Argentina's Next Generation Takes Over Without Lionel Messi

Argentina begins live without Lionel Messi. And these are the players taking over. It was a new call-up. Messi no longer in the team. A whole new history. And we have an era. Yeah, the end of an era. Let's see. Scaloni, 28 players for the November friendlies. The selection is a combination of, you know, European stars, some local players, and the big surprise, Emiliano Martínez, El Divo Martínez, the goalkeeper that loved and hated by many, comes back after a successful jaw surgery. Wow, okay. Yeah, crazy time. Let's take a look at this. I'm looking right here. Goalkeeping, oh, here he is. Emerging midfield, this is what I want to talk about. Alexis Mac Allister, obviously, is going to be the new captain and experienced voice in the midfield. The player from Liverpool is one of the best. Enzo Fernandez and Julian Alvarez are the younger players. Is Enzo the guy with the tattoos on his neck? No, that's... Enzo Fernandez is the one with the tattoos. Julian Alvarez is a little more clean cut with Atletico de Madrid. Not doing really well lately on Champions League. They lost, but, you know... Franco Mastantuono, a player that is owned by Real Madrid, but he's on loan. Gianluca Prestiani, great player. And Thiago Almada. Those are the... The young generation that one of them is trying to emulate and fill in the shoes of Messi. For me, the only one right there that is kind of ready is Julian Alvarez. Okay, do they have any size on the team? Because one of the issues they had in the championship game and the World Cup final is that they couldn't penetrate the size defense of Spain, yeah. But no, wait, Spain wasn't... No, maybe it was... Spain was big. Spain was big up front, yeah. Not in the front, but in the back. Okay. Yes. Exactly. Okay, so does Argentina have any size to combat that, to have somebody go and get ahead? One of the issues with the new generation of Argentinian players is that these are players small in stature, but very shifty, very fast, very... Like Messi. Just like Messi. This is the type of Argentinian player that we've seen, and it works for them, right? It works for them because also they play really fast with each other. They are fast. And they are really fighting. There are feisty players that will fight the ball to the very, very last minute, and that's one of the things that makes Argentina so dangerous. Talking about the World Cup, congratulations to Bosinha, the goalkeeper from Cabo Verde that became viral. He just became champion of Chile with Colo-Colo to the disgrace of El Brujo Crespo, because Colo-Colo is not of his liking. But that is the breaking news of this weekend. Bosinha, champion with Colo-Colo in Chile.