The Argentine National Team is preparing to face Chile, this Tuesday from 10:00 p.m., in New Jersey for the second date of Group A. However, there was an event that stole almost all the flashes on the eve of the match and it is about nothing less than Lionel Messi’s birthday.
Yes, once again Lionel Messi celebrates his birthday in the Argentine National Team camp. There are already 13 in the last twenty years. A ritual that is repeated: Leo blows out the candles surrounded by his teammates, although since he won the title in Qatra he no longer has any dreams left to fulfill.
In addition to Messi, the one who also had a birthday this June 24 is Diego Albornoz, the chef who has been accompanying the Senior Men’s National Team for 25 years. “Once he told me, because it is necessary to keep those accounts, that he had spent more birthdays with me than with his family,” the chef confessed in an interview after Qatar 2022.
“You always say, what am I going to give him if he has everything. And the truth is that I didn’t give him anything,” Scaloni confessed at the conference. “I suppose the leaders will have taken care of it,” the coach continued.
However, Messi received the gift from a group of Argentine pastry chefs who break it in New York. Hence the cake that he posted next to his sides: De Paul, Molina Paredes, Di María, Cuti Romero, Lo Celso and Otamendi. Leo, shares the center of the photo with Albornoz, the other honoree.
“Thank you very much for all the greetings and congratulations!! 😃 Another year that coincides with my birthday being with the National Team… So just celebrating a little and we continue preparing for our next game. Hugs!” Leo wrote on his Instagram account .
Surrounded by cakes and savory dishes, along with part of the squad, the Argentine star thanked him for the greetings he received from the people and with his mind set on tomorrow’s match against the Chilean national team in New Jersey.
After the birthday celebrations and the press conference, the players met at the training field to face the last practice where Scaloni will decide the final team.
After the post on Instagram, Leo showed up at training with the rest of his teammates where Scaloni began to outline the team. When they returned to the hotel and while a flag-off was taking place in Time Square, hundreds of fans were also waiting for Scaloneta at the hotel.
Around nine o’clock at night in Argentina (8 o’clock in New York), word began to spread that Leo would come out to say hello through the window. And at 9:30 p.m. (in the United States) he fulfilled the fans’ wish and looked out the window.
Leo was slow to leave because he was in his room on a video call with his family who couldn’t visit him in New Jersey. Afterwards, yes, he did not hesitate to come out to say hello, although somehow the one who convinced him to take the step was Cristóbal Soria, better known as Uncle Soria, the member of El Chiringuito who was inside the hotel at a meeting. with Messi.
But that was not all because, a few minutes later, Leo’s teammates approached the fences that divide the hotel from the street and offered birthday cake to the fans who came to the place.
