Draw of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games football tournament: when will it be held and who would be the rivals of the Argentine national team

The draw for the football tournaments of Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be next March 20 starting at 4pm (Argentine time) in the Pulse building in the French capital, as reported by FIFA this Friday in a statement. The women’s competition will be held 12 selectionswhile the men’s race will have 16 participants, including Argentina Under 23 teamdirected by Javier Mascherano.

The competition will take place from 24 July (two days before the opening ceremony) to 10 August in the stadiums of Paris, Nantes, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice, Saint-Etienne and Lyon.

For the first time, football at the Olympic Games will end with the women’s final, for which the national teams have already qualified. Brazil, Canada, Colombia, United States of America, New Zeland and the landlady France.

The names of six others remain to be known, two Europeans, who will emerge from the final phase of the League of Nations, with Spain, Holland and Germany as candidates; two from Africa (Camerou, Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia and Zambia aspire); and two from Asia (Australia, Japan, Korea and Uzbekistan aspire).

Canada will not be able to defend the gold obtained in Tokyo 2020, as in the case of the men’s tournament, in which Brazil failed to qualify for the first time since Athens 2004, falling behind Paraguay and Argentina, in the qualifying tournament held a few years ago ago, weeks in Venezuela.

Together with Albiceleste – two-time Olympic champion in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008) and Albirroja already have an Olympic ticket France, United States of America, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Evils, Morocco, New Zeland, Spain, Ukraine AND Israel. The three representatives from Asia remain to be known, plus the winner of a play-off between an African team and an Asian team.

Will Lionel Messi be at the Paris 2024 Olympics?

It will be an intense 2024 for Lionel Messi. In addition to his important goals with Inter Miami in his first full season, the star will look to continue his winning streak with the Argentine national team. It will also be in the United States, where the team coached by Lionel Scaloni will play in a new Copa América and will try to defend the title won in 2021 at the Maracaná against Brazil and which was, in retrospect, Scaloneta’s first success.

But the question is whether Leo will walk through the doors that Javier Mascherano opened for him to be one of the three seniors who will seek Olympic gold in Paris 2024. The DT made it clear that Leo has his place secured if he wants it. That tournament, however, which will be played between the end of July and the beginning of August It is not yet on Messi’s agenda..

As he found out Clarion, the decision is far from being made. Neither for yes nor for no. But the concrete thing is that it seems very far away. At the same time, totally conditioned by what could happen in the Copa América and also by the needs of Inter Miami.

The fact is that the Olympic football tournament, the one won by the young Messi in Beijing 2008, overlaps with the Leagues Cup and this overloaded calendar could conspire against Inter Miami’s plans. And also with the dosage of energy that the native of Rosario must bring in order not to expect the best from an organism that has been working for two decades.