World champion Ángel Di María announced that he will leave the Argentine national team after playing in the 2024 Copa America in the United States. The competition will be held between June 20th and July 14th.
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“With all the pain in my soul and feeling a lump in my throat, I will say goodbye to the most beautiful thing that has happened to me in my career,” said ‘El Fideo’ Di María, 35, in a message published on his Instagram account.
“It will be the last time I wear the Argentine shirt,” said the Benfica striker and former Real Madrid, Manchester United and Juventus player.
Di María will also not play again for Argentina in the Qualifiers, whose matches resume in September 2024.
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As a result, their last match in the qualifying tournament for the 2026 World Cup was Albiceleste’s 1-0 victory over Brazil, at Maracanã, in Rio de Janeiro, last Tuesday.
“The last match of the Qualifiers has arrived for me. I can’t express in words how much people’s applause fills my soul these days,” he wrote.
It is worth remembering that although they never played together at a club, Di María became an inseparable partner of star Lionel Messi in the Argentine national team, as both were Olympic champions in Beijing 2008, and then America in 2021 in Brazil and world champions in the World Cup. of Qatar 2022.