The proposal that Alejandro Domínguez made to Messi at the Qatar award ceremony: will he convince him to play for the Libertadores?

After the announcement of conmebol on the increase in prizes for those clubs that will compete in the next editions of the cups Libertadores and South Americans -in the male and female version-, the president of the institution, Alejandro Dominguezrevealed his interest in adding to revive the 2030 World Cup in the region and what he whispered to Lionel Messi at the Qatar 2022 awards ceremony.

“When Argentina won the Copa América, I told Leo that he had achieved the first of the three goals he had in front of him. When he won the final, two out of three. And when he won the World Cup, it was three out of three, but I told him that now only Libertadores was missing“He explained.

“What I told (Lionel) Messi, I also told Fideo (Ángel Di María)”he revealed in an interview with ESPN Signal, when asked about the words he whispered in the world champion captain’s ear.

Domínguez is not the only one dreaming of this possibility, given that apparently the two players from Rosario, one trained at Newell’s and the other at Central, have left this possibility open, albeit without a precise date. Sara? Only they know it and to realize the dream of the top leader of South American football, Rosario’s teams must first qualify for one of the next editions of the Libertadores … and also sign the world champions.

Even the 2030 World Cup

The application of Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Chile the organization of the 2030 World Cup seems to have stopped for several months. However, Domínguez admitted he had spoken to AFA president Claudio Tapia on Monday to reconsider the bid before FIFA.

“The 2030 World Cup has two legs. One is the politics of each nation and the other is the sport and politics of the member federations (of Conmebol). I manage in the second sphere and Yesterday (Monday) we spoke to Chiqui that we want a joint meeting to say here we are, these are the places we propose“he underlined.

“It will be the World Cup one hundred years after it all began. We have the first champion, Uruguay, and the last, Argentina. FIFA knows it has a responsibility to deal with this.“, he brandished.

More money for Cups

Domínguez’s words came a day after Conmebol’s announcement 23% increase. regarding the awards that the clubs received in 2022. The budget for the competitions organized by the South American body will be 300 million dollars for this year and will be distributed among the participating clubs with men’s and women’s teams.

“The Executive Council has authorized an amount of 300 million dollars. When we started in 2016, the total that it has distributed (in competitions, not counting the women’s branch) was 70 million dollars,” Domínguez compared.

“The champion could accumulate almost 30 million dollars in Libertadores and almost 10 and a half million in South America”, Domínguez pointed out on the destination of the 300 million that the competition pays.

“At the level of club competitions, of confederations, in the world, now the Libertadores, by a narrow margin, It is the third highest paid league in the world. And accordingly, the South American is the fourth. We are moving forward, there is still a lot to do, football is the real protagonist and we are here to start the Conmebol era,” concluded the Paraguayan leader.