{"id":480515,"date":"2024-03-18T16:44:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T20:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480515"},"modified":"2024-03-18T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T20:44:16","slug":"messi-to-miss-argentina-friendlies-due-to-hamstring-problem","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-to-miss-argentina-friendlies-due-to-hamstring-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi to miss Argentina friendlies due to hamstring problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi will miss Argentina&#8217;s matches vs. El Salvador and Costa Rica with a right hamstring problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Official: Lionel Messi is out from Argentina games against El Salvador and Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe captain Lionel Messi, will not be able to be in the squad for the friendlies in USA due to a minor injury he suffered in his team&#39;s match against Nashville\u201d. \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2exwbiGz0N\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2exwbiGz0N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1769805529579163795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The superstar was substituted at the beginning of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half of last week&#8217;s 3-1 victory against Nashville in the Concacaf Champions Cup due to a problem and didn\u2019t play in his team\u2019s win against D.C. United. during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>His club team manager, Tata Martino, revealed after the match that Leo\u2019s condition will be evaluated each week.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina\u2019s captain has been featured in Argentina&#8217;s roster for the upcoming clashes vs. El Salvador in Philly on March 22<sup>nd<\/sup> and vs. Costa Rica in LA 4 days later, but now he will not be able to join his teammates on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, it is believed that Messi will travel with Argentina and recover with their medical staff before returning to Miami.<\/p>\n<p>AS Roma forward Paulo Dybala and midfielder Exequiel Palacios are also out for Argentina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi will miss Argentina&#8217;s matches vs. El Salvador and Costa Rica with a right hamstring problem. \ud83d\udea8 Official: Lionel Messi is out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":480516,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17143,16898],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[17906,17905],"acf":{"announce":"Leo is out for his country\u2019s friendly games because of an injury.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480517,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480515\/revisions\/480517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480515"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480515"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}