On May 22, the Argentine Football Federation (AFA) announced on its official website that it will play a friendly match with the Indonesian team on June 19.
Argentina confirms friendly match with Indonesia next June
But before this extremely happy news, Indonesia still has no response.
"We cannot guarantee until there is a clear decision," Arya Sinulingga, a member of the PSSI Executive Committee, told CNN Indonesia.
Meanwhile, PSSI president Erick Thohir confirmed that he did not know anything about the friendly match with the Argentine team.
Previously, Indonesia confirmed that it would have a friendly match with Palestine on June 14. At the same time, it said it would find another opponent to compete with.
CNN Indonesia argues that it is likely that PSSI and AFA have not yet agreed on some terms.
First, the match is unlikely to take place at Gelora Bung Karno - Indonesia's largest stadium in the capital Jakarta with a capacity of 80,000 seats.
Besides, the ability to play of captain Lionel Messi and many other top stars is not guaranteed.
In addition, this newspaper also cited information about the friendly match between the Malaysian team and Barcelona Club in 2013.
At that time, although Messi still practiced normally, he did not enter the field because of the poor quality of the grass.
Not long ago, PSSI Executive Committee member Vivin Cahyani said that PSSI will spend 5 million euros (about 117 billion VND) to invite "Albiceleste" to play a friendly match.
“There is no official date yet, but I believe Argentina will come here. They have the world's number 1 player Lionel Messi and many other world-class stars.
If that is the price to bring Argentina here to play, I don't think it's a problem," said Vivin Cahyani.
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