Chiqui Tapia confirmed who the rivals will be and where Argentina will play its first games as world champions

Paris is a party. And that party looks tinged with blue and white. It’s that, beyond the awards gala The best which (perhaps/surely) will crown Lionel Messi as the best player of the season after getting the Qatar 2022 World Cup and which also has Lionel Scaloni and Emiliano Dibu Martínez as candidates for Best Coach and Best Goalkeeper, this was a night of more than important definitions.

It is that, in Paris, the last tango of the contract renewal of the world champion DT was played. Yes, from the French capital, the president of the AFA, Claudio Chiqui Tapia has confirmed the definitive agreement with Scaloni.

“When trust is high, communication is simple and effective. We continue to strengthen the national team project, together with Lionel Scaloni, the world champion coach,” posted the AFA president along with a photo with the man born in Pujato to conclude the novel .

Furthermore, Claudio Tapia confirmed that during the next FIFA appointment, the national team will have two appointments in our country where the world champions will be able to make their debut and celebrate the historic title obtained in Qatar with the fans.

The rivals of the national team will be none other than Bangladesh, a nation where, led by Lionel Messi, the Argentine team has generated a real revolution, and Curaçao, a small country of 444 square kilometers that was about to qualify for the last World Cup in the Concacaf Qualifiers. .

When he entered the green carpet of The Best Awards gala, Tapia referred to Scaloni’s renewal: “It is very important to give continuity to the process that led us to obtain the world championship. He leads it, the players have expressed it We were sure because Scaloni has his say”.

“We just needed to meet to close everything,” continued Chiqui, who then referred to the rivals Argentina will have at the end of March. On the 23rd the team will play against Panama and on the 28th against Curacao. The locals? “We will determine it in these days. I am very happy for the recognition that the best player in the world, our coach, will have”, continued Tapia, already engaged in today’s awards ceremony.

In principle, the match against the Panamanians would be played in the renovated Mas Monumental Stadium, which now has a capacity of 83,000 spectators, while it remains to be defined in which stadium the second match will be played. Córdoba’s Kempes and Santiago del Estero’s Madre de Ciudades are racing with serious chances.