Lionel Messi, the captain of the selected from Argentina, arrived this Saturday to Beijing together with five companions and joined the team led by Lionel Scaloni, with a view to the friendlies next week against Australia and Indonesia for the double FIFA date.
The star, 35 years old and a new star of Inter Miami, arrived to china land on a private flight accompanied by Angel Di MarÃa, Rodrigo De Paul, Leandro Paredes, Enzo Fernández and Nahuel Molina, all applauded and cheered on the way to the bus where they left the airport.
The arrival of the “Flea” generated a great impact and hundreds of fans cheered him on his arrival at the hotel in which Argentina is concentrated.
The thing is the revolution for Messi is total through the streets of China and many people approached the surroundings with the desire to see him at least for a moment. Then Emiliano MartÃnez and Alexis Mac Allister joined the concentrationBoth from England.
those who will be added later will be Lautaro MartÃnez and Julián Alvarez, who participated (the first as a starter, the former River as a substitute) in the Champions League final that consecrated Manchester City champion after beating Inter 1-0 In Estambul.
With Messi present, the Argentine team trained for the first time in Beijing ahead of the friendly this Thursday against Australia. The players present carried out activation work at the hotel where the delegation is staying.
The staff worked in two different groupswith specific tasks to catch up after a few weeks off postseason at their respective clubs.
The coaching staff also summoned Mateo Morro, Independiente’s goalkeeper, to participate in the tour as sparring partner and who also came with the first group. Work will move this Sundayat the same time, to the Beijing Olympic Stadium.
Argentina will play on Thursday 15 against Australia in Beijing; and then Monday 19 in Jakarta in view of the selection of Indonesia.
The names that Scaloni already has are Messi, Di MarÃa, Paredes, “Dibu” MartÃnez, Mac Allister, Giovani Lo Celso, Fernández, Molina, De Paul, Marcos Acuña, Lucas Ocampos, Guido RodrÃguez, Germán Pezzella, Giovanni Simeone, Gerónimo Rulli, Nicolás Tagliafico, Walter BenÃtez, Nicolás González, Alejandro Garnacho, Leonardo Balerdi, Facundo Medina, Exequiel Palacios, Facundo Buonanotte, Cristian Romero and Nicolás Otamendi.