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.
Simón Escobar is set to play for the Argentina national team.
Eacobar is expected to get playing minutes with the Argentina national team in the two friendly matches before the World Cup. According to Gastón Edul, the left back will have some minutes in the matches against Honduras and Iceland.
The 16 year old would become the second youngest player to ever play with the Argentina national team with Diwgo Maradona being the youngest player ever.
Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni could use the trainings and friendly matches to determine if someone gets cut for the World Cup.
Lionel Scaloni has several players that have fitness issues and could be cut from the team. According to ESPN Argentina, the friendly matches are going to be used to make decisions and the trainings will be difficult.
Scaloni could cut players due to their fitness.
Nicolás González could be getting minutes for Argentina against Honduras.
González is one of the Argentina national team players that has fitness issues but he has almost fully recovered from a tear. According to Joaquín Bruno, the 28 year old could get minutes for the Argentina national team in their friendly match against Honduras before the World Cup.
The Argentina national team play two friendly matches before the World Cup, the first one againat Honduras on Saturday and the second on June 9 againat Iceland.
