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Juan Román Riquelme testimonial, Lionel Messi, 2006 Argentina team

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Juan Román Riquelme held his testimonial on Sunday with Lionel Messi and several players from Argentina’s 2006 World Cup team being invited.

Román Riquelme played his farewell match at Boca Juniors and it was his Boca team against Argentina. Present players such as Lionel Messi, Ángel Di María and Leandro Paredes were at the match while previous players and coaches such as Alfio “Coco” Basile, Carlos Bianchi José Pekerman were at La Bombonera in a 5-3 win for Boca Juniors.

World Cup winning coach Lionel Scaloni was also at the match as were the following players: Leandro Paredes, Ángel Di María, Juan Pablo Sorín, Esteban Cambiasso, Fernando Gago, Javier Saviola, Pablo Aimar, Diego Placente, Lucho González, Ezequiel Lavezzi for Argentina.

Carlos Fernando Navarro Montoya, Óscar Córdoba, Cata Díaz, Sebastián Battaglia, Nicolás Burdisso, Mauricio ‘Chicho’ Serna, Marcelo Delgado, Rodrigo Palacio, Blas Giunta, Walter Samuel, Hugo Ibarra and Jorge Bermúdez and more players were there for Boca Juniors.

Riquelme gave a speech and mentioned the following:

I don’t know who is better, Maradona (or Messi) but they are the two best players I have seen in my life and it’s great to have him here. I apologize to your family that you had vacations and stayed a couple more days, I’m very grateful that you always said yes to me and for all the bosteros I am lucky to have you here. I hope you had a great time. I love you very much.

Lionel Messi was one of the star invitees and he spoke about being at the testimonial. Here is what he had to say:

“It was very nice to be at his testimonial, with what he means to Argentine football, what he means to Boca, to once more be at La Bombonera.

“The truth is that it was a very special day to enjoy and that’s what we did.”

Italy coach Roberto Mancini interested in Marcos Senesi

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Italy coach Roberto Mancini is back interested in Marcos Senesi.

Roberto Mancini is reportedly looking to get Marcos Senesi to play with the Italian national team. According to Diario AS, Mancini is interested in Senesi as he looks to add new players to the team.

Mancini had previously included Senesi in a pre-call up in June 2022 but Senesi refused the call up as he was included in the Argentina national team for the Finalissima against Italy and a friendly against Estonia.

Marcos Senesi made his Argentina debut in the 5-0 win vs. Estonia last year and has only played one match with the Argentina national team. This comes after Mancini gave Argentine born Mateo Retegui his debut with the Italian team earlier this year.

Maxi Rodríguez testimonial: Lionel Messi, Gabriel Batistuta, Lionel Scaloni

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Maxi Rodríguez held his testimonial match on Saturday with many invitees.

Arguably the biggest icon at the club, it was the Newell’s Legends against the Argentina Legends and even though Argentina took an early lead, it was a 7-5 win for Newell’s.

Lionel Messi made his return to the club for the first time in 14 years and scored a hat trick. It took him just four minutes to score the first goal of the match.

Messi scored three for Argentina, Maxi himself scored one for Argentina and Martín Posse all scored. For Newell’s, Gabriel Batistuta scored a penalty, Maxi scored two, Ignacio Scocco scored two, Denis Rodríguez, who is Maxi’s cousin scored one and one of Maxi’s daughters scored.

Some funny and highlighted moments of the match include Lionel Scaloni with a slide tackle and Ever Banega fouling the referee with Maxi himself giving Banega the yellow card.

Lionel Messi back at Newell’s Old Boys, receives standing ovation

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Lionel Messi is back at the Newell’s Old Boys stadium and received a standing ovation.

Messi returned to Rosario and is part of the farewell match for Maxi Rodriguez at the Newell’s Old Boys stadium. This marked the first time that Messi was back in 14 years.

His status for the match was unknown as it takes place on his birthday, but as the players were in the locker room, it was announced that Messi was on his way to the stadium. Messi got out of the car holding his boots.

Kylian Mbappé, Neymar, David Beckham, football world wishes Lionel Messi happy birthday

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Kylian Mbappé, Neymar, David Beckham and many in the football world wished Lionel Messi a happy birthday on Saturday.

June 24 is a day that is remembered for many reasons in Argentina. Diego Maradona, Claudio Caniggia and Argentina eliminated Brazil from the 1990 World Cup on this date.

Maxi Rodriguez scored one of the greatest World Cup goals ever in Argentina’s win against Mexico at the 2006 World Cup. It’s the birthday of an Argentine genius, one who wore the number 10 shirt and before Lionel Messi. It’s Juan Roman Riquelme’s birthday.

And they are all worth celebrating. But June 24 is also Lionel Messi’s birthday. The birthday of the World Cup winner. The man who completed football. And many in football wished the Best player in the world a happy birthday.

On behalf of the entire Mundo Albiceleste family, we would like to wish World Cup champion Lionel Messi a very happy birthday.

Ángel Di María wished Lionel Messi a happy birthday on Instagram with the caption:

“Happy birthday friend. Have a beautiful day”.

The city of Rosario in Argentina which is Lionel Messi’s hometown also wished him a happy birthday. Messi replied, thanking them on Instagram.

Mbappé took to Instagram to wish Messi a happy birthday. He posted a picture of them both from the World Cup final. Here is what he posted:

“Happy birthday legend. Lionel Messi.
Wishing you the best day possible with your family and friends.
Thank you for these 2 years together in Paris, I learned a lot from you as a player, partner, opponent and man.
For that alone I am thankful.
Good luck on your new adventure.”

Another one of Messi’s former team mates wished him a happy birthday. Neymar posed a picture of them both at PSG with the caption “Feliz cumple amigo”.

David Beckham, part owner of Inter Miami, Messi’s next club, posted on Instagram writing “Happy birthday my friend, special year ahead”.

Manchester United’s Spanish Twitter page even tweeted out a picture of Lisandro Martinez and Lionel Messi writing:

“Licha and the birthday boy”.