The Argentina national team will be wearing the purple kit for their World Cup qualifying match vs. Peru.
Argentina will not be wearing their sky blue and white kit but instead the purple kit. According to Gastón Edul, Lionel Scaloni’s team will wear the purple kit for the first time in the World Cup qualifiers.
The last time they wore it was in the 2-0 win vs. Poland at the World Cup.
The Argentina national team trained on Sunday before the match vs. Peru on Tuesday.
Lionel Scaloni held a training session on Sunday and will hold another training session on Monday. According to TyC Sports, Scaloni did not try out a team during the training.
Scaloni will speak at a press conference on Monday prior to the team flying out to Peru on Monday evening. It remains to be seen if Messi will start the match or come on as a substitute as he did against Paraguay.
Inter Miami have announced two matches for November in China before the World Cup qualifiers.
The MLS club announced that they will play a match against Qingdao Hainiu FC on November 5 and a second match on November 8 against Chengdu Rongcheng.
For Lionel Messi and the Argentina national team, these would be two matches before the games against Brazil and Uruguay that month. The reigning World Cup champions play Uruguay on November 16 and on November 21 will play Brazil.
Lionel Messi trained with the Argentina national team.
Messi was brought on as a substitute for Argentina in their 1-0 win vs. Paraguay on Thursday and trained with the team on Saturday. According to TyC Sports, Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni will not be able to have Messi for the entire match against Peru on Tuesday but the goal is to try and see if he can play 60 minutes.
If Messi were to start, it would be in place of Julián Álvarez or Lautaro Martínez. Here is the rumored eleven:
Emiliano Martínez; Nahuel Molina, Cristian Romero, Nicolás Otamendi, Nicolás Tagliafico; Rodrigo De Paul, Enzo Fernández, Alexis Mac Allister, Nicolás González; Julián Álvarez or Lionel Messi and Lautaro Martínez or Messi.
Lionel Messi commented on a spitting incident involving Paraguayan player Sanabria during Argentina’s World Cup qualifying match.
Messi did not start for Argentina against Paraguay in Thursday’s World Cup qualifier but he did come on as a substitute. There was an incident where he was shown speaking with Sanabaria and as Messi turned, a camera caught Sanabria spitting in Messi’s direction.
This has caused a lot of controversy and Messi spoke about the incident after the match. Here is what he had to say:
“Sanabria? They told me in the locker room that someone spat on me. The truth is that I don’t even know who that boy is. I prefer not to talk, otherwise he’s going to go out and talk everywhere and will be known.”
The Paraguayan Sanabria has come out and stated that he did not spit at Messi and that the camera angle made it look closer than it was.
🚨🗣 Lionel Messi: "Sanabria (Paraguay player)? They told me in the locker room that someone spat on me. The truth is that I don't even know who that boy is. I prefer not to talk, otherwise he's going to go out and talk everywhere and will be known."pic.twitter.com/tA4VtHGZfk
— Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) October 13, 2023
Incident of Sanabria spitting with Lionel Messi in front of him.pic.twitter.com/jh0fd2WOFS https://t.co/kDePS0f1fU
— Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) October 13, 2023
