Kevin Mac Allister made his international debut alongside Lionel Messi for world champions Argentina in a cushty win over Angola on Friday.
Before you ask – yes, the 28-year-old defender who plays his football in Switzerland is indeed named after Macaulay Culkin’s iconic Home Alone character.
Brother of Liverpool star Alexis, Kevin was handed a surprise call-up to the Argentina squad earlier this week, named as a late alternative for Chelsea star Enzo Fernandez.
Head coach Lionel Scaloni named an experimental squad with qualification for next summer’s World Cup already within the bag.
The Union Saint-Gilloise star was considered one of the lucky few called upon within the friendly match against Angola and enjoyed his dream moment on Friday, replacing Giovanni Lo Ceslo after an hour.
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In a moment neither will forget, Kevin joined his brother Alexis on the pitch, representing the national team together as La Albiceleste ran out easy 2-0 winners in Luanda.
Lionel Messi was on the rating sheet, netting what was his 115th goal for his country.
Kevin’s parents were such big fans of the 1990 blockbuster that they named considered one of their three boys after Kevin McCallister – although he didn’t quite realise the connection until years later.
‘I saw the movie Home Alone, but I never asked my father or my mother about this,’ Kevin said in an interview alongside his brother with Sky Sports in 2023.
‘Principally we were hearing this interview and so they asked him about his name and he didn’t know,’ Alexis said.
Kevin continued: ‘So I went to my family and my mother said, “yes you’ve your name due to the movie.”
‘He discovered at 18, 19 years old that he was named after Home Alone!’ Alexis laughed.
Alexis and Kevin played against one another when Liverpool met Union Saint-Gilloise within the Europa League that 12 months.
In May, the duo celebrated a rare family feat of lifting title trophies in the identical afternoon in numerous countries, with Alexis lifting the Premier League and Kevin the Belgian championship.
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