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Messi plays his 1,000 game

From Barcelona-Espanyol-0 on 16 October 2004 to Argentina-Poland-0 last Wednesday, the winner of seven Ballon d’Ors has played 999 matches. And today, against Australia, he will be number 1,000.

The stratospheric numbers of his 18-year professional career indicate that in that number of games, Messi has scored 788 goals and provided 348 assists.

In his fifth World Cup, the 35-year-old from Rosario became the Argentine with the most games played (22) and surpassed Diego Armando Maradona’s record.

Di María and Messi, on the podium of the players who completed the most dribbles in the group stage

With eight dribbles completed in the group stage of the Qatar World Cup 2022, Lionel Messi He shares third place on the podium with the Frenchman Mbappé, the Ghanaian Mohammed Kudus, Alphonso Davies and the Senegalese Ismaïla Sarr.

While, you say maria he is second with nine completed dribbles.

First place goes to German Jamal Musialawho far surpasses his pursuers: he completed 17 dribbles in the first instance of the World Cup.

Messi plays his 1,000th match against Australia

This Saturday against Australia, for the round of 16 of the Qatar World Cup 2022, Lionel Messi will reach a staggering number: the 1,000 matches official as a professional footballer.

The 999 he accumulates are divided as follows: 778 with the shirt of Barcelona54 with the paris saint germain and 167 with the Argentina national team.

Empire State projected the colors of the Argentine flag onto its summit for its eighth-place classification

the iconic Empire state of New York has decided to project the flags of the 16 countries that have qualified for the round of 16 of the Qatar World Cup 2022. The first to appear was, obviously, that of the United States, while hours later it was the turn of the colors of the Argentina national team.

“Giant”: the photo that the World Cup twitter account dedicated to Messi

Messi’s record highlighted by FIFA

Lionel Messi became the first player to record an assist in five different World Cups when he set up Enzo Fernández for the goal that sealed a 2-0 victory over Mexico. Previously, the ‘Pulce’ assisted Hernán Crespo in 2006, Carlos Tévez in 2010, Ángel Di María in 2014; and Gabriel Mercado and Di María in 2018.

No other player has recorded an assist in more than three World Cups. Grzegorz Lato, Diego Maradona and David Beckham are the only other players to have provided assists in three editions.

Giant screens to see the national team in different cities of the country

The giant screens will be installed in several neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, Ushuaia, Bariloche, Salta, Mendoza, the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), the capital Santa Fe and Rosario,

In Mar del Plata, since the beginning of the World Cup, the Fan Fest has been staged with a giant screen in the Las Toscas beach area, next to the traditional Torreón del Monje. Meanwhile, in the city of Tandil, a giant screen will also be installed on the island of Lago del Fuerte.

In CABA, 3 screens of 45 square meters each will be installed in Piazza Seeber in the Palermo district, in the Parco del Centenario in the Caballito district and in the Municipal Park in the Villa Soldati district so that residents can follow the meeting.

Qataris go crazy with Argentinian fans: “I’ve never seen anything like it”

Argentinian fans make themselves felt strongly in the stadiums and also on the streets. Massive last banner in Doha in support of the team ahead of the match against Australia.

The Qataris, unaware of so much passion, fail to understand the emotion and resistance of the Argentine fans and a tour of clarion in the middle of the party that proves it.

“It’s very different, very special. They sang and danced for an hour”; “It’s very gratifying, even if you don’t understand what they’re saying, because you feel it in your heart. There’s no fan like Argentina”; “I’ve never seen anything like it”, are some of the phrases of the Qataris who attended the flag-raising.

The day Maradona gave Australia an anecdote that the current DT has dusted off to motivate the team

Once the match between Argentina and Australia was confirmed, the Argentines immediately remembered the playoffs of the 1993 World Cup, a tense draw because for the Argentines it implied the possibility of being excluded from a World Cup, something that had passed only in 1970.

Finally, with the return to the national team of Diego Armando Maradona, the albiceleste managed to qualify for the United States 1994 in a tight manner (1-1 away and 1-0 at home).

A distressing story but with a happy ending for Argentina, even if the distant memory is still good for Australia too, beyond the defeat. This is due to an anecdote related to that crossing, and the protagonist was Diego.

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In the round of 16, Argentina will once again wear the starting shirt

As reported by FIFA, Argentina will wear their traditional shirt, with black trousers and socks, while Emiliano Martínez will wear red.

The Australians will play in their home shirt, green shorts and white socks. The goalkeeper will come out purple.

The secrets of Australia: a team that challenges Argentina focusing on the epic and the counterattack

The rival of the national team in the round of 16 does not have large numbers but has eliminated Denmark. It took him a long time to get to the World Cup and he wants to give it another blow.

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Tomorrow Messi will play the thousandth match of his professional career

Lionel Messi will play tomorrow for the Argentina national team against Australia in the 1,000th match of his professional career.

The captain of the Argentina national team will reach this extraordinary number of matches with the aim of qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Qatar 2022 World Cup.

From Barcelona-Espanyol-0 on 16 October 2004 to Argentina-Poland-0 last Wednesday, the winner of seven Ballon d’Ors has played 999 matches.

Maradona and Messi, the Argentine stars of a World Cup show in Doha

The football, fine arts and collecting exhibition, which goes from the first World Cup in Uruguay in 1930 to the current one in Qatar, is one of the great attractions for lovers of the relics of this sport and has a central role Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi and other Argentine stars.

The two top “albicelesti” ambassadors are present at the Katara Foundation Cultural Center, the exhibition which will remain open until December 19 and which has already amassed thousands of visitors since the start of the tournament.

The other bar of the national team in Qatar: the ritual of Bati, Crespo, Pupi and company, an encouragement present in every match

The national team has fans in Qatar 2022. It is known that the Argentines have conquered Arab soil and they are felt in every flag and in every game in which Lionel Messi and company play. But there is another fan base beyond drums, flags and snare drums. A very particular one, with fewer members, but with the strength of an immense history on the playing field and with a national guise.

This is the group of younger former players who work here for various international channels, but when they see Scaloneta play they forget everything and gather in the box to shout and sing like any fan.

Graham Arnold, the coach of Australia, has all the confidence to play against Argentina and does not forget about Maradona

In 1988, Graham Arnold played in the only game in history where the Socceroos beat the national team. In the conference he recalls Ten and analyzes Scaloni’s team. Read more.