Argentina national team players are flying to Kansas for the World Cup.
The Argentina national team are on their way to their base camp in Kansas. Lionel Scaloni’s team are set to begin training on Monday with some players taking a charter jet and others flying separately.
Leandro Paredes is injured and will miss Argentina’s friendly matches before the World Cup.
Paredes will not play against Honduras and Iceland for the Argentina national team. According to DSports, the 31 year old has a muscle strain and will not play in the two matches.
Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni hopes to have him fit for the first match at the World Cup against Algeria.
Six players that are not part of the Argentina national team for the World Cup will be with the team for their two friendly matches before the World Cup.
The Argentina national team will play Honduras and Iceland before the World Cup and coach Lionel Scaloni has called-up six players to be with the team. According to Diego Monroig, the six players are Agustín Giay, Santiago Beltrán, Simón Escobar, Tomás Aranda, Joaquín Freitas and Nicolás Capaldo.
Giuliano Simeone, Diego Simeone, Nico Paz and Pablo Paz will make father and son history with the Argentina national team at the World Cup.
Simeone and Paz are part of the 26 players called-up by Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni and they will make World Cup history. Their respective fathers, Diego Simeone and Pablo Paz, were team mates with the Argentina national team at the 1998 World Cup when they were called up by coach Daniel Passarella.
They will become the first players in Argentina national team history to be the sons of former team mates at a World Cup with Argentina.
There will be 18 Argentina national team players that will charter a flight to Kansas City for the World Cup training camp.
Lionel Scaloni’s team will be based in Kansas City for the World Cup and 18 players are going to charter a flight to go there together. According to Diego Monroig, the 18 players are Gerónimo Rulli, Nahuel Molina, Gonzalo Montiel, Cristian Romero, Leonardo Balerdi, Nicolás Otamendi, Nicolás Tagliafico, Leandro Paredes, Exequiel Palacios, Valentín Barco, Nicolás González, Giuliano Simeone, Nico Paz, Thiago Almada, Giovani Lo Celso, Enzo Fernández, Julián Álvarez and José Manuel López.
