
Ian Wright
Peter Schmeichel
Paul Scholes
Didier Drogba
Vincent Kompany
Sergio Agüero

Congratulations to Kun for the accolade!

Argentina will play Brazil on June 11 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia.

After several months of speculation, the match has been confirmed. It was announced by the Victorian government on Wednesday that the match will be played at the MCG on 11 June.

This would be a repeat of their World Cup qualifying match from last September which was stopped after five minutes due to COVID protocols. More than 95,000 fans are expected for the match. The state tourism, sport and major events minister Martin Pakula had this to say about the match:

“To have two of the most successful football teams in the world return to the MCG to continue their longstanding rivalry reinforces our position as one of the world’s great sporting cities and Australia’s event capital.

“Football is known as the world game and a match of this calibre will put millions of eyes on Melbourne and attract thousands of visitors to Victoria.

“Certainly our expectation based on the discussions we’ve had, is the players like Messi and Neymar will be here.

“We can’t be 100 per cent certain about that. But we’ve been told this is an important preparation match for them in the lead-up to the World Cup and we’d expect both teams to send very strong squads.”

For Argentina, they play Italy on June 1 at Wembley in London, England prior to flying out to Australia for this match. The last time these two teams played in Australia was back in 2017 where Argentina won 1-0 with Gabriel Mercado scoring.