Messi could participate in the Olympic football in Paris next summer as an adult.
Soccer star Lionel Messi wants to participate in next summer's Olympics, says the Argentinian directvsports.com.
In addition to Messi, according to the website, also the national team's other perennial star Angel Di Maria would be eager to participate in the Olympic tournament in Paris.
There is no certainty about the veracity of the information, but the enthusiasm for the Games is in any case a bit premature. Argentina doesn't even have a place in the tournament yet.
Olympic football is a tournament for under-23s, but the team can have three over-age players.
Serves as the head coach of the Argentine Olympic team Javier MascheranoMessi's former teammate from Barcelona.
“Players like Angel Di Maria and Lionel Messi have earned the opportunity to choose whether they want to play at the Olympics,” Mascherano commented, according to Directv Sports.
He himself thought of stepping into a smaller role once the Olympic spot was secured and handing the head coach to the man who piloted Argentina to the World Cup gold For Lionel Scaloni.
“I hope that Scaloni can lead the under-23 team in the Olympics. I consider it an option.”
In the Olympic tournament 16 countries play. Two countries from South America will make it to the Games. The South American qualifying tournament will be played from January 20 to 11. February in Venezuela. Argentina will face Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Peru in its initial group.
Messi, Di Maria and Mascherano were winning Olympic gold in Beijing in 2008. Di Maria scored the only goal of the final against Nigeria.
Messi and Di Maria were about to win the World Cup in 2022 in Qatar. Messi would be 37 years old at the time of the Olympics.
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