Today, Sunday, Belgian Union Saint-Gilloise tied with Mechelen 1-1, in the 14th round of the Belgian Professional League. Although they remained at the top, the result was a cause for disappointment in the locker room. Argentine Kevin McAllister even said that he was called up to the Argentine national team for the first time and his teammates applauded him.
The club, which is competing in the Champions League after being crowned champion of Belgium last season, published on its social networks the moment when the former Argentinos Juniors told his teammates that he would join the world champion team, before the next date set by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA).
“Kevin McAllister’s historic first call-up to the Argentine national team! You deserve it!” Post the club.
In the post, alongside the message, a video appeared in which the midfielder and occasional defender addresses the rest of the team in the locker room: “I just want to thank you all because today, two hours before the match, I received a phone call, tomorrow I will travel to Alicante (Spain) to join the Argentine national team.”
The first historic call-up to Argentina for our player Kevin McAllister! 🥹🇦🇷💙💛
you deserve it, @KMacallister30 ! 😍 pic.twitter.com/3njjb4NblK
– Royal Union St. Giloise (@UnionStGilloise) November 9, 2025
“it will be My first time I know that’s not just for me, but for the people in this locker room. “So I would like to thank everyone for this opportunity,” added brother Alexis, the 2022 Qatar World Champion.
Then he said alone with the Belgian team’s press department: “I am very happy, and my family is very happy. I called my wife, and she was crying. It is a very beautiful feeling.”
The Mac Allisters will take part in two weeks of training in the Spanish city and will be part of the delegation that will travel to Luanda, Angola, to face the local team, in a friendly preparation match for the 2026 World Cup.
Father Carlos, and Francis (currently at the Cordoba Institute), the third brother of the footballer, will follow them on television.
A series of factors combined to make the Union St. Gilloise is called for the first time. In addition to his performance and the fact that the coaching staff often monitors and calls players off the radar, there are two other factors that paved the way for him.
The first is the agreement between the President of the Argentine Federation, Claudio Tapia, and the technical staff led by Lionel Scaloni I don’t mention the local football players For the decisive stage that the final tournament is going through. If that had not happened, Leandro Paredes, who is currently celebrating Boca’s victory over River in the Super Clásico, would certainly have occupied this place.
That was the other reason The recent voluntary resignation of Enzo Fernandez, Since the Chelsea player claimed that he needs time to recover amid a stressful season at the English club that has won the Club World Cup from season to season, a tournament that the London team won in the United States.
The match with Angola will be Argentina’s only match on this double date. The rest of the days will be used for training and fine-tuning details. As for the Europeans, unlike South America, they are only now entering critical dates to determine who will go to the World Cup.
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