The Rosario star was in Buenos Aires after losing the chance to qualify for the MLS playoffs with Inter Miami. What will the team’s agenda be on the double FIFA day?
A new double day of the South American Qualifiers is coming up and Lionel Messi is already in Argentina. The plane carrying the captain of the Argentina team from Miami landed at Ezeiza airport after 7 a.m. After the necessary procedures, number 10 moved to the AFA facility named after him to participate in the first day of training.
Other soccer players called up with him on the flight were Thiago Almada, an Atlanta United player who was also part of the team competing at the World Cup in Qatar, and his teammate Facundo Farías.
The Rosario star was called up by Lionel Scaloni even though he had just recovered from an illness that kept him sidelined for more than two weeks after Inter Miami’s matches in Major League Soccer. Last Saturday, and after 17 days without playing, La Pulga put on the pink jersey again and entered the second phase of the match against Cincinnati, which ended with a 0-1 defeat at the DRV Stadium PNK .
With no chance of qualifying for the MLS playoffs, Messi will have two more matches in the US league (both against Charlotte FC) and for the rest of the year, he will have four matches against the Albiceleste . The first match will be a double match in which Argentina will meet Paraguay, next Thursday at 8pm at the Monumental stadium, while on Tuesday the 17th they will visit Peru in Lima (from 11pm Argentina time)
The world championship team’s first working day will be this Monday. In the afternoon, from 5 p.m., the summoned players will practice behind closed doors in Ezeiza. At the same time on Tuesday, accredited media will be able to watch the final 15 minutes of the National Team’s practice session. On Wednesday, the day before the match against the Guaraní team that will see Daniel Garnero make his debut as coach, he will also work and Scaloni will hold the classic pre-match press conference.
In addition to watching Messi’s performance after injury and assessing whether he can participate in the match against Paraguay at River Plate, the coach who won the third star for Argentine football also had to be absent a lot. . due to injury. Juan Foyth was dropped and Facundo Medina was called up in his place, something that also happened in the September transfer window when Argentina took on Ecuador and visited the peak of the Peace in Bolivia. The other injury that has been confirmed in the past few hours is that of Paulo Dybala, who suffered a knee injury in Roma’s victory over Cagliari and will have to wait for studies to determine what happened to him.