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Today March 1, 2022 10 years have passed since Lionel Messi’s first goal with the shirt of the Argentina team.
That day, the albiceleste team, at that time led by José Néstor Pékerman, was defeated 3-2 in a friendly match against the Croatian national team.
The Argentine star would score the goal that put the South American nation ahead 2-1.
As a curiosity, this match marked the debut of Luka Modric with the senior team of Croatia.
The first goal of “Lío” with Argentina was his letter of introduction and what he would show during his excellent career: run to the right, towards the diagonal towards the center, and from the crescent he shot positioned at the goalkeeper’s right post.
That has been his favorite move, not only with the albiceleste, but also with Barcelona and now with Paris Saint Germain.
Today, Messi can boast of being the top scorer of the history of the Argentine national team with 80 goals scored in 158 matches played.
This list is completed by Gabriel Omar Batistuta, who is second with 56 goals and the podium is closed by Sergio “Kun“ Agüero with 42.
Debut with Argentina
In August of 2008 on “10” premiered with the Argentine national team. Messi, With 18 just turned years old, he entered the second part in substitution of Lisandro López in a match against Hungary and won the South American draw with a score of 2-1.
That was a match that the Argentine Football Association had to move quickly to finalize, since from Spain they handled information that they intended to summon “Lío” with the Spanish team (at that time, “Lío” was part of the FC youth academy. Barcelona and had dual nationality).
However, it was never a secret that Messi always was willing to defend the colors of his native country.
Achievements
If Lionel Messi was criticized for anything, it was beyond the Gold Medal won at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, had never achieved any title with the senior team of your country.
That drought ended last year. After many attempts, defeats in finals, controversy after giving up wearing the albiceleste shirt and returning, Lionel Messi won the long-awaited title with his country.
In the middle of last year, The Argentine national team became the champion of the Americas after defeating its counterpart from Brazil at the Maracaná stadium (1-0, goal by Ángel Di María) and Messi, as captain, raised the Cup.
Today the “Champion of America” is outlined as one of the candidate teams to win the FIFA Soccer World Cup, to be played this year in Qatar.
Messi still has the opportunity to close with a clasp gold what has been an excellent career as a footballer.
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