The Argentine coach said that it is not in his plans to give up the Rosario player to participate in the Paris Olympic Games, since his departure for the Copa América would be added to that.
The coach of Inter Miami of USA, Gerardo “Tata” Martinoreferred to the start of the season and the star’s news Lionel Messiwhile with a hint he slipped that his wish would be for him not to participate in the Paris Olympic Games so that he is not away from the team for so long, given that he will play first America Cup.
Regarding the present of Messiin the run-up to the debut of Inter Miami in the Major League Soccer of USA, Martino He indicated: “I met the same Messi who arrived in the middle of last year. He is very well, he trained very well and recovered from the inflammation in his adductor, he could have played all the minutes with Newell’s if he had wanted to.”
Martino gave Messi the thumbs down at the Olympic Games
“We know that in March and June we have to replace him, the issue is that we do not have freedom of contract, that is why we have to adjust the squad to have players that allow us to have offensive aspirations when he does not play, finding alternatives to that is not easy”he stated Martino about the chance of losing Messi.
consulted by the Olympic Games, Martino He also spoke about the case of the Paraguayan Diego Gomez and made it clear what his position is on the matter.
“Gómez has the Copa América and the Olympic Games. We know that we have to give it to the Cup and not the Games. We communicate, since I have many friends there, and I told them to choose just one. I am pro-selection, but in this case there are two competitions together and it implies that a player is away for more than two months, so they are going to tell me which tournament they want him for,” he said.
Finally, Martino He detailed his goal in football in relation to the captain of the Albiceleste team: “I will try to ensure that he does not have so much wear and tear and that he receives the ball in the final meters, in an almost defining zone, which is 15 meters behind any player. The worst that can happen to us is that he does not touch the ball. “We have a mechanism that can accommodate us, quickly, to the place where he ends up to be able to recover it with some haste.”
Source: Ambito
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