Another legend of Argentine soccer will be for the expected duel between Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo [Video]

The Argentine coach Marcelo Gallardo, who has been without a team since he said goodbye to River Plate last November, will lead the possible last game in which the two best players of the last two decades will face each other: his compatriot Leo Messi and the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo .

In a video shared on social networks, the ‘Muñeco’ himself was in charge of announcing that he will be part of what could be a historic and nostalgic match for football lovers, and that it will mark his return to the fields, even for a day. (on January 19).

“Hello, I’m Marcelo Gallardo and I want to tell you that on January 19 I’m going to lead the Riyadh Season, which will be made up of players from Al Hilal and Al Nassr versus Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). See you there soon”, was Gallardo’s brief address.

The most successful coach in the history of River Plate, with 14 titles in eight and a half years in charge of the ‘millionaire’ bench, will lead a team made up of members of the two most important clubs in Saudi Arabia, one of which, Al Nassr , has just hired Cristiano Ronaldo after his departure from Manchester United.

Their rival will be nothing more and nothing less than Messi’s Paris Saint-Germain, who will play this duel just a month after being proclaimed world champion with the Argentina team.

The rivalry of Messi and Ronaldo, two of the dominators of world football in recent years, with seven and five Ballon d’Ors, respectively, was maximum during the nine seasons that coincided in the Spanish League, with the Argentine as leader of FC Barcelona (2004-2021) and the Portuguese from Real Madrid (2009-2018).

This will be Gallardo’s first experience on the bench after leaving the club of his loves at the end of 2022.

On November 13, he led his last match with the ‘millionaires’, which ended with a 4-0 win over Betis -by Chilean Manuel Pellegrini, another former River-, in Mendoza (western Argentina). Minutes before the start of the match, Gallardo was honored in the center of the field and received an ovation from the entire stadium.

Javier Pinola, then captain of the River Plate team, also retired in that game, and today he is assistant to the new coach, Martín Demichelis, on the ‘millionaire’ bench.

With the ‘Doll’ on the bench, River Plate won the 2014 Copa Sudamericana, the 2015, 2016 and 2019 Recopa Sudamericana, the 2015 and 2018 Copa Libertadores, the 2015 Suruga Bank Cup, the 2016, 2017 Copa Argentina and 2019, the 2017 and 2019 Argentine Super Cup, the 2021 Professional League and the 2021 Champions Trophy.

With information from EFE

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