Another famous goodbye appears in Argentina: “It’s going to be difficult for it to continue”

Leandro Paredes This Tuesday he questioned his continuity in the Albiceleste and, after the resignation this Monday of Lionel Messi to the selected team, he explained: “That he is not there is going to make it difficult for everything to continue working the same.”

“It’s going to be difficult for me to continue,” he responded. Walls after being consulted on the premises of Boca Juniors about his future in the national team.

The 32-year-old midfielder explained that the doubts about his future are due both to the replacement that the Albiceleste will face in the coming months and to the suspension for 10 games that he will have to face after the attack on the Spaniard. Gavi once the victory of the ‘Roja’ in the 2026 World Cup final has been consummated.

“The bar is very high and to continue competing in that way and continue achieving important things is going to be difficult. I think that in these years, in this process, we have managed to form a group of incredible players and people, and in that group we had our leader, who was Leo, and he will no longer be there,” he added. Walls.

In addition, he specified that he has not yet spoken with the Albiceleste coach, Lionel Scalonibut he anticipated that he plans to speak with him soon to address the issue of his continuity: “I will talk to the coach, we will see what decision he makes but it is going to be difficult.”

Walls He debuted in the Argentine national team in mid-2017 and, although he was not included in the roster for Russia 2018, after the arrival of Scaloni and his great performance in the 2019 Copa América became a key piece of the Albiceleste midfield.

The current captain Xeneize was important in the consecration in the 2021 Copa América and then in the coronation in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Two years later he played a fundamental role in obtaining the two-time continental championship in 2024 and this year he was also key in the ‘Scaloneta’ feat in the World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada, which ended in runners-up.

In the nine years he has been in the national team, Walls He has played a total of 84 games, in which he has recorded five goals and seven assists so far.