Argentina 2000s squad
Every player who appeared for Argentina in the 2000s — 157 in all, with their career international caps and goals.
Lionel Messi racked up the most caps of anyone here — 207 in all. He also leads the scoring, with 125 goals. The sharpest strike rate belongs to Gabriel Batistuta: 56 goals in 78 caps. The squad breaks down as 15 goalkeepers, 48 defenders, 60 midfielders and 34 forwards — enough depth to fill any formation in the game.
| Player | Pos | Caps | Goals | Legend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ángel Di María | MF | 145 | 31 | 94 |
| Lionel Messi | MF/FW | 207 | 125 | 94 |
| Nicolás Otamendi | DF | 139 | 8 | 94 |
| Gabriel Batistuta | FW | 78 | 56 | 93 |
| Roberto Ayala | DF | 115 | 7 | 93 |
| Sergio Romero | GK | 96 | — | 92 |
| Sergio Agüero | FW | 101 | 41 | 92 |
| Diego Simeone | MF | 106 | 11 | 92 |
| Javier Zanetti | DF/MF | 145 | 5 | 91 |
| Javier Mascherano | DF/MF | 147 | 3 | 91 |
| Hernán Crespo | FW | 64 | 35 | 91 |
| Gonzalo Higuaín | FW | 75 | 31 | 91 |
| Juan Pablo Sorín | DF | 76 | 12 | 90 |
| Maxi Rodriguez | MF | 57 | 16 | 90 |
| Éver Banega | MF | 65 | 6 | 89 |
| Kily González | MF | 56 | 9 | 88 |
| Claudio López | MF | 55 | 10 | 88 |
| Roberto Sensini | DF | 60 | 0 | 88 |
| Juan Román Riquelme | MF | 51 | 17 | 88 |
| Roberto Abbondanzieri | GK | 49 | — | 88 |
| Pablo Zabaleta | DF | 58 | 0 | 88 |
| Claudio Caniggia | MF | 50 | 16 | 87 |
| Ariel Ortega | MF/FW | 87 | 16 | 87 |
| Walter Samuel | DF | 56 | 5 | 87 |
| Pablo Aimar | MF | 52 | 8 | 87 |
| Ezequiel Lavezzi | MF | 51 | 9 | 87 |
| Carlos Tevez | FW | 76 | 13 | 86 |
| Marcelo Gallardo | MF | 44 | 13 | 86 |
| Martín Demichelis | DF | 51 | 2 | 86 |
| Esteban Cambiasso | MF | 52 | 5 | 86 |
| Nicolás Burdisso | DF | 49 | 2 | 85 |
| Germán Burgos | GK | 35 | — | 85 |
| Lucho González | MF | 45 | 6 | 85 |
| Javier Saviola | FW | 39 | 11 | 85 |
| José Chamot | DF | 43 | 2 | 84 |
| Gabriel Milito | DF | 42 | 1 | 84 |
| Fernando Gago | MF | 61 | 0 | 83 |
| Nelson Vivas | DF | 39 | 1 | 83 |
| Fabricio Coloccini | DF | 39 | — | 83 |
| Matías Almeyda | MF | 40 | 1 | 83 |
| Marcelo Delgado | FW | 34 | 9 | 82 |
| Gustavo Adrián López | MF | 32 | 4 | 82 |
| Pablo Cavallero | GK | 26 | — | 82 |
| Ezequiel Garay | DF | 32 | 0 | 81 |
| Andrés D'Alessandro | DF/MF | 28 | 3 | 81 |
| Enzo Nicolás Pérez | GK/MF | 26 | 1 | 78 |
| Martín Palermo Dacquino Guillermo | FW | 15 | 9 | 78 |
| Luciano Figueroa | FW | 15 | 9 | 78 |
| Roberto Bonano | GK | 13 | — | 78 |
| Diego Placente | DF | 22 | 0 | 78 |
| Jonás Gutiérrez | MF | 22 | 1 | 77 |
| Diego Milito | FW | 25 | 4 | 77 |
| Patricio Barroche | FW | 15 | 5 | 77 |
| Juan Pablo Carrizo | GK | 12 | — | 77 |
| Rodrigo Palacio | FW | 27 | 3 | 76 |
| José Sosa | MF | 19 | 1 | 76 |
| Clemente Rodríguez | DF | 20 | 0 | 76 |
| Mauricio Pochettino | DF | 20 | 2 | 76 |
| Mariano Andújar | GK | 11 | — | 75 |
| Julio Ricardo Cruz | FW | 22 | 3 | 75 |
| Leandro Cufré | DF | 17 | 0 | 74 |
| César Delgado | FW | 20 | 2 | 74 |
| Facundo Hernán Quiroga | DF | 16 | 0 | 73 |
| Claudio Husaín | MF | 14 | 1 | 73 |
| Luciano Galletti | MF | 13 | 1 | 73 |
| Mario Bolatti | MF | 12 | 1 | 72 |
| Eduardo Berizzo | DF | 13 | 0 | 72 |
| Eduardo Salvio | MF | 14 | 0 | 72 |
| Federico Insúa | MF | 14 | 0 | 72 |
| Luis Miguel Rodríguez Mamani | FW | 68 | — | 72 |
| Cata Díaz | DF | 12 | 1 | 71 |
| Mauro Rosales | MF | 10 | 1 | 71 |
| Daniel "El Keko" Villalva | FW | 8 | 3 | 71 |
| Hugo Ibarra | DF | 11 | 0 | 70 |
| Germán Lux | GK | 6 | — | 70 |
| Santiago Solari | MF | 11 | 0 | 70 |
| Sebastián Battaglia | MF | 10 | 0 | 69 |
| Mariano González | MF | 9 | 0 | 68 |
