Argentina holds its breath. Consequence of Lionel Messi’s injury exit during his last match in the North American Championship (MLS) before the World Cup. Hit in the back of the left thigh, the Argentinian is now the center of all attention in the country of world champions.
On Monday, Inter Miami indicated that the former Parisian was suffering from a “overwork associated with muscular fatigue in the left hamstring”, however, giving no indication of the duration of its unavailability.
“The return to physical activity will depend on the evolution of one’s clinical and functional state”only specified the Florida club.
Questioned on Argentine television, Lionel Scaloni wanted to be reassuring on Tuesday. “The first news is not so bad”, he said on the DSports microphone, remaining no less cautious.
“We would have liked him to arrive in good shape”
“We would prefer that nothing happened to him. Now we have to wait to see how he evolves and, above all, the new examinations that they will do on him, I imagine, to see if it is really as they say,” he continued, adding:
“Obviously we would have liked him to arrive in top form, but that is not the case for him or for most of the players who have had problems. They are not yet fully recovered. Our goal is to get them back to their best shape. »
“We watched the match here, in our (Federation) premises. We noticed that he had asked to be replaced, that he was not feeling well», Added the Argentinian coach, who must shortly reveal his list of 26 players for the World Cup in America.
Placed in Group J, the defending champion must face Algeria, Jordan and Austria from June 16 and will be looking for a fourth coronation. Lionel Messi, for his part, must participate in his sixth World Cup, a record that he would share in particular with Cristiano Ronaldo.
