Argentina National Team Will Bring Lionel Messi to China, Continue to Indonesia?

Liputan6.com, Jakarta The Argentina national team will have a friendly match on the Asian continent. Apart from Indonesia, the 2022 World Cup winner will also visit the Bamboo Curtain country, China.

The trial schedule has been announced via the official Albiceleste Twitter account. In their upload, the Tango team wrote that the matches in China would take place on June 15 and in Indonesia, June 19, 2023.

According to a statement from the Argentine Embassy to China as reported by Reuters, Team Tango will bring Lionel Messi to China for the first time since 2017. While in the Bamboo Curtain country, the Albiceleste squad plans to meet the Australian national team at the Worker’s Stadium.

This is a repeat of the last 16 round of the 2022 World Cup. At that time, Argentina, who had suffered a defeat in the first match of the group stage, managed to win 2-1 over the Socceroos.

Newspaper BeijingDaily also said the same thing. As reported by Thebeijinger, Messi’s presence on Argentina’s June 16 visit will also be distributed by the Argentine Embassy via Weibo accompanied by a poster featuring five Team Tango players, including Lionel Messi.

Reuters added that this is not the first time Messi has visited China. The visit of the Argentina national team also marks the 35-year-old player’s seventh trip to the Bamboo Curtain country.