2024-09-05 03:01:00
This Thursday, September 5th from 9:00 p.m. Argentine national team will face his peer Chile for the date 7 of the Eliminatory rounds. In the run-up to the match, Angel Di Maria will be honored after his retirement.
The tribute to Di Maria at the Monumental
Tomorrow the Monumental Stadium Not only will it be the stage for the first match of the Argentine national team After obtaining the America’s Cup. In the run-up to the clash against Chile, an emotional event will take place: the farewell tribute to Angel Di Maria. Video I had already announced that after the America’s Cup would withdraw from the Selection.
The player was authorized to travel by the Benficahis club: he will arrive this Thursday and will leave for Portugal on Friday. According to the newspaper Oléthe AFA prepares a stage for the event. There, a plaque will be given to the footballer and a video will be played with what he left behind during his time in the SelectionDi María will also take the microphone to say goodbye to the public.
“The tribute to the Video It is well deserved. I had a chat with him and I think that the best thing for everyone is that he comes to retire with his people and feels identified with everything he has given us. And that it is a special day for him. It has been a movie ending, it couldn’t be better. The idea is that he has a night like he deserves,” he said. Lionel Scaloni upon arriving in the country for the double date of the Qualifiers.
Di Maria in the Argentine national team
The race Angel Di Maria is full of achievements and great successes. Emerging from Rosario Centralwent through Benfica, Real Madrid, Manchester United, PSG y Juventus. He won local leagues and cups and even the Champions League. But in the Argentine national team He made history and his name will forever be written in the most important pages.
Under-20 World Champion and Gold Medalist
The path of Video with the albiceleste began with the Sub-20: won the 2007 World Cup in the category, in which he played 5 matches and scored 3 goals and gave 2 assists. A year later He won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics: in 6 games he scored 2 goals, including the great goal in the final against Nigeriaand gave 3 assists.
Senior team
Di María’s debut for the senior team was on August 6, 2008 in a South American qualifying match for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. In that match, the Video played the first half. The rest is history: 145 matches, in which he scored 31 goals and gave 32 assists, he won 2 Copa América and a World Cup. Also the Finalissima. The only final of those tournaments in which he did not score a goal was the 2022 Copa América, but he was still the star of the match..
In 2014 he was injured in the quarter-finals of the World Cup – a very important loss for Alejandro Sabella’s team – and he was also an important part of the teams that finished runners-up in America in 2015 and 2016. Criticized mercilessly and unfairly for years, Di María had a more than happy ending in the Argentine national team, and will receive his well-deserved tribute.