The Argentina national team will play against Mexico in the United States in October as the tour in China has been cancelled.
Argentina will not be touring China. According to Gastón Edul, Argentina’s tour in China between October 8 and October 14 has been cancelled.
Lionel Scaloni’s team will play Mexico in Chicago with a second match to be announced.
Alexis Mac Allister and Lautaro Martínez have been nominated for the 2025 Ballon d’Or award.
Mac Allister and Lautaro are the two Argentine players who are nominated for the award given to the best player. With Liverpool, Alexis won the Premier League while Lautaro made the Champions League final with Inter.
Julián Álvarez, who scored 33 goals with the Argentina national team and Atletico Madrid, has not been nominated.
Here are the nominees for the Ballon d’Or:
Jude Bellingham
Ousmane Dembélé
Gianluigi Donnarumma
Désiré Doué
Denzel Dumfries
Serhou Guirassy
Viktor Gyökeres
Erling Haaland
Achraf Hakimi
Harry Kane
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
Robert Lewandowski
Alexis Mac Allister
Lautaro Martínez
Kylian Mbappé
Scott McTominay
Nuno Mendes
João Neves
Michael Olise
Cole Palmer
Pedri
Raphinha
Declan Rice
Fabián Ruiz
Mohamed Salah
Virgil van Dijk
Vinícius Jr.
Vitinha
Florian Wirtz
Lamine Yamal
Emiliano Martínez has been nominated for the 2025 Yachine Trophy.
Martínez is nominated for the best goalkeeper award. The Argentine has won the last two Yachine trophies.
He has previously won it in 2023 and 2024, the last two years. Here are the nominees:
Alisson Becker
Yassine Bounou
Lucas Chevalier
Thibaut Courtois
Gianluigi Donnarumma
Emiliano Martínez
Jan Oblak
David Raya
Matz Sels
Yann Sommer
Emiliano Buendía scored and had an assist for Aston Villa in their 4-0 win against AS Roma.
Buendía was involved in both goals for Aston Villa in their friendly match win. With the score at 0-0, Aston Villa were awarded a free kick and it was Buendía who took it.
The Argentine would take the free kick and his effort would go into the top corner and he would score to give Aston Villa the 1-0 lead. With Aston Villa leading 2-0, Buendía would cross the ball into the penalty area and find Ollie Watkins who would score to give Aston Villa the 3-0 lead.
Emiliano Martínez would also start the match for Aston Villa while Matías Soulé would come on as a substite for AS Roma in the second half.
Rodrigo De Paul scored his first goal for Inter Miami in their 3-1 win against Pumas. De Paul got his first goal for his new club as Inter Miami qualified for the next round of the Leagues Cup.
With Pumas leading 1-0, it was a cross into the penalty area which was controlled by De Paul and the Argentine would pass the ball into the corner to score and draw Inter Miami level.
Lionel Messi, who is out injured, was in attendance.
Inter Miami with take a 2-1 lead off a penalty kick and Tadeo Allende would score as Inter Miami would get the win.
Rodrigo De Paul scores his first goal for Inter Miami! pic.twitter.com/2awlwp77SX
— Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) August 7, 2025
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