Argentina will retire the enduring No.10 jersey worn by Lionel Messi after he hangs up his boots, in keeping with reviews.
“When Messi retires from the nationwide workforce, we is not going to enable anybody else to put on the quantity 10 after him. This quantity ’10’ will likely be retired for all times in his honour. It’s the least we are able to do for him,” Argentina Soccer Federation president Claudio ‘Chiqui’ Tapia instructed an Argentine newspaper as quoted by Marca.
By the way, this isn’t the primary time that the Argentine physique has tried to retire the enduring No.10 jersey which was additionally worn by the legendary Diego Maradona.
Earlier than World Cup 2002, Julio Grondona, who was the president of the AFA at the moment together with some and a few officers wished to retire the jersey, however that didn’t find yourself occurring attributable to a FIFA rule, which acknowledged that groups ought to use numbers from 1 to 23 within the match.
Ariel Ortega in the end wore the enduring jersey within the Marcelo Bielsa-coached workforce within the Korea Japan World Cup.
In the meantime, Messi has 106 objectives in 180 matches for Argentina and his trophy cupboard contains the 2021 Copa America and the 2022 World Cup.
With Messi’s future up within the air by the point the World Cup rolls on in 2026, he’ll be hoping to seize a second Copa crown with Argentina in 2024.
Just a few weeks in the past, six of the enduring jerseys worn by Messi in the course of the 2022 World Cup had been offered for $7.8 million at an public sale.
The gathering included the famed No.10 jersey worn by Messi in the course of the World Cup closing the place Argentina defeated France on penalties to win the title for the third time.
Within the 2022 World Cup, Messi scored seven objectives and made three assists to win the Golden Ball award, the one participant to win it twice.