Lionel Messi has donated €500,000 to help fight the Coronavirus.
The Argentina, Barcelona and football star donated half a million euro’s to the Fundación Garrahan in Argentina through the Fundación Messi. Per a report by TyC Sports, the money is expected to go towards supplies and equipment to help fight the Coronavirus.
Messi’s donation will reportedly go towards several hospital’s throughout the country.
Javier Pastore is being heavily linked with a move away from Italy and to David Beckham’s Inter Miami.
Per a report by Footmercato, Inter Miami have started contacts with the soon to be 31 year old midfielder. Pastore’s agent has reportedly been in contact with the club.
Pastore joined Roma from PSG in 2018 for € 24.7 million and made only 13 appearances this season, assisting twice.
Mauro Icardi is reportedly wanted by the two clubs, per several reports.
Icardi, still an Inter player, has been on loan at PSG all season. Scoring 12 goals and providing 3 assists in 20 league games, the Argentine is not set to be returning to Inter once the loan deal concludes. Per a report by L’Équipe, PSG will look to make Icardi’s transfer a permanent one.
Per the report, Icardi has apparently already agreed to provisional contract terms. However, with the current situation being what it is due to the global pandemic, PSG will try to lower the €70 million release clause. L’Équipe also reported that Inter are aware of PSG’s interest and could even accept a lower price should a PSG player be included in the deal.
Arsenal are another team which apparently would want to sign the Rosario native. Per a report by Tuttosport, should Icardi not sign with PSG, Inter could try to make a swap deal with Arsenal. The deal would see Icardi going to London while Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang would go to Inter in the exchange.
Leandro Paredes spoke in an interview with Fox Sports Argentina where he discussed Lionel Messi’s incorporation into the current Argentina national team squad.
The Argentina and PSG midfielder has become a staple in Lionel Scaloni’s midfield. Playing 24 matches with the national team, Paredes is surely one not only for the present but for the future of the team. Speaking in the interview, here’s what Paredes had to say about Messi:
“We treat him just like another one (of the boys). That made it so that Leo incorporates much faster. It’s difficult, it’s not easy to treat him just like anyone else.
“We try to make it so that he feels comfortable, for him to know that we are all going in the same direction, that everyone will be with him. I believe that was very good not only for him but for all of us.”
Germany’s Bundesliga will restart on May 16 behind closed doors as all five Argentine’s in the league will look to participate.
With the entire football world coming to a break due to the world pandemic, the Bundesliga is the first European league which will be returning. For Argentina, it means five of them in the league. Here are the Argentine players:
Bayer Leverkusen:
Lucas Alario
Exequiel Palacios
Borussia Dortmund:
Leonardo Balerdi
Eintracht Frankfurt:
David Abraham
Hertha:
Santiago Ascacibar
Here are the matches:
Saturday, May 16:
Borussia Dortmund (Leonardo Balerdi) vs. Schalke
Fortuna Dusseldorf vs. Paderborn
RB Leipzig vs. Freiburg
Hoffenheim vs. Hertha Berlin (Santiago Ascacibar)
Augsburg vs. Wolfsburg
Eintracht Frankfurt (David Abraham) vs. Borussia Monchengladbach
Sunday, May 17:
Koln vs. Mainz
Union Berlin vs. Bayern Munich
Monday, May 18:
Werder Bremen vs. Bayer Leverkusen (Lucas Alario, Exequiel Palacios)
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