Messi and Di Maria to the Olympic Games? Mascherano says that he will invite them

The Argentine Under 23 team defeated Brazil by the minimum (1-0) and achieved the final objective of the Pre-Olympic Tournament held in Caracas, Venezuela, qualifying for the Paris Olympic Games to be held in the current year, and also left out of said competition to its classic rival. The goal of victory and classification of those led by Javier Mascherano, was scored by Luciano Gondouforward belonging to the Argentina Juniors squad.

Messi is a possibility for Paris 2024

Thiago Almada, captain of the U23 team that is now Olympic, was the first to express his desire and satisfaction if the Argentine star and leader of Inter Miami of Major League Soccer, Lionel Messi, “I want to go to the Olympic Games.” “It would be a beautiful dream for him to be able to accompany those of us who have to be in Paris.””, While Luciano Gondou, the scorer of the day stated that “one has to add from wherever he has to be.” “It is a dream for me to be here and I tried to make the most of it,” he commented.

Javier Mascherano made it clear that he will do everything in his power to be able to take both Messi and ‘Fideo’, Ángel Di María, to Paris.

“Everyone already knows my relationship with Leo (Messi), the friendship I have. A player like him has the doors open for him to join us, then it will depend on him and his commitments, obviously”, he highlighted. And he added: “He congratulated us, very happy. We all know that Leo is a big fan of the National Team and follows all the youth teams. Delighted (to join him for the Olympic Games). There will be time to talk, but he congratulated us on the classification, not much more “

In relation to Fideo, Mascherano commented the following: “I spoke with Ángel, but from what I read it was already closed after the Copa América. They have earned the right to decide what they want, but obviously we will try to invite them and see.”

“One understands that during the time of the Senior National Team, there is the Copa América and it is not easy. You have to be careful, obviously we are going to talk, everyone knows my relationship with both Ángel and Leo, we are friends. We have a spectacular relationship, as a coach I obviously have the obligation to invite them, but one also understands that they have other commitments and it also depends on that, it is not that simple.”

“There is also time to talk, now the important thing is to enjoy, thank this group of players who were here and gave us the possibility of not only qualifying but having played these seven games the way they played, they had a very good tournament, always being ourselves, carrying out an idea of ​​moving forward and being the protagonist. Today we got what we deserved,” he explained.

Argentina and its Olympic history

With two gold medals (Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008) and two silver medals (Amsterdam 1928 and Atlanta 1996), Argentina will seek to climb to the top of the podium for the third time in a new Olympic Games, the first being in Amsterdam, when he won the silver medal after a first-level tournament where they obtained victories over the United States (11-2), Belgium (6-3) and Egypt (6-0) and a final against Uruguay that ended 1-1, forcing a tiebreaker match, with a 2-1 defeat at the Olympic Stadium in the capital of the Netherlands.

In the edition organized by Rome in 1960, Argentina joined a group where it lived with the teams of Denmark, Poland and Tunisia. Despite winning two games, and only losing one, they did not manage to reach the final phasel. The Tokyo 1964 experience included only two games: a 1-1 draw against Ghana and a 3-2 defeat against Japan.

For Seoul 1988, Argentina qualified for the quarterfinals, where they lost 1-0 to Brazil. For his part, in Atlanta 1996 he brought the second silver medal by losing the final 3-2 to Nigeria; and in Athens 2004 he had one of his best performances in events of this magnitude, won each and every one of his matches, and won the first gold under the leadership of Marcelo Bielsa. In the final they beat Paraguay 1-0 with a goal from Carlos Tevez.

In Beijing 2008 the second gold medal would come and this time consecutivelywith Sergio Batista as coach, beating Brazil 3-0 in the semifinals and narrowly beating Nigeria 1-0 in the final with a great goal from Ángel Di María.

The Albiceleste team was not present at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Argentina was present again at an Olympic Game in Rio de Janeiro, but the Albiceleste did not have a good participation, since they were eliminated in the group stage after achieving a victory, a draw and a defeat. Finally, the same fate occurred in Tokyo 2020 where they did not advance beyond the qualifying phase.

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