Messi speaks on Argentina’s Qatar 2022 chances

The football legend spoke to the media in his homeland before the weekend

Argentina captain Lionel Messi has said he feels “a lot of similarities” between his country’s current group of players and the one that reached the World Cup final in 2014, and stressed the importance of starting well at Qatar 2022.

Messi was named in Lionel Scaloni’s 26-man squad on Friday and gave an interview to national sports paper Ole.

“I think it is fundamental and it marks you a lot for the rest of the World Cup,” he said, adding that La Albiceleste must start strongly against Saudi Arabia in Group A on November 22 before taking on Mexico and Poland.

Argentina are one of the favorites in Qatar due to their 35-game unbeaten streak, which includes a Copa America win. Messi said, however, that they “have to isolate [themselves] from everything that [Argentinian] people are experiencing.”

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