Lionel Messi se despedirá de la selección argentina con un partido en Buenos Aires: “El último tango del mejor jugador del mundo”

Lionel Messi will play his last match with the Argentina national team on October 6 in Buenos Aires. The match, described as "the last tango of the best player in the world" by Claudio Tapia, president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), will be a friendly against Benin at the Monumental Stadium.

Messi announced his international retirement earlier this month. The AFA confirmed that he has been invited to play in the farewell match. Argentina will play three home friendlies during the September 21-October 6 FIFA international window, with the match against Benin being one of them.

The other two friendlies will be against Bolivia on September 30 at Cordoba's Mario Kempes Stadium, and Burkina Faso on October 3 in Buenos Aires. According to El Pais, Messi, along with Rodrigo De Paul and Giovani Lo Celso, will take part in the final friendly on October 6.

Brief written by urgent.news from El Pais, New Straits Times, ABC News AU — 3 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.