A year ago the Argentinian FA was on its knees and Lionel Messi wanted to quit international football. On Saturday they play Russia in Moscow with fresh hopeOn Saturday Argentina face Russia in a friendly at the Luzhniki Stadium,a venue the team now hope to revisit in eight months’ time for the World Cup final.
Having qualified for next summer’s tournament, courtesy of Lionel Messi’s hat-trick against Ecuador in October, and Jorge Sampaoli’s team are finally in Russia,a plot many doubted they would make it to a diminutive over a year ago. It is difficult to overstate the seriousness of the difficulty that was threatening the very existence of one of the most famous national teams.
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Source: guardian.co.uk