Lionel Messi arrived in Buenos Aires on Monday to take part in the Albiceleste rally. The first since the world coronation of Argentines.
It is on the night of Thursday to Friday, at the monumental stadium, that the world champions will face the Panama in a friendly match – four days before another opposition without stake against Curaçao. The opportunity for the Messi and others to extend their new status in front of their audience.
This Monday, the Pulga landed in Buenos Aires from Paris, welcomed like a head of state by the boss of the Argentine Football Federation (AFA), Claudio Tapia, who sent him a little message in addition to social networks: “ You have never abandoned. And today you are back in your country as a world champion. Welcome, Leo! “”
The 63,000 tickets of the match against Panama sold in a few minutes – the meeting to be the pretext for monumental celebrations according to the Argentine press. In the meantime, since his arrival on Argentinian soil with woman and children, the slightest gesture of Lionel Messi is followed and decrypted. A skillfully orchestrated return by the rest by AFA, like this captain’s photo with his most loyal lieutenants in the locker room of the Albiceleste training camp in Ezeiza.