The Argentine national team was supposed to be Mexico's opponent on the October FIFA date after Mexican officials sought to contract the Albiceleste. The world champions rejected the game. But later, after canceling a tour of Asia, they wanted to reschedule the match for the same month of October due to their financial demands. The Tricolor ended up rejecting them.

The change of decision of the team led by Lionel Messi would not have been strange in an environment where supply and demand rule, only that from the environment of the Mexican national team it supposedly did not fall well that the Argentines wanted to pressure so that the game would be held in the month of October under the same conditions as when they were offered the match in the first instance.

That is to say that for the Mexican directors the Argentines wanted to wake up and impose their conditions in accordance with the poster of world champions, but in the Tricolor's agenda the FIFA date of October, where it was planned to schedule the match, was already occupied with the matches against Ecuador and Colombia.

The rumors

All of these unofficial versions, which arose around the possibility of a game between Mexico and Argentina, were based on the fact that the Mexicans did show great interest in facing an opponent of such magnitude as the current world champion and that is why they sought to schedule the match.

Argentina sought to tour Asia on the FIFA date in October to face rivals from that region, but in the end it could not be finalized due to economic reasons, according to unofficial versions, which is why they now looked to Mexico to try to arrange a match.

However, the Aztec team, having the supposed initial rejection of the world champions, looked for other options to complete their calendar and chose Colombia and Ecuador, which did not sit well with the Argentinians, who tried to put pressure on the media that Mexico had been informal in negotiating the warm-up match.

In Argentina, the version circulated that Mexico would face the Albiceleste in Chicago in one of the two games of the FIFA date in October, which was seen as a joke generated by the South Americans' own interests.

The Mexican national team announced that their warm-up matches for the FIFA date in October will be against Colombia on the 11th, while the match against Ecuador will take place on October 14th, matches for which the Aztec team finally did not end up accepting the interesting commitment against Argentina.