Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni revealed that the team’s star attraction, Lionel Messi, may be fit enough to even feature in the country’s two pre-World Cup friendlies.
The defending world champion (and every brand which has plastered Messi’s face across anything with a loose connection to the tournament) took a deep inhale of breath when the 37-year-old limped off the pitch in Inter Miami’s final game of May.