Is Argentina’s Game Against Burkina Faso Going Ahead Today? Latest Update
Burkina Faso’s travel delay leaves Argentina’s second friendly in doubt, with the AFA setting a 1 p.m. arrival deadline and weighing postponement or cancellation.
- The Argentine Football Association set a 1 p.m. local arrival deadline for Saturday, Oct. 3, as the friendly match between Argentina and Burkina Faso at the Estadio Monumental faced uncertainty with the visitors stuck in Morocco.
- A charter flight cancellation on Sept. 30 left the Burkina Faso delegation stranded in Morocco, with players boycotting training sessions and refusing multiple connection travel options to reach Buenos Aires.
- Several first-team players did not travel, with youth replacements taking their places, while the AFA sought to avoid cancellation and retain match fees for the friendly.
- Diario reported the team en route early Saturday, though the association weighed contingency plans including postponement or substituting an Argentine club to salvage the event.
- Argentina's international schedule continues Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, with Lionel Messi's farewell match against Benin, intensifying pressure to resolve the current logistical crisis quickly.
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Burkina Faso's national selection lived a busy week before facing Argentina in Buenos Aires in a friendly match, on the night of Saturday to Sunday. In question: several flights cancelled at the last minute that delayed their departure and organizational conditions that questioned the holding of the meeting by causing tensions within the Group of the Stallions.
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gelderlander.nlThe friendly match between Argentina and Burkina Faso is going completely wrong. The African country's first team is refusing to board the plane—with the exception of one player. Therefore, the African country is supplementing the team with Under-23 players, according to Argentine media reports.
The Argentina Selection will play this Saturday, three days before Lionel Messi has her farewell with the Albiceleste.
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