Argentine international star Lionel Messi is set to rest for a few more days in his country, following winning the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
Paris club coach Christophe Galtier said – in a press conference in Paris today, Tuesday, commenting on the team’s match once morest Strasbourg tomorrow, Wednesday – that the Argentine national team captain will not return to the club before the beginning of the new year, indicating that it was decided to give him a rest until early next month.
Messi returned following the end of the World Cup in Qatar on the 18th of this month with the national team to Argentina, where he was received by regarding 5 million fans in the streets and squares in Buenos Aires, before returning to his hometown in Rosario.
On the other hand, Galtier expressed his belief that there might not be a problem with the return of the meeting between Messi and his French international colleague Kylian Mbappe, even following the latter was ridiculed by Argentine goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez, indicating that it was not Messi who did this. To bring things together.”
And while Messi has not returned to Saint-Germain yet, Mbappe has returned to the club and is ready to participate following the bitter defeat in the World Cup final once morest Argentina by penalty kicks, as well as the Brazilian star Neymar, who bid farewell to the World Cup with his country once morest Croatia in the quarter-finals. tournament.
Galtier confirmed that Mbappe and Neymar wanted to return to play quickly, but he pointed out the need to search for a stage in the season in which the players who participated in the World Cup might be compensated for the short rest period.