Messi joins the “UNICEF” initiative to combat Corona in Argentina

Argentine declared Lionel Messi, the star of Barcelona team The Spanish, through his personal account on the social networking site “Instagram”, joining the “UNICEF” initiative to combat the exposure of Argentine children to Corona virus, and wrote to Lionel Messi on his account with “Instagram”, “Did you know that boys and girls are the hidden victims of the Corona virus? At this difficult time For my country and the world, I join (UNICEF Argentina) to help more boys and girls get enough food and not get sick. “

This initiative aims to enable children in Argentina to have a healthy diet that contributes to the prevention of infection with the Coronavirus.

And the Argentine Lionel Messi donated one million euros last March, which was distributed between the Hospital de Barcelona and another medical center in Argentina to fight against the Corona virus..

It is worth noting that Lionel Messi continues the group exercises with the Barcelona team in preparation for the resumption of the Spanish League competition next June 11.

Kiki Sittin, technical director of the Barcelona team, praised the leader of the Catalan team, Argentine legend Lionel Messi, who said during comments published by the Spanish newspaper “Marca”: “It is a pleasure to see Messi train every day, this is fun and proud”, and added during his statements : “We are working well and with great intensity and my team players are fine. I hope there will not be many injuries. We thought we would have more time to train as a group. After two weeks the league will start, we wanted more time.”

He continued: “This situation allowed the players to overcome tension, now they want to return to the stadium with great desire and motivation, we will start competition with tension and extreme stress, because you play in the league during 11 rounds in addition to the physical effort, we will see how this will affect.”

On his opinion of FIFA’s decision to allow the teams to make 5 substitutions in the match, he said: “I think this will harm us. There are many matches that will be decided in the last minutes. If you give the opponent additional substitutions, they will not have many tired players, it may be useful sometimes for us too, we will see “.

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