Angel Di Maria considered retiring with Lionel Messi

Angel Di Maria considered retiring with Lionel Messi

Di Maria also considered seeing a psychologist after Argentina were beaten in yet another final

Angel Di Maria says he considered retiring from Argentina duty when Lionel Messi did, after this year's Copa America final defeat by Chile, but his family prevented him from doing so.

Di Maria told TyC Sports: "When Messi retired, I thought about doing the same.

"You can lose a final, but three in a row, that's something different. I thought about leaving the national team, but my wife and my father stopped me.

"I almost started therapy, but in the end I decided it was something I had to figure out by myself. If I lose another final, that's it."