The Spanish sports newspaper, Marca, said that the club and the national team “reached an agreement”, after discussions between Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni and the Saint-Germain administration, without revealing its details.
Previous press reports indicated a clause in Messi’s (34) contract with Paris Saint-Germain, allowing him to prioritize international matches with “tango dancers” at the expense of his French team’s meetings.
Messi was a dispute between his club and his country recently, after he missed Saint-Germain in the last two meetings due to injury, and then joined directly with the Argentina national team.
The Paris club’s sporting director, Leonardo, expressed his dissatisfaction directly with the matter, wondering about the validity of the decision to call Messi up for the Argentina national team in two World Cup qualifiers against Uruguay and Brazil, despite his injury.
Messi did not start the Uruguay match, the first time in 5 years that he started an international match on the bench, and Scaloni forced him in the 76th minute of the match.
“We decided that he would not play because he came from a period of inactivity. With the second half, we needed him to make a leap before the Brazil match” scheduled for Tuesday, Scaloni said in the press conference after the match.
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