Cristian Romero and Julián Álvarez are both fit and trained with the Argentina national team.
Romero and Álvarez both trained with the Argentina national team on Monday. The two players trained normally with the rest of the team and are available for the Argentima national team coaching staff.
Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni spoke about the team and the World Cup.
Lionel Scaloni is presently in Kansas City with the Argentina national team and has the 26 World Cup players in training camp. Scaloni spoke to Diario Olé in an interview about the team. Here is what he had to say:
“How is the national team? Good, I imagine that all of the national teams, we are all the same way. We are thinking about the start, that they arrive in the best way.
“Luckily, we have a base of 60% or 70% that is always the same. That helps for when you get together, all of the doubts disappear.
“The ones that continue is because they have shown that they deserve it.”
Scaloni also spoke about the World Cup:
“We are going to give our best at the World Cup, this team is capable of overcoming the challenge.
“Defend the title? In the end, everytime Argentina play a World Cup, we are always a main candidate.
“The ball could go in or not. The theme is to know that we are going to respect our tradition and culture.”
Emiliano Martínez posted a message on his Instagram after the Argentina national team training in Kansas City on Monday.
The Argentina national team trained for the first time at their World Cup training camp in Kansas City and Emiliano Martínez trained separately from the rest of the team due to a fractured finger in his right hand. Martínez is not expected to play in Argentina’s two friendly matches before the World Cup against Honduras and Iceland. He posted the following on his Instagram:
“Day 1 with a lot of excitement. Sad for not being able to do everything but happy for being with friends and united by a country.”
The reigning World Cup champions, the Argentina national team trained for the first time at their training camp.
Lionel Scaloni has all of his players for the World Cup at their base camp in Kansas City and the Argentina national team trained for the first time. Emiliano Martínez trained separately from the rest of the team due to his injury.
Nacho Ovando of Rosario Central who will be training with the team also joined them for Monday’s training.
Argentina will be wearing both the traditional kit and the alternate kits for their World Cup matches against Algeria, Austria and Jordan.
The Argentina national team will wear the sky blue and white shirt for their opening match at the World Cup against Algeria. They will also wear the same kit for the match against Austria.
In the final group stage match against Jordan, the Argentina national team will wear the alternate dark blue kit.
