The striker has become the first Argentine footballer in history to win the Copa Libertadores, the World Cup and the Champions League throughout his career
He has not played any minute in his team’s victory in the final against Inter
Julián Álvarez never tires of adding titles to his record. ‘La Araña’ has been proclaimed champion of the Champions League with Manchester City, putting the final finishing touch to his season. Already He is the first Argentine footballer to win the three major titles: World Cup, Champions League and Copa Libertadores.
The footballer from Calchín, only 23 years old, has been, as he explained in statements to ESPN as soon as the game against Inter Milan finished, “an amazing year”. Unlike his indisputable role in the World Cup, he did not participate in the Istanbul final. Either way, has added the Premier – FA Cup – Champions treble.
Despite being a still very young player, he was also a fundamental part of the Argentine team that prevailed last December in the Qatar World Cup 2022where he became a fixture of Lionel Scaloni, displacing, even, headlines such as his rival in today’s final, Lautaro Martínez.
Historical record
With Scaloni’s Albiceleste, he had already won the Copa América in 2021 and the Finalissima, a few months before the World Cup, in 2022. The victory this Saturday, for which he was “very happy”, despite the fact that he could not intervene, placed him in an exclusive group of players who, in the same season, have won the World Cup – Champions League double.
The Germans Sepp Maier, Paul Breitner, Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Muller, Uli Hoeness and Jupp Kapelmann were world champions in 1974 and Europe with Bayern Munich; French Christian Karembeu achieved it in 1998, when he was crowned in Saint Denis with France and with Real Madrid.
the brazilian Robert Carlos He achieved it in 2002, after winning with Real Madrid and the ‘Verdeamarelha’; the German Sami Khedira was part of the Champions League that Real Madrid won and the German team that triumphed in Brazil in 2014. The French Raphael Varane he did the double with Real Madrid and, barely a month and a half later, with France in the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
With a promising future ahead, The man from Cordoba boasts an enviable track record both in Europe and in America that already, at his young age, have placed him in a privileged place in the history of Argentine soccer.