These are Ángel Di María's last games with the Argentine National Team shirt
.
He already announced it, Fideo.
The
Copa América 2024
, in which he will defend the title he achieved in 2021, will be his last dance with the Albiceleste.
But because of his quality, he should continue to be on the playing field.
This Tuesday, in the absence of
Lionel Messi
due to a muscle injury, the man from Rosario took the opportunity to score
his first goal (great goal) from a free kick with the national team
.
GREAT GOAL FROM DI MARIA!
Fideo appeared with this wonderful free kick to equalize the match with Costa Rica🇨🇷 at the start of the match.
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It was the beginning of Argentina's comeback against Costa Rica, just six minutes into the second half.
The National Team had played poorly in the first half and that explained the impetus they showed at the start of the second half.
Di María had a lot to do with it, not just because of the goal.
The captain was in charge of executing a free kick from about 30 meters, placed on the right of the crescent, the favorite position of Messi, who followed him on television from Miami.
He took a few running steps and caressed the ball with the inside edge so that it executed a perfect parabola to the left corner of Keylor Navas, which until then was a wall.
His former teammate at Real Madrid could do nothing, because the shot had the exact strength and precision to avoid any attempted rebound.
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The impact was such that
even Alexis Mac Allister turned around and began to wave his right hand in a clear gesture of the impressiveness of Fideo's execution
.
GOAL FROM ARGENTINA!
Banega, from a free kick, scored 1-0 against Nigeria.
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It may sound strange (or actually not so strange), but it meant Di María's first free kick goal with the Argentine National Team shirt.
Of course, to find a goal from that situation in the Albiceleste team that is not from Lionel Andrés Messi, you have to go back to November 14, 2007, when
Ever Banega
scored against Nigeria in a friendly in Krasnodar, preparatory to the World Cup in Russia. 2018.