It’s almost time for the argentine national team make your long-awaited debut in the Copa America 2024. The team led by coach Lionel Scaloni will face this Thursday, June 20, against Canada at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium facilities, located in the city of Atlanta in Georgia, United States.
The current world champion and current winner of the last continental competition, will seek to defend the title and will do so against the Canadians, who intend to strike and be the surprise in the tournament with the help of their greatest figure: Alphonso Davies.
Although the ‘albiceleste’ She is a favorite, and not only because of her current rival, but also in the face of the two-time championship, she doesn’t trust absolutely anyone. The ‘gauchos’ They have to be 100% focused on their objective to avoid difficulties. This is what his captain made known Lionel Messi.
“I always said and say that Argentina is favorite. Today, we can say that we are the best, we are the last world champions, but that does not mean that we are going to win this Copa América walking. What’s more, I think it’s going to be a very close Copa América, it’s going to be more difficult,” said the ‘Flea’ one day before its premiere.
As part of its preparation, Argentina has had the opportunity to face a series of practice matches. Last Sunday, June 9, they managed to win by the minimum against Ecuador and on Friday the 14th they beat El Salvador 4-1.
For its part, Canada, which belongs to Concacaf, also played a series of quite interesting friendlies. In the first, they were defeated 4-0 by the Netherlands and then were able to rescue a draw with Kylian Mbappé’s France.
The last time both teams met was on May 24, 2010 in an international friendly, which resulted in a resounding 5-0 scoreline. On that occasion, those in charge of scoring were Ángel Di María, Maxi Rodríguez, Carlos Tévez and a double from Sergio Agüero.
In Peruvian territory, DirecTV was the company that acquired the television rights to all the matches of Copa America 2024. This is why the duel between Argentina and Canada will be broadcast through the streaming platform DGO. The Peruvian channel is added to this medium America TVwhich will also feature the images of the aforementioned match.
In the country ‘gaucho’ It can be seen through the following channels: Public TV, Telefe and TyC Sports. It should be noted that you can find all the details of the exciting match on the website of Infobae.
The duel between both squads is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. Peru hours, Colombia and Ecuador. While, in countries such as Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Paraguay, the United States (Miami) and Venezuela it will start an hour later. Finally, in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay the match will take place from 9:00 p.m.
Argentina: Emiliano Martínez; Nahuel Molina, Nicolás Otamendi, Cristian Romero, Nicolás Tagliafico; Rodrigo De Paul, Leandro Fernández, Alexis Mac Allister; Lionel Messi, Julián Álvarez and Ángel Di María. DT: Lionel Scaloni.
Canada: Maxime Crepeau; Alistair Johnston, Moïse Bombito, Kamal Miller, Alphonso Davies; Tajon Buchanan, Ismaël Koné, Stephen Eustáquio; Liam Millar, Jonathan David and Cyle Larin. DT: Jesse Marsch.
