Messi, Di Maria included in Argentina Squad For Pre world cup Friendly Game

Lionel Scaloni coach of Argentina football team announced the pre world cup friendly match squad and in that list they added star forwards Lionel Messi and Angel Di Maria on the list.

As per Fixtures Argentina to play Honduras on 23 September at Miami and four days later against Jamaica in New York.

After this two friendly game team have to play another friendly match against UAE on 16th November just few days ahead of the world cup begins.

Roma’s Paulo Dybala, Julian Alvarez of Manchester City and Inter Milan forward Lautaro Martinez have also been called up to the 28-player squad.

The Albiceleste – Argentian who is currently going with unbeaten run of 33 Matches so they need to begin the world cup journey with same way. As per Fixtures Argentina’s Qatar world cup journey begin on 22 November match against Saudi Arabia as they included in the Group C. other two group stage matches they have to play against Mexico and Poland.

If we look at the Previous stats then Argentina most recently won the Fifa world cup in 1986 under the captaincy of late Diego Maradona.

Squad:

Goalkeepers: Franco Armani (River Plate), Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa/ENG), Geronimo Rulli (Villarreal/ESP)

Defenders: Gonzalo Montiel (Sevilla/ESP), Nahuel Molina (Atletico Madrid/ESP), German Pezzella (Real Betis/ESP), Facundo Medina (Lens/FRA), Cristian Romero (Tottenham/ENG), Nehuen Perez (Udinese/ITA), Nicolas Otamendi (Benfica/POR), Lisandro Martinez (Manchester United/ENG), Nicolas Tagliafico (Lyon/FRA), Marcos Acuna (Sevilla/ESP)

Midfielders: Leandro Paredes (Juventus/ITA), Guido Rodriguez (Real Betis/ESP), Enzo Fernandez (Benfica/POR), Rodrigo De Paul (Atletico Madrid/ENG), Alejandro Gomez (Sevilla/ENG), Giovani Lo Celso (Villarreal/ENG), Alexis Mac Allister (Brighton/ENG)

Forwards: Paulo Dybala (Roma/ITA), Angel Correa (Atletico Madrid/ESP), Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain/FRA), Thiago Almada (Atlanta United/USA), Angel Di Maria (Juventus/ITA), Joaquin Correa (Inter Milan/ITA), Lautaro Martinez (Inter Milan/ITA), Julian Alvarez (Manchester City/ENG)