The star Lionel Messi is absent from the Argentine squad for the next two rounds of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, according to the squad announced by the Football Association, yesterday.
Messi, 37, played the last match of Inter Miami, the day before yesterday, in the American League and scored a goal, but the reports indicated that he suffers muscle pain, so the coach, Lionel Scalloni, preferred to rest during the next international window, where Argentina will face Uruguay next Friday in Montevideo, and Brazil after four days in Buenos Aires, and Argentina tops the qualifiers With (25 points) of 12 games, superior to Uruguay (20 points), Ecuador and Colombia (19 points).
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