| Mario Santana | MF | 7 | 1 | 68 |
| Fabián Rinaudo papá de Almafria de Las Rosas | MF | 8 | 0 | 68 |
| Leonardo Ponzio | MF | 8 | 0 | 68 |
| Emiliano Papa | DF | 8 | 0 | 68 |
| Gabriel Hauche | FW | 5 | 3 | 67 |
| Luciano Fabián Monzón | DF | 7 | 0 | 67 |
| Lionel Scaloni | DF | 7 | 0 | 67 |
| Lisandro López | FW | 7 | 1 | 67 |
| Leo Franco | GK | 4 | — | 67 |
| Sebastián Saja | GK | 4 | — | 67 |
| Lucas Bernardi | MF | 6 | 0 | 66 |
| Rodolfo Arruabarrena | DF | 6 | 0 | 66 |
| Osmar Ferreyra | MF | 5 | 0 | 65 |
| Matías Caruzzo | DF | 5 | 0 | 64 |
| Leandro Fernández | DF | 5 | 1 | 64 |
| Cristian Ansaldi | DF | 5 | 1 | 64 |
| Diego Pozo | GK | 3 | — | 64 |
| Pablo Ledesma | MF | 4 | 0 | 63 |
| Cristian Raúl Ledesma | MF | 4 | 0 | 63 |
| Bernardo Romeo | FW | 4 | 1 | 63 |
| Mauro Boselli | FW | 4 | 1 | 63 |
| Emiliano Insúa | DF | 4 | 0 | 63 |
| Ariel Garcé | DF | 4 | 0 | 63 |
| Rolando Schiavi | DF | 4 | 0 | 63 |
| Marcos Angeleri | DF | 4 | 0 | 63 |
| Jesús Dátolo | MF | 3 | 2 | 62 |
| Germán Denis | FW | 5 | 0 | 62 |
| Lucas Castromán | FW | 5 | 0 | 62 |
| Daniel Bilos | MF | 3 | 1 | 62 |
| Gonzalo Bergessio | FW | 3 | 2 | 61 |
| Gastón Aguirre | DF | 3 | 0 | 61 |
| Fernando Cavenaghi | FW | 4 | 0 | 61 |
| Leonel Vangioni | MF | 3 | 0 | 61 |
| Aldo Duscher | MF | 3 | 0 | 61 |
| Daniel Montenegro | MF | 3 | 0 | 61 |
| Cristian Daniel Campestrini | GK | 2 | — | 60 |
| Oscar Ustari | GK | 2 | — | 60 |
| César Carignano | FW | 3 | 0 | 59 |
| Eduardo Nicolás Tuzzio | DF | 2 | 0 | 58 |
| Diego Crosa | DF | 2 | 0 | 58 |
| Víctor Zapata | MF | 2 | 0 | 58 |
| Jesús Méndez | MF | 2 | 0 | 58 |
| Matías Defederico | FW | 2 | 1 | 57 |
| Rolando Zárate | FW | 2 | 1 | 57 |
| Diego Perotti | FW | 2 | 0 | 56 |
| Federico Almerares | FW | 2 | 0 | 56 |
| José Sand | FW | 2 | 0 | 56 |
| Franco Costanzo | GK | 1 | — | 54 |
| Alejandro Domínguez | MF | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| Leandro Romagnoli | MF | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| Hernán Bernardello | MF | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| Nicolás Medina | MF | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| Sebastián Prediger | MF | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| Pablo Barrientos Gallina | MF | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| Neri Cardozo | MF | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| Martín Romagnoli | MF | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| Franco Zuculini | MF | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| Ariel Ibagaza | MF | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| Jonathan Bottinelli | DF | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| Fabricio Fuentes | DF | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| Federico Domínguez | DF | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| Ernesto Farías Caicedo | FW | 1 | 0 | 53 |
| Sebastián Ariel Romero | FW | 1 | 0 | 53 |
| Mariano Pavone | FW | 1 | 0 | 53 |
| Esteban Fuertes | FW | 1 | 0 | 53 |
| nisola gaitani | MF | — | — | 50 |
| Pablo Guiñazú | MF | — | — | 50 |
| Sebastián Blanco | MF | — | — | 50 |
| Fernando Belluschi | MF | — | — | 50 |
| Leandro Somoza | MF | — | — | 50 |
| Alejandro Alonso | MF | — | — | 50 |
| Rodrigo Braña | MF | — | — | 50 |
| Sebastián Domínguez | DF | — | — | 50 |
| Alexis Ferrero | DF | — | — | 50 |
| Pablo Barzola | DF | — | — | 50 |
| Ignacio Canuto | DF | — | — | 50 |
| Gabriel Heinze | DF | — | — | 50 |
| Javier Pinola | DF | — | — | 50 |
| Gonzalo Rodríguez | DF | — | — | 50 |
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