Messi is training alone in Qatar, in preparation for the meeting with Saudi Arabