TIL Desk Sports/ After including Lionel Messi on his preliminary list of call-ups for friendlies against Venezuela and Morocco, the Argentine national team head coach Lionel Scaloni has said that the Barcelona superstar’s return to the Albiceleste is a great sign. The 31-year-old Messi, who has been in superb form in the 2018-2019 season and leads La Liga in both goals (25) and assists (11), has not played for Argentina since their elimination by eventual champion France at the last World Cup in Russia.
“On the FIFA date, lots (of players) would rather rest, and he prefers to come over,” Scaloni said at a press conference on Thursday evening after unveiling his call-ups for the March 22 friendly against Venezuela in Madrid and the March 26 friendly against Morocco in Tangier.
Those friendles will be played less than three months before Argentina competes in the prestigious Copa America tournament, which is being held this year in Brazil. But he did not say whether Messi would play both games, adding that after the forward’s most recent outings – in which he scored a hat trick against Sevilla and led Barcelona to two victories in a week over arch-rival Real Madrid – it is “hard to gauge his condition soccer-wise.”
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