The Argentine National Team decided what it will do with the number 10 jersey after the retirement of Lionel Messi

The Argentine National Team will begin a new phase on the November FIFA Date, which will have a historic peculiarity: it will be the first international window without Lionel Messi, who said goodbye to the national team in October, during the match against Benin.

With the international retirement of the Argentine star, one of the main unknowns became the future of the number 10 jersey, a number that was also forever associated with the figure of Diego Maradona.

Why no player will use Messi's 10 in November

The coaching staff led by Lionel Scaloni made the decision not to assign number 10 to any player during the November friendlies or in the remaining commitments of

this year.

The intention is to preserve the number that Messi used during his historic career with Albiceleste. For now, the number will remain vacant until there is a regulatory obligation to assign it or a member of the staff expresses an interest in wearing

it.

In this way, none of the players called up will have the responsibility of immediately occupying the symbolic place left by El Rosario.

When will the number 10 jersey be used again The

decision of Scaloni and his team is to keep the number without an owner during the next friendly matches and postpone its reassignment until the

return of official competitions.

That scenario will come with the start of the South American Qualifiers for the 2030 World Cup, scheduled for next year. There it could be defined who will inherit the number that identified Messi and that Maradona also wore before

.

Meanwhile, Argentina will begin to build a new sports phase, with the challenge of renewing its structure without one of the most important players in its history.