But they don’t say anything about the Pan American Games
Pampa Fanatic.- The National Team Argentina He wants to retire the number “10” so that no player uses it again after Lionel Messi, and boy do they have their priorities in order.
“When Messi retires from the national team, we will not allow anyone else to wear the number 10 after him. This number 10 will be retired for life in his honor. It is the least we can do for him,” said Claudio Tapia, president of the AFA for Diario Sport, omitting to talk about the frequency with which they are given penalties or the inflation in his country.
Messi will be the last player to wear No. 10 for Argentina. ???????????? pic.twitter.com/OY2quOoh6S
— theScore (@theScore) December 31, 2023
Although this type of “tribute” is very common to happen in other sports such as baseball or the basket, in soccer (the only “soccer”, the other thing they call “American football” should be called “theater with hands”) is not used, and rather seems like a gaucho madness to squeeze out the twenty-one “triumph” that they can boast, after finishing in 7th place (below Colombia and Cuba) in the last Pan American Games. Mexico came in third, by the way.
Argentina has to believe that football is like beige
Literally the medal table of the Pan American Games that ended about 72 hours ago hahahahaha: pic.twitter.com/FEbkypE3Fy
— Memo Japan (@memo_jarque) November 11, 2023
It is worth mentioning that the AFA tried to do the same thing a few years ago when paying tribute to Diego Armando Maradona (who must be 3 times bigger than Messi and who also refused to let them do it), and FIFA itself did not allow them to do it. allowed, so we see no reason why this time they did accept. Likewise, Brazil tried to do the same with the “10” in honor of Pelé, and it didn’t proceed either, and Pelé is in a different category than Frionel.
???????????????? According to the English magazine @FourFourTwothe shirt of the Argentine National Team in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico was chosen as the SEVENTH BEST in the HISTORY of Soccer. pic.twitter.com/AeJkfDoRqr
— DAT ⭐⭐⭐ (@DeportesAlTacok) December 27, 2023
And just to make it clear that no number can be retired in football, we reproduce a part of the FIFA regulations:
“The numbers between 1 and 26 can be used. Number 1 must be worn by a goalkeeper, but the other 25 are freely assignable to the national teams.” Ready, so that in case they decide to score a penalty, sorry, Infantino decides to modify the rule at his discretion.
Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, with the Argentina shirt.
Now the World Cup in Qatar that they “gifted” to Messi fits. ???? pic.twitter.com/eL4jHJZcRS
— Lavozgalactica (@Lavozgalactica) August 5, 2023
To close the note, let’s remember the time when the Miami Heat retired Michael Jordan’s “23” jersey even though “His Majesty” never played there, in what must be the largest and most significant tribute in sports history:
20 years ago today: The Heat retire Michael Jordan’s #23 jersey, then Jordan (age 40) scores 23 PTS (11-18 FG) in the first half of the Washington Wizards’ 91-87 win in Miami.
April 11, 2003. pic.twitter.com/kLWOYH0eeg
— NBA Cobwebs (@NBACobwebs) April 11, 2023
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