Lionel Messi was unable to participate in the current international break with the Argentine national team due to injury, and another player got his historic number 10 shirt.
Messi suffers from an ankle injury that he suffered in the 2024 Copa America final against Colombia, and because of it he has been absent from the stadiums since last July until now.
The Argentine national team played against Chile in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, and achieved a 3-0 victory, and another star appeared in Messi’s shirt.
Coach Lionel Scaloni chose Roma star Paulo Dybala to wear the number 10 shirt, which made the player express his pride in this great moment in his career.
Dybala said, “I did not expect to return to the Argentine national team again, but I returned. I stayed in Rome to be here.”
He continued, “For me, it is a great pride to wear the number 10 shirt, which has an amazing history, and we all know that the credit for that goes to Messi.”
It is noteworthy that Dybala scored a goal for Argentina in the last minutes against Chile, and the world champion became on the verge of securing participation in the 2026 World Cup in America, Canada and Mexico.
