Franco Mastantuono It is living a very moved days.
River Plate's midfielder has been convened for the first time for the ARGENTINE SELECTIONafter a great first semester of 2025, and its imminent transfer to European football, with Real Madrid or PSG as possible destinations is also being defined.
Beyond what the leaders and their representative in offices resolve, the 17 -year -old boy will probably continue to do something from his first debut at the beginning of 2024: Beat records. Its sale is expected to be the most expensive in the history of Argentine football and also You can beat a SCALONI era record in the Argentine National Team.
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The Argentine National Team record in the Scaloni era that can break Franco Mastantuono
If he plays with Argentina against Chile or Colombia, Franco Mastantuono would be the youngest player to wear Argentina's shirt in the era of Lionel Scaloni as coach of the National Team.
The player has 17 years and 9 months of age y would overcome Facundo Buonanottewho played 18 years and 5 months in the friendly between Argentina and Indonesia in mid -2023.
Mastantuono would also get that record if he played in September, in the shock shocks against Venezuela or Ecuador, or in the friendlies that Argentina will play in October or November.
As for the younger footballer's record in playing for the Argentine National Team throughout history, that brand was already far from Mastantuono: it belongs to Diego Maradonawhich debuted against Hungary in a 1977 friendly match with 16 years and 3 months.
Only another player played a selection match in the professional era before turning 18: it is Jorge Cecchi, a striker who made César Luis Menotti debut in a friend XeneizeI was 17 years and 6 months then.
Lionel Messi, Diego Simeone and Sergio Agüero, other selection figures with an early debut, did it weeks after having turned 18.
