The captain of the Argentine team, Lionel Messi, arrived this Tuesday to Buenos Aires to join the albiceleste squad, which under the orders of Lionel Scaloni will face Venezuela on Friday for the last double date of the South American qualifier for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
The arrival in Argentina it means for Messi a respite after the turbulences in the PSG, where so far in 2022 he has barely scored a goal in ten games, and whose fans booed him along with the Brazilian Neymar for the elimination against Real Madrid in the round of 16 of the Champions League on March 13.
The Argentine captain arrived at the Ezeiza international airport in his private plane together with his teammates from Paris Saint-Germain Ángel Di Maria and Leandro Paredes and left the air station smiling, but without making a statement to the press.
The three joined the rest of the squad of the classified Argentine team that enlists in the Ezeiza sports venue of the Argentine Football Association (AFA).
Messi returns to the Albiceleste, qualified for the World Cup together with Brazil, to face the eliminated Venezuela, on March 25 at the ‘Bombonera’ in Buenos Aires, and Ecuador, on March 29 in Guayaquil.
The captain was absent from the call on the double date previous January and February last when he had just rejoined PSG after contracting covid-19 in December in Argentina.
Nor did he play the last game with PSGin the 3-0 defeat against Monaco, due to a flu-like state.