Argentina Beats Bolivia 4-0 in Its First Match Since Lionel Messi’s International Retirement – WTOP News
Scaloni said Messi deserved a proper send-off and that Argentina will leave the No. 10 unassigned until his farewell match.
- The Argentine Football Association set a 1 p.m. local arrival deadline for Saturday, Oct. 3, as the friendly match between Argentina and Burkina Faso at the Estadio Monumental faced uncertainty with the visitors stuck in Morocco.
- A charter flight cancellation on Sept. 30 left the Burkina Faso delegation stranded in Morocco, with players boycotting training sessions and refusing multiple connection travel options to reach Buenos Aires.
- Several first-team players did not travel, with youth replacements taking their places, while the AFA sought to avoid cancellation and retain match fees for the friendly.
- Diario reported the team en route early Saturday, though the association weighed contingency plans including postponement or substituting an Argentine club to salvage the event.
- Argentina's international schedule continues Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, with Lionel Messi's farewell match against Benin, intensifying pressure to resolve the current logistical crisis quickly.
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The score of shame. Argentina did not pity a Burkina Faso in a friendly match played in Buenos Aires, where the African team had landed just five hours earlier after an 11-hour flight from their country. To top it off, Lionel Scaloni's team faced their sub-23 team, to which ... Continue reading "Argentina goes to a newly arrived Burkina Faso of an 11-hour flight and with the sub-23 team"
BUENOS AIRES Nogometaši Argentine, aktualni svjetski doprvaci, svladali su sčak 7-0 Burkinu Faso u Buenos Airesu, u prijateljskom ogledu. Argentinci su uvjerljivu pobjedu protiv 62. reprezentacije sa svjetske ljestvice FIFA-e ostvarili nekoliko dana prije službenog odlaska iz […] Objava Vatreni nisu jedini primili sedam golova. Argentina je zabila sedmicu – Burkini Faso pojavila se prvi puta na Novi list.
Burkina Faso's national selection lived a busy week before facing Argentina in Buenos Aires in a friendly match, on the night of Saturday to Sunday. In question: several flights cancelled at the last minute that delayed their departure and organizational conditions that questioned the holding of the meeting by causing tensions within the Group of the Stallions.
The friendly match between Argentina and Burkina Faso is going completely wrong. The African country's first team is refusing to board the plane—with the exception of one player. Therefore, the African country is supplementing the team with Under-23 players, according to Argentine media reports.
Lionel Scaloni took advantage of the first of the three friendly after the 2026 World Cup to start testing pieces
Messi Has Arrived: The Final Countdown to Argentina’s Goodbye Begins
Lionel Messi touched down in Rosario on Friday morning, and with that quiet landing the final chapter of one of soccer’s greatest stories officially began. The Inter Miami star arrived from Fort Lauderdale on a private jet with his wife, Antonela Roccuzzo, their three sons and his mother, Celia Cuccittini, before heading to the family […]
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