Global News published this video item, entitled “Messi trains with PSG’s Neymar, Mbappe for 1st time; head coach says still too early to play” – below is their description.
Soccer star Lionel Messi joined PSG’s training session for the first time on Friday, doing runs and dribbles on the pitch with fellow strikers Kylian Mbappe and Neymar.
However, he is unlikely to play any part in Saturday’s Ligue 1 game against Strasbourg, head coach and Paris Saint Germain manager Mauricio Pochettino said in a Friday press conference.
“We will take it step by step, getting to know each other and the priority is for him to be fit, feel comfortable, so that he is in the best condition to make his debut.” Pochettino said of 34-year-old Messi.
Messi, who won 10 La Liga and four Champions League titles during a 17-year long stint at Barcelona, led Argentina to the Copa America title with a 1-0 win over hosts and traditional rivals Brazil in July 11 final.
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south.
With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth largest in the Americas, the second largest in South America after Brazil, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation by area.
Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Brazil is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas, as well as the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country.
Its Amazon basin includes a vast tropical forest, home to diverse wildlife, a variety of ecological systems, and extensive natural resources spanning numerous protected habitats. Brazil is classified as an upper-middle income economy by the World Bank and a newly industrialized country.
Lionel Andrés Messi is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains both La Liga club Barcelona and the Argentina national team. With the exclusion of only, perhaps, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi is regarded by many as the best football player on the planet.
Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero is an Argentine professional football manager and former player who is the current head coach of Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain. He was previously the manager of Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur FC for five years.
Paris, France‘s capital, is a major European city and a global center for art, fashion, gastronomy and culture. Its 19th-century cityscape is crisscrossed by wide boulevards and the River Seine. Major landmarks include the Eiffel Tower, the 12th-century, Gothic Notre-Dame cathedral and the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Élysées.
Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, commonly referred to as Paris Saint-Germain, PSG, Paris or Paris SG, is a professional football club based in Paris, France. They compete in Ligue 1, the top division of French football.
