Messi was injured in Inter Miami’s victory and is now a doubt for his team’s friendlies – 2024-03-14 17:42:58

“It probably won’t be the last time he starts going out during games,” Lionel Messi confessed to the press in his national team’s post-match against Ecuador last September 2023. Since then, there have been several episodes in which The Argentine star has been involved in some physical complications.

This was the case on the night of this Wednesday, March 13, in the second leg of the round of 16 of the Concacaf Champions League in which Inter Miami advanced to the round by defeating Nashville 3-1. with an overall score of 5 to 3.

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It was Inter’s technical director, Gerardo Martino, who confirmed that his ten was substituted because he had an overload in the right back, thus confirming that the absence in last weekend’s match in the MLS was not only a simple rest. “He has an overload in the right posterior, there was no need to take any kind of risk. “We tried to see if he could hold out a little longer, but it was bothering him and so we preferred him to leave the game,” explained “Tata.”

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The former Argentine coach of the Barcelona Football Club, Argentina and Paraguay national team, among others, also added in his statements that “the flea” will be low in the match this Saturday, March 16, in which Inter Miami will visit DC United: “I don’t want to risk it, but I imagine that he won’t be available for Saturday’s game. Then he will make some images and we will see how it evolves.”

The great uncertainty and headache of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) is that until now the degree of injury of the captain of the champion team has not been explained exactly by the management of the American club through a medical report. of America in Brazil 2021 and of the world in Qatar 2022.

Although silence is the protagonist until now, the reality is that the presence of Lionel Messi in the next friendlies by FIFA date of the Albiceleste in the United States, against El Salvador and Costa Rica on March 22 and 26 respectively, is a big doubt.