At the age of 37, Messi is still the inspiration for the Argentine team to conquer the Copa America 2024 championship. Coach Lionel Scaloni also summoned many players who won the 2022 World Cup to this list.
The Argentine team entered the 2024 Copa America as the number one candidate for the championship. They are the defending champions of this tournament as well as the World Cup. Since winning the 2022 World Cup, La Albiceleste has maintained good form.
Messi is the inspiration of the Argentina team (Photo: Reuters).
Accordingly, the Tango team has won 11/12 recent matches in all competitions. In particular, they defeated Brazil 1-0 in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers . In this tournament, Argentina is also leading with 15 points after 6 matches.
At Copa America 2024, coach Lionel Scaloni has summoned many players who won the 2022 World Cup. Among them, Lionel Messi is still the leader. Even though he is 37 years old, El Pulga continues to be an extremely important factor for the national team. In the Inter Miami shirt, Messi also played impressively, contributing 10 goals and 9 assists after 10 appearances for the American club.
Many players close to Messi such as Enzo Fernandez, De Paul, Di Maria… are on this list. Lisandro Martinez was also called up even though he has not fully recovered from his injury at Man Utd.
Dybala was left out despite playing well in the AS Roma shirt (Photo: Mundo Albiceleste).
Compared to the 2022 World Cup, coach Lionel Scaloni has named four players: Juan Foyth (Villarreal), Papu Gomez (Monza), Thiago Almada (Atlanta United) and Paulo Dybala (AS Roma). Dybala’s absence created many surprises.
This season, the striker born in 1993 played impressively for AS Roma, contributing 16 goals in all competitions and was honored three times as best of the month in Serie A. Coach Scaloni has not commented yet. explains Dybala’s absence. For a long time before that, this player hardly played officially on the national team.
Before the Copa America, coach Scaloni had to reduce the team to 26 players. Meaning, he will have to eliminate three names from the preliminary squad. In the near future, Argentina will have two friendly matches before entering the Copa America against Ecuador and Guatemala.
In the upcoming tournament, Argentina is in the same group as Peru, Chile and Canada. They will play their opening match against Canada on June 20.
Copa America 2024 takes place in 14 stadiums in the US. This tournament starts on June 20 and ends on July 14.
