Anwar Ibrahim (Cairo)
After Argentina’s 3-0 victory over Italy in the International Cup “Lafinalisima”, during which the European Nations Cup champion “Italy” will face the Copa America champion “Argentina”, star Lionel Messi, captain of the “Tango” team, said that the national team His country has nothing to prove to European countries, and that it has the tools to compete with any team, whatever its name.
Messi led his country to a well-deserved victory over the “The Azzurri” team and starred in the match by creating two goals. He told TYC Sports: “Argentina does not need to face a big European team like Italy to show its true level, indicating that his country is well aware of the is being? It is not important to talk about the best between European football and South American football.
He added, “We play all our matches in the same way and facing Italy was a good test for us because the Azzurri are a great team.”
Messi was responding to what his French colleague Kylian Mbappe, who recently renewed his contract with Paris Saint-Germain, said in an interview with “TNT Sports” that European football is more diverse than its South American counterpart.
Mbappe said: The advantage that the Europeans have is that they play among themselves a lot of matches at the highest level, and all the time, as is the case this month when the European teams compete in the Nations League, and for this we find the Europeans when they reach the World Cup finals, they are more ready , while Brazil and Argentina are not at this level. Mbappe explained that the football in South America did not progress as well as in Europe, and he demonstrated this by saying: All the recent World Cups have been won by European teams.
Away from this controversy, Messi was keen to praise what his country has achieved this year, which he started by winning the Copa America, before adding another tournament by defeating Italy in the International Cup “Lafinalisima”.
He said: We will continue to fight and develop ourselves in order to compete strongly for the upcoming World Cup, and commented: We are not the best candidates, but we will compete strongly against any team, whatever it is.