Buenos Aires. Forward Lionel Messi said he was excited to get back together with his teammates from the Argentine team and play the Copa América 2021, which will start on June 13 in Buenos Aires, although he avoided talking about his professional future.
“We are with the whole group eager, excited to be able to play this Cup. It has been a long time since we got together, the last time we could not go because of the coronavirus,” Messi told the sports newspaper Olé, after the postponement of the tournament for one year.
The tournament will be held from June 13 to July 10 in stadiums without an audience in Argentina, which is suffering the worst moment of the pandemic, while Conmebol analyzes where it will move the matches that were to be played in Colombia, where there is a deep crisis with protests social.
The forward was called up to play two qualifying dates for the Qatar 2022 World Cup against Chile and Colombia, on June 3 and 8, and then the Copa América.
Messi, the Albiceleste’s top scorer with 71 goals, aims this year for his first title with the Argentine national team, after losing four finals, including three editions of the Copa América (Venezuela 2007, Chile 2015 and the United States 2016) and the World Cup. from Brazil 2014.
“I know that (in Argentina) we are going through a difficult time, also due to the virus issue. Hopefully we move forward and together we build our country, and at the same national level. “
In the extensive interview, The flea He spoke of his family life, his Argentine roots, the nostalgia for his native Rosario, the city 300 kilometers from Buenos Aires, but there were no references to his future at the Barcelona club, with which he ends his contract this season.
The Barça team “is a very young dressing room, with many new people, and this Copa del Rey was a very important turning point,” said the Rosario.
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