Argentina’s Central Bank is reportedly considering putting the 2022 World Cup winner, Lionel Messi’s image on their 1,000 peso banknote.
According to Daily Mail on Thursday, an Argentina newspaper, El Financiero, claimed that the Central Bank of the Republic of Argentina is eager to commemorate the national team’s historic win in Qatar and has been working on ideas before the win over France on Sunday.
It detailed in the newspaper, EF, that a key part of the reason behind the 1,000 bill is that it begins with a ’10’ – Messi’s shirt number for Argentina.
While Messi’s grinning face is on one side of the note, this group’s nickname ‘La Scaloneta’ is the wording proposed for the back.
The term has become synonymous with this group since Lionel Scaloni succeeded Jorge Sampaoli back in 2018.
Messi led Argentina to defeat France to win the 2022 FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1986.
