The captain of the Argentine national team, Lionel Messibegan late today to return to the USAfrom the Rosario International Airport, after spending the New Year’s Eve holidays in his hometown with his family, to begin the preseason with Inter Miami.
The best in the world will not only begin his work in 2024 with the team led by the Rosario native as well. Gerardo “Tata” Martinobut he will also meet again with his great friend, the Uruguayan striker Luis Suarezwho agreed to join the Florida franchise on December 22.
Added to the arrival of Suárez are the previous hirings of the Spaniards Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba, forming a poker, all ex-Barcelona.
Upon stepping on North American soil, the football year of ’10’ will begin, which will have as clear objective for 2024 to try to defend the Copa América title in the tournament that will take place in the United States from June 20 to July 14.
But before Messi will have a meeting with the Albiceleste coach, Lionel Scalonia meeting that went “to the intermission room” until the end of the month in Miami.
The conclave was scheduled to take place in Rosario or Pujato last week, but it was postponed because none of the parties wanted to have a public presentation, given the revelation of the place and date on which the talk was going to take place.
The idea of the meeting arose from Scaloni, which would be based on two central themes; one the replacement of players and the other the planning of training sessions that the footballers themselves would have requested.
The latter has to do with the fact that in the last qualifying practices at the Ezeiza facility there were some tasks that were announced at a certain time and then ended up being delayed.
In relation to the preseason with Inter Miami, Messi will face different friendly commitments between January and February. One of them, scheduled for next month, will be against Newell’s Old Boys, a club of which 10 admits to being a fan.
All of these matches will take place before the official MLS 2024 calendar begins, scheduled for February 21 against Real Salt Lake at the DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale.
Lionel Messi’s schedule with Inter Miami
Inter Miami’s friendlies will be: Friday the 19th against the El Salvador team, at the Cuscatlán stadium in San Salvador.
-Monday the 29th against Al Hilal (Neymar’s team) at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
-Thursday, February 1 against Al Nassr (Cristiano Ronaldo’s team) at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Sunday the 4th, against the Hong Kong team, at the Hong Kong Stadium
Wednesday the 7th against Vissel Kobe, at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.
Thursday the 15th against Newell’s Old Boys de Rosario, at the DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, United States.
Source: Ambito
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