Angel of Miaría He said goodbye to Benfica to their 37 years The top scorer of the Club World Cup Thanks to its four goals in the tournament that is being played in the United States, the last one by transforming the penalty that forced Chelsea an extension that finally lost the Lisbon team. The Argentine intternational end will hurry his career at the Central Rosary, the club in which he began his professional career, always successful for all the teams he passed: Benfica, Real Madrid, Manchester United, PSG, Juveentus and, again, Benfica. FC Barcelona could have been one of them at least twice. The first was during the winter market of the 2017-18 academic Neymar Junior Previous payment of its contract termination clause, of 222 million euros, even today a world record of transfers.
Overcoming the first impact of the coup, Barça thought about signing Di María to the PSG, who needed to continue selling to balance his financial fair play 'after having also bought the previous summer the previous summer from Kylian Mbappé To Monaco for 180 million. There was no agreement because Barça remained far from what the PSG asked to free the 'noodle': 80 million euros. Di María was then 29 years old, so it was normal to think that it was too much for a player who was going to bring the final stretch of his career. The subsequent statistical reality denied that logical assumption. Seeing Di Maria's subsequent performance figures to that attempt at Barça, his signing would have been the best way to take revenge with the PSG, even paying in full what they asked in Paris.
Di María He continued playing in the PSG Until 2022, then he played a season at the Juventus and finally acted the last two campaigns in the Benfica. During that period of his sports career that covers eight seasons, the Argentine played a total of 338 partieshe noted 108 goalsdio 111 assists And he was on the court 23,850 minutes.
To calibrate the regularity of their performance, better to attend to their averages: 42 parties disputed for season, 13.5 goals, 13.8 Assistance y 2,981 minutes per year In the grass. During this period, in four of those eight campaigns he had a direct influence towards the goal above thirty so many in their teams up to four seasons: for the PSG: in the 2018-19 academic year he scored 19 goals and gave 17 assists and in 2019-20 he manufactured 13 and 23, while for Benfica in 2023-24 he contributed 17 and 15 and in 2024-25 he signed 19 and 10.
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In addition to that failed signing conato in the winter market of the 2017-18 season, in the summer of 2022, after finishing his contract with a PSG in which he always ended up winning a prominence, Di María sounded again for Barça. He was then 34 years old and it was Juventus who opted for his arrival. Months later, in December, it was important in the achievement of the third title of the World Cup for Argentina of Leo Messia great friend of his, scoring the first goal in the final of the Qatar tournament against France. In 2023, he returned to Lisbon to sign for Benfica, whom he had left in 2010 to go to Real Madrid, with which he won the Champions League in 2014.
Di María has 36 titles in its brilliant career, including six with the Argentine National Team: the Copa América de 2021 and 2024, the 2022 final and the mentioned World Cup in Qatar 2022, which add up to the 2007 CANADÁ SUB-20 World Cup in Canada 2007 and the Olympic gold in the 2008 Beijing Games with the Sub-23.
