The renowned sports journalist, man of Working day, Sergio Levinsky will have the enormous responsibility of telling the readers of Jornada Online everything that has to do with the Argentine team and the competition that focuses the attention of the sports world. His extensive experience in international coverage guarantees top-level information.
THE WORK TEAM
Our envoy is joined by a team of professionals who will be in charge of the journalistic edition with the complement of opinion columns, approaches, minute by minute of the National Team’s matches, historical data and everything that implies added value to this global coverage. Fabian Galdi will be in charge of this team and Roberto Suarez He will add his experience and capacity through the texts that will enhance the value of this joint work. It is worth remembering that Levinsky, Suarez and Galdi were the envoys of Day Group during the 2022 World Cupthe one that brings such pleasant memories to us Argentines.
Let’s take this opportunity to review some color data about the National Team that, led by Lionel Scaloni, defends the title.
Those summoned
The last 10 debuts of Argentina in the history of the Copa América
Today it will be our National Team’s turn to play its first match in the 2024 edition of the Copa América. Next, we review the last ten initial matches in Argentina’s cup history:
Brazil 2021: Argentina 1 (Messi) – Chile 1 (Vargas)
Brazil 2019: Argentina 0 – Colombia 2 (Roger Martínez and Duván Zapata)
United States 2016: Argentina 2 (Ángel Di María and Ever Banega) – Chile 1 (José Pedro Fuenzalida)
Chile 2015: Argentina 2 (Sergio Agüero and Lionel Messi) – Paraguay 2 (Nelson Haedo Valdez and Lucas Barrios)
Argentina 2011: Argentina 1 (Sergio Agüero) – Bolivia (Edivaldo Rojas)
Venezuela 2007: Argentina 4 (Hernán Crespo -2-, Pablo Aimar and Carlos Tevez) – United States 1 (Eddie Johnson)
Peru 2004: Argentina 6 (Cristian González, Javier Saviola -3-, Andrés D’Alessandro and Luis González) – Ecuador 1 (Agustín Delgado)
Colombia 2001: Argentina did not participate
Paraguay 1999: Argentina 3 (Diego Simeone and Martín Palermo -2-) – Ecuador 1 (Iván Kaviedes)
Bolivia 1997: Argentina 0-0 Ecuador
Messi has the record for appearances
With 34 games played, the Argentine captain reached the mark that the Chilean Sergio Livingstone had held since 1953.
“Messi broke a new record” seems to be a common phrase in contemporary football. Since his debut, Leo broke different records that seemed unattainable for current players and is currently the footballer with the most games played in the history of the Copa América, after surpassing Chilean goalkeeper Sergio Livingstone (since 1953) in the last edition held in Brazil. .
The Argentine captain began the last edition sharing sixth place with the Colombians Carlos Valderrama and Leonel Álvarez, both with 27 appearances each. Upon reaching the final and having the opportunity to play all seven matches, he surpassed the Peruvian Máximo Mosquera (28), the Bolivian Víctor Ugarte (30) and the Brazilian Zizinho (33) along the way.
In total, Messi played six editions of the Copa América: Venezuela 2007 (six games played), Argentina 2011 (four), Chile 2015 (six), United States 2016 (five), Brazil 2019 (six) and Brazil 2021 (seven) .
The debut stadium
This stadium, located on the East Coast, will host two matches of the CONMEBOL Copa América United States 2024. On the one hand, the already mentioned clash between the Albiceleste and Canada, which will open the tournament on June 20 for the Group, and the other match will be on June 27, for Group C, in one of the two duels that will take place. between Concacaf teams in the group stage: the United States will play against Panama. With extensive history in Concacaf tournaments, they have not yet met in the Copa América.
The Mercedes-Benz Stadium has a capacity of 71,000 people. It was inaugurated in 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia, and today it is the home of the Atlanta United (MLS) and Atlanta Falcons (NFL) teams.
Argentina’s record against Canada records only one 5-0 win
The only history of confrontations between Argentina and Canada in the Senior National Team is recorded on May 24, 2010, with a 5-0 victory for our national representative at the Monumental stadium.
On that occasion, the Argentine national team beat Canada 5-0 in the last international friendly before traveling to play in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, in a match that served to say goodbye to the team and as a celebration of the Bicentennial.
The goals of the team led by Diego Maradona were scored by Maximiliano Rodríguez -2-, Angel Di María, at 15, 31 and 36 minutes of the first half, respectively, and Carlos Tevez and Sergio Agüero sealed the result, at 17′ and 36′ ‘ of the complement.
