{"id":490921,"date":"2025-03-17T13:10:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=490921"},"modified":"2025-03-17T13:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:11:36","slug":"leo-messi-will-miss-argentina-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/leo-messi-will-miss-argentina-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Messi will miss Argentina World Cup qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi will not be part of Argentina\u2019s squad for their World Cup qualifiers vs. Brazil and Uruguay in the upcoming days, failing to make the final squad today.<\/p>\n<p>Leo was featured in the initial 33-player roster at the beginning of the month despite concerns about his form. The Argentinian superstar missed 3 games for Inter Miami because of that, as the MLS team didn\u2019t want to take any risks with potential injury.<\/p>\n<p>After a tough beginning of the new 2025 MLS season with 3 games in 7 days, Inter Miami manager Javier Mascherano shared that the superstar will not play in the upcoming matches because of load management.<\/p>\n<p>The head coach revealed Leo didn\u2019t pick up a problem but instead kept him out of each match as a preventative measure.<\/p>\n<p>Messi missed a total of 3 clashes, returning to the pitch vs. Jamaican side Cavalier FC in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> leg of the Concacaf Champions Cup 1\/8 finals.<\/p>\n<p>Leo was expected to make the Argentia squad after being on the pitch vs. Atlanta United at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Georgia and even scored a goal but he was not featured.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\u26a0\ufe0f Understand Leo Messi completed a scan in the morning after the game vs Atlanta United last night.<\/p>\n<p>The scan confirmed that Messi suffered from a small muscle injury in the adductor area and he won\u2019t be available to play for Argentina. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x7v6kAukyv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/x7v6kAukyv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1901664993424077051?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi will not be part of Argentina\u2019s squad for their World Cup qualifiers vs. Brazil and Uruguay in the upcoming days, failing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17143,16898,16724],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17906,17905,21743],"acf":{"announce":"Messi is out of the squad for his nation's upcoming matches.","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\/490921"}],"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=490921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/490921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490923,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/490921\/revisions\/490923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490921"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=490921"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=490921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}