Scorer last night with Inter Miami – his very first achievement of the new season in MLS – Lionel Messi will not however be of the Argentinian international rally for this month of March. The Albiceleste coach formalized the news this Monday.
Lionel Scaloni indeed unveiled a list of 26 players called upon to prepare these days the matches of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Uruguay (March 22 at 12:30 am), then Brazil four days later (March 26 at 1 a.m.). A group in which Lionel Messi does not appear.
Five L1 players with the Albiceleste
Officially, the Pulga suffers from muscle discomfort and is thus spared. The captain of the 2022 world champions will therefore miss the reunion between Argentina and Brazil – this like a certain Neymar, also forfeited with the Seleçao for an embarrassment in the left thigh.
Note in the Argentine selection published this Monday the presence of five Ligue 1 players: the Marseillais Geronimo Rulli and Leonardo Balerdi; Lyonnais Nicolas Tagliafico and Thiago Almada; The Lensois Facundo Medina.
