Argentina’s Lionel Messi. File.
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Lionel Messi will not be in Argentina’s squad on the Olympics beginning later this month in Paris.
Coach Javier Mascherano included 4 World Cup winners within the squad he introduced Tuesday, together with striker Julián Álvarez and defender Nicolás Otamendi.
The 37-year-old Messi, who has struggled with accidents this 12 months, is now enjoying on the Copa America, aiming to defend the continental title he received in 2021. That victory served as a springboard for Argentina to carry the World Cup in 2022.
Messi received the gold medal at Beijing in 2008 in his solely Olympic marketing campaign.
The Olympic males’s soccer event is for under-23 groups, however three older gamers are allowed on every squad.
Mascherano, who received the Olympic gold medal as a participant in 2004 and ’08, will add goalkeeper Gerónimo Rulli, Otamendi and Álvarez to his squad after Copa America is completed.
Midfielder Claudio Echeverri, a current signing for Manchester Metropolis from River Plate, may also be part of.
Argentina will play two friendlies in France earlier than its Olympic soccer event opener towards Morocco on July 24. Argentina and Morocco are in Group B together with Iraq and Ukraine.
