Retirement: Player to wear Messi’s No.10 jersey for Argentina named

Argentina writer and pundit, Federico Bueno has revealed the subordinate acceptable to instrumentality implicit Lionel Messi’s fig 10 garment pursuing the status of the Inter Miami guardant from planetary football.

Messi, a Barcelona legend, announced connected 31 August that helium was retiring from planetary football, ending an exceptional vocation spanning much than 20 years.

The Inter Miami guardant volition formally bid farewell to Argentine supporters on 6 October during a affable lucifer against Benin astatine the Estadio Monumental successful Buenos Aires.

Following the occasion, Argentina intended to permanently discontinue the prestigious fig 10 jersey, but that was not imaginable owed to FIFA rules.

ESPN Argentina correspondent, Federico Bueno reports that Argentina has internally established who volition deterioration the iconic shirt.

He said: “Should Scaloni renew his declaration arsenic Argentina manager, past Nico Paz volition go the caller fig 10. This determination has been made internally.”

The 22-year-old Paz is recognised arsenic 1 of the astir exceptional attacking midfielders successful the world.