The Copa América continues to find in the Argentine National Team several values that stood out in Racing. Lautaro Martínez, Rodrigo de Paul and Marcos Acuña are the three world champions who grew up or passed through Avellaneda and are now also in the United States. In what will be Lionel Messi’s last Copa América with the Argentine National Team, the best soccer player in the world revealed the great help that these players revealed.
Messi, in the Copa América, remembered the help of a former Racing player in the Argentine National Team
“It was very difficult for me to return to the National Team. They were all new kids and I didn’t know any of them personally. It is very difficult for me to enter groups. And Rodrigo helped me a lot because of his way of being. When I met him he reminded me a lot of Pocho Lavezzi. He approached me, we were talking, he made me get into the group much faster. He helped me a lot,” Messi said about De Paul in an interview with Juan Pablo Varsky in the middle of the Copa América in which he is playing with the Argentine National Team.
The former Racing midfielder, along with Di María and Otamendi, is one of the great sides that Messi has in this cycle and particularly in this new Copa América of the Argentine National Team. “We will do something and we will give him something. He is the captain, he has already celebrated several birthdays with us. The idea is that he enjoys it because he will be away from his wife, his children, his family and we will try to make sure that despite “That will be a great moment for him,” Rodrigo warned regarding a new birthday that he will celebrate on the 10th. And he highlighted the importance of both Messi and Di María: “We enjoy it, as always… Drinking mate in the morning, training… When we start practicing we are very eager, with the humility to continue incorporating things. What What the two of them teach us over the years is that they want to continue learning, that they like to compete. And we are always behind them.
