No room for Icardi as Argentina names final World Cup roster

There's no room for Serie A's co-Capocannoniere on Argentina's 23-man World Cup roster.

Inter striker Mauro Icardi's tenuous relationship with the national team has its latest wrinkle, with Argentina manager Jorge Sampaoli opting not to include the 29-goal man, making the 25-year-old one of a dozen cuts from the provisional 35-man squad announced last week.

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Icardi will have to wait for his fifth La Albiceleste cap after Sampaoli ended the Rosario-born forward's contentious three-year hiatus with a recall in May 2017. Joining Icardi among the attackers cut from the preliminary squad are Roma's Diego Perotti and prodigious Racing youngster Lautaro Martinez.

Javier Mascherano, who was listed as a defender in the provisional squad but is now shifted to the middle of the park, is the most capped player in the squad with 142 appearances, one game short of matching Javier Zanetti's national team record.

Ten of the players in Sampaoli's squad have 10 or fewer caps. Here's a look at the 11th of 32 final squads unveiled for the 2018 World Cup:

GK: Sergio Romero (Manchester United), Wilfredo Caballero (Chelsea), Franco Armani (River Plate)

DF: Gabriel Mercado (Sevilla), Cristian Ansaldi (Torino), Nicolas Otamendi (Manchester City), Federico Fazio (Roma), Marcos Rojo (Manchester United), Nicolas Tagliafico (Ajax), Marcos Acuna (Sporting CP)

MF: Javier Mascherano (Hebei China Fortune), Eduardo Salvio (Benfica), Lucas Biglia (AC Milan), Giovani Lo Celso (Paris Saint-Germain), Ever Banega (Sevilla), Manuel Lanzini (West Ham), Maximiliano Meza (Independiente), Angel Di Maria (Paris Saint-Germain), Cristian Pavon (Boca Juniors)

FW: Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Paulo Dybala (Juventus), Gonzalo Higuain (Juventus), Sergio Aguero (Manchester City)