Six-time world footballer Lionel Messi will miss the next league game for his club FC Barcelona. The 33-year-old will return to team training after the treatment of an ankle injury after the upcoming Barça game in the Spanish La Liga on Tuesday (7.15 p.m.) against SD Eibar, the Catalans announced on Sunday.
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Just before Christmas, the Argentine broke Brazilian Pelé’s record for goals for just one club in a 3-0 win at Real Valladolid with his 644th goal for Barcelona. The extinction of the record had moved the otherwise taciturn superstar to an emotional review. “When I started playing soccer, I never thought it would be possible to break any record. Especially not the one that I set up today and that Pelé had so far“wrote the Argentine Instagram.
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Currently, FC Barcelona is following their own claims as fifth in the table. The Catalans are already eight points short of front runner Atlético Madrid. Against Kellerkind SD Eibar (currently 17th), Ronald Koeman’s team is aiming for a three-point – but without superstar Messi, who has so far scored seven goals and three assists this La Liga season.
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