Tag: Lionel Scaloni

• Monday, July 13th 2026 - 15:45 UTC

  Scaloni plays down England semifinal: 'It's a football match, nothing more'

  

  Argentina's head coach, Lionel Scaloni, rejected attributing any meaning beyond sport to the World Cup semifinal against England, to be played on Wednesday, and urged that the match be treated as just another game of football.

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• Monday, July 13th 2026 - 13:48 UTC

  Argentina/England is a “football match, and that’s it, let’s not look for something else”

  

  Despite some incidental issues, and ahead of the upcoming World Cup semifinal between England and Argentina this Wednesday, the Argentine coach downplayed all possible ‘Atlanta climate outbursts’ that could emerge referred to the Falklands/Malvinas dispute, (but that was not explicitly mentioned), by simply arguing that the clash “is a football match, and that is what it is…”

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• Tuesday, February 28th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  Messi, Dibu, Scaloni, and Argentine fans steal FIFA “The Best” show

  

  Argentina's captain Lionel Messi Monday was awarded the 2022 “The Best” award by FIFA for the second time in his career; his teammate Emiliano Dibu Martínez was picked as the best goalkeeper, coach Lionel Scaloni was the best trainer and, if that was not good enough, Argentina's fans were also deemed the best on the planet.