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Lionel Messi is out of the Argentine team for friendlies in the US due to a “small injury”
The captain of the world champion Argentine team, Lionel Messi, will not participate in the next matches that the Albiceleste will play next week in the United States, due to a muscle injury, as confirmed this Sunday by the MLS.
Free Press, AFP
Messi, 36 years old, was outside the call due to an illness generated in the last meeting who played with his team, Inter Miamilast week, in front of Nashville SC.
The Garzas club announced that the Argentine star had a “small injury to the hamstring of the right leg“.
The MLS, the United States soccer league, issued the list of players who will be affected by their respective teams in the coming days and Messi does not appear there, even though the AFA announcement is still pending.
For this reason, the captain of the champion team in the Qatar World Cup-2022 will be out of the friendlies that the Albiceleste will play on Friday March 22 and Tuesday March 26 against El Salvador and Costa Rica in Philadelphia and Los Angelesrespectively, as part of the preparation for the America Cup.
Due to ailments in his right leg, Messi had already missed a match on the Inter tour Miami in Hong Kongand due to this new injury he was left out of the match that Inter Miami played on Saturday against DC United, in Washington.
Messi has played 11 games so far in 2024, which includes six friendly matches and five official matches, three for the MLS and the two duels against Nashville SC, for the round of 16 of the Concacaf Champions Cup.
For the meetings before El Salvador and Costa Rica, Argentina nor will it have Paulo Dynala (AS Roma), out due to a muscle ailment, while he will have the defender return Lisandro Martínez (Manchester United), recovered from an injury suffered at the beginning of last February, and Nicolas Valentini, zaguero of Boca Juniors.
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