The Argentine Olympic selector, Sergio Batista, confirmed the 18 players who will participate in the Games in Beijing. Thus, Argentina will be attended by Lionel Messi, Sergio Agüero and Fernando Gago to defend the gold medal in Athens 2004 obtained.



The biggest uncertainty of the call was resolved with the inclusion of the Inter defence, Nicolas Burdisso, as a third player older than 23 years, before the negative Bayern Munich's Martin Demichelis to give in to and Deportivo La Coruna for this square had been for Fabricio Coloccini.

Besides Burdisso, Juan Roman Riquelme and Javier Mascherano will be the other two Olympic completing the list of Sergio Batista. Others who surprised by its inclusion on campus were Argentine Olympic Lautaro Acosta, new recruitment of Seville, and Boca defender youth, Luciano Munoz.

List summoned:
Goalkeepers: Oscar USTARI (Getafe) and Sergio Romero (AZ Alkmaar).

Defenders: Pablo Zabaleta (Espanyol), Luciano Monzon (Boca Juniors), Ezequiel Garay (Real Madrid), Nicolas Burdisso (Inter Milan), Federico Fazio (Seville) and Lautaro Acosta (Seville).

Midfielders: Fernando Gago (Real Madrid), Juan Roman Riquelme (Boca Juniors), Ever Banegas (Valencia), Javier Mascherano (Liverpool) and Jose Sosa (Bayern Munich)

Strikers: Diego Buonanotte (River Plate), Sergio Agüero (athletics Madrid), Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona), Ezequiel Lavezzi (Naples) and Angel Di Maria (Benfica).

Substitutes: Nicolas Navarro (Naples), Lucas Biglia (Anderlecht), Nicholas Young (Anderlecht) and Emiliano Insúa (Liverpool).

Lionel Messi, author of two of the three goals scored by Barcelona in Glasgow before Celtic (2-3), has re-marked after 17 parties, and has become the top scorer interim Champions League, with six many in his personal account.

The Argentine tied the match in 18 minutes, breaking a streak of almost three months unchecked. His last goal was for the party to Olympique Lyon in the Champions League (2-2), November 27, 2007.

Messi again mark in the 79 minute goal from the victory, which also confirmed as the top scorer of the competition with six goals, ahead of Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Inter) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) , all of them with five goals

The star of AC Milan valued quality blaugrana to which believes that harmed the poor role of his team.

The bright Ballon d2007, milanista Kaka, broke into praise Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, the two players who have followed him in the vote to award delivery "France Football."

Ronaldo represents the speed and power Messi and the skill and control of the ball. They are young and full of talent, I appreciate

The difference is that Messi has not won any major title this season, nor the Spanish league or the Champions League and that I think that has been a negative point for him

Admirador of RAI and Ronaldo

a dream come true for child
the worlds most desired trophy at the individual level

The trio comprised the winning podium youngest in history because Kaka is 25 years, Cristiano Ronaldo 22 and Messi 20. Moreover, the Argentine is also, like the other two that had preceded it, from the nominees to the FIFA World Player.

The midfielder and striker "rossonero" is the fourth Brazilian wins award since it was opened to all players playing in the European league. It is the first player of this nationality that is imposed in votes and has not played in Barça, unlike Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho. Five of the last ten editions have been for Brazilian footballers.

Kaka, who collected the award accompanied by his wife, his parents and his brother Digao, was also "escorted" by the leadership of Milan. Adriano Galliani declared "non-transferable" to the star who led the team to win the Champions League final. In addition, the club Lombard matches with Juventus as teams with more awards, with eight. Real Madrid has six, and Barça and Bayern, five each. For leagues, the Calcium is the most first prize amount, seventeen, eleven of the Spanish league, ten in the Bundesliga and five in the Premier League.

While Messi is the first player in the League in the classification of 2007, the first Spanish is the Catalan Cesc Fàbregas, Arsenal, located on the eighth position. Ronaldinho took the tenth second place, while Thierry Henry is the nineteenth and Eto or, Thirty. Fernando Morientes (Liverpool), Villa (Valencia), Raul Gonzalez (R. Madrid) also nominated, did not receive any votes.