Riquelme said Argentines should be grateful for everything Messi has given to the national team and football.

Messi vacated the famous number 10 shirt on Monday, after 21 years of carrying Argentinian hopes on his shoulders.

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Messi first wore Argentina’s No. 10 on March 28, 2009, during Diego Maradona’s time as national-team coach. He wore the shirt for the first time in a 4-0 victory over Venezuela, and it soon became inseparable from his identity. Whenever Messi was available, the No. 10 belonged to him.

"This is the moment we get to look back on and realise how grateful we were to witness the greatness of a young kid with a dream," Beckham wrote on Instagram on Tuesday.

Yamal, who was 19 years and 49 days old when he reached the landmark, became the youngest player in Barcelona history to score 50 goals for the senior side, surpassing the previous club milestone held by Josep Escola, who reached 50 goals in 1935 at the age of 20 years and 356 days.

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After two decades with the Argentine national team, the captain announced his farewell in a message that felt less like a formal retirement statement and more like a personal letter to the country he had represented since he was a teenager.

Since the World Cup, UEFA threatened to boycott FIFA tournaments until Infantino scrapped the FIFA Forward Enterprises plan to bring in private investment.

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Bringing Brazil to Bangladesh for a football friendly is not a priority while the country is struggling with electricity and other essential sectors, State Minister for Youth and Sports Aminul Haque said on Tuesday, while acknowledging that such a match would be a major occasion for the country's football fans.

Bangladesh forwards Al Amin and Mirajul Islam have been handed 15-match and two-match suspensions respectively by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee over incidents during the Maldives-Bangladesh match in the Diamond Jubilee International Football Tournament on June 7.

South American soccer's governing body CONMEBOL has postponed two continental club matches after a powerful earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday.

For now, it is only a possibility. But it is one that has been impossible for football fans to ignore.

State Minister for Youth and Sports Aminul Haque has ordered the cancellation of allocations for auto-rickshaw shops inside the Bir Shreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur and temporarily suspended the stadium administrator for alleged negligence of duty.

After scoring against Monterrey in the Leagues Cup on Saturday, the Argentine midfielder removed his shirt to reveal Messi’s iconic No. 10 jersey underneath, dedicating his goal to his close friend and captain.

As Ancelotti's Selecao revamp gets under way, FIFA has picked out 10 players aged 25 or under who missed out on Brazil's World Cup squad but have already been capped at senior level and could play a major role in the next cycle.

Speaking to TyC Sports, Tapia said he hopes Scaloni will extend his contract, stressing that the 48-year-old coach is his "plan A, B and C" for the Argentina job.

"Today Barcelona is closer to being able to consider this transfer than yesterday. We have now secured the player's agreement to open negotiations with Manchester City," the source said, confirming Spanish press reports.