NARAHA, Japan -- Midfielder Ariel Ortega will wear Argentina's number 10 at the World Cup finals after FIFA barred them from retiring the shirt in honor of former Captain Diego Maradona.

But Diego Simeone, Argentina's most capped international who played alongside Maradona in the 1994 finals in the United States, said on Monday his country should protest against FIFA's ruling.

A revised list was distributed by Argentina's press officer Coco Ventura on Monday with Ortega at number 10 and the number 23 going to third-choice goalkeeper Roberto Bonano.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter said on Sunday that world soccer's governing body would not allow Argentina to dispense with the number and outlawed their first squad list, which went from one to 24 without a number 10, Reuters reported.

"It's not right that FIFA should not allow us to withdraw the number 10 shirt and that Bonano should use it," Simeone, Argentina's captain in the 1998 finals in France, told a news conference.

Fellow midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron protested against Japan's refusal to allow Maradona to enter the country because of his drugs offenses as a player.