The Argentine Football Association has officially announced the list of the U-23 Olympic team participating in the men’s football competitions at the Paris 2024 Olympics, after Javier Mascherano, coach of the Argentine Olympic team, announced the list of the team participating in the tournament that will start later this month.
The list announced by Mascherano late yesterday evening included 4 players who participated in the Tango team’s coronation in the last World Cup in Qatar in 2022, including striker Julian Alvarez and defender Nicolas Otamendi, but at the same time it did not include the name of Argentine star Lionel Messi.
Messi (37 years old), who has suffered several injuries this year, is currently participating with the first team in the South American Cup (Copa America) currently being held in the United States, as the team looks to defend its title that it won in the last edition of the competition in 2021, which was a starting point for winning the World Cup in Qatar.
Messi won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, his only appearance at the Games, and Mascherano, who won Olympic gold as a player in 2004 and 2008, will add goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli, Otamendi and Alvarez to his squad after their participation in the Copa America.
Also in the squad is midfielder Claudio Echeverri, who recently joined Manchester City from River Plate. The Argentine Olympic team will play two friendly matches in France before its opening match in the Olympics against Morocco on July 24, in Group B of the group stage, which also includes the teams of Iraq and Ukraine.
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