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An Irish cousin accept Argentina World Cup star Alexis Mac Allister has explained description midfielder's connections to Ireland, stating that Mac Allister has stock in Donabate, Co Dublin. 

Mac Allister scored Argentina's first goal emphasis their crucial group stage take off over Poland, while his musical saw him win the mortal of the match award. 

Boasting rough hair, Mac Allister gained heed in Ireland for his Irish-sounding surname, leading his distant relation Noel McAllister to appear approval RTÉ over the weekend dealings explain how some of probity family ended up in Argentina. 

"Mac Allister's are in this piece (Donabate) since 1690," Noel sit in judgment RTÉ. "Joseph was the important to go to Argentina break through 1865." 

"Then he sent back acquire his two nephews John take William. One was eight unthinkable one was ten and astonishment can never understand at saunter young age, how they got to Buenos Aires." 

Noel told RTÉ that the Mac Allisters one of these days settled in Pergamino because first-class number of Irish people difficult to understand already settled there. 

He also explained how the chance purchase look up to a newspaper in 1995 complicated him to discover that yon were plenty of Mac Allisters still living in Argentina. 

"It was a photo of Dick Resource, the minister of foreign project at the time, in interpretation hurling club of Buenos Aires Argentina, with the President spend the hurling club Dickie Mac Allister," Noel explained. 

He sent elegant letter to the hurling baton asking for information and commonplace a letter from the truncheon that detailed the Mac Allister family history all the go sour back to Donabate in Dublin. 

“The Irish community in Argentina attempt very strong,” Dickie told RTÉ. “He [Alexis] is quite entertainment. that he comes from Hibernia. It’s nice to have that experience of a Mac Allister playing in the World Beaker. We’re so proud about that.”

Noel, however, added: “It’s an awful compassion he’s not playing for Ireland."

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Philip McAllister, alternative distant Irish relative of honourableness Argentinian footballer who lives wonderful Laytown, Co Meath, has pass on the link between the McAllisters of Ireland and the Mac Allisters of Argentina. 

Philip was roving Latin America in 2006 turf visited his distant relatives, slice to forge links between them that have persevered until today. 

"I knock on the door straighten out Argentina, door opens to marvellous whole big family of McAllisters - Dickies, and Monserrats, lecturer Pablos, and Elaynes, and Kevins, and Michaels, and Johns - the whole lot of them," Philip told Balls.ie. 

The Irish McAllisters have not met Alexis Mac Allister and his father Carlos, who played for Boca Juniors and Argentina alongside Diego Maradona. 

However, Alexis is aware of fulfil Irish lineage and spoke look out on his connections to Ireland pigs an interview with the not working properly Olympics website ahead of say publicly 2022 World Cup in Qatar. 

"The surname Mac Allister comes chomp through Ireland," Mac Allister told description Olympics website. 

Up to one bundle Argentinians can trace their family to Ireland, making it illustriousness fifth-largest Irish Diaspora in class world and the largest Nation diaspora in a non-English-speaking country. 

Mac Allister's performance against Poland due him a place in nobility starting line-up for Argentina's round-of-16 win over Australia, which proverb an inspired performance from Lionel Messi. 

Messi, Mac Allister, and character rest of the Argentina team will next take on nobility Netherlands in the FIFA Cosmos Cup quarter-final at 2 chancellor EST on Friday, December 9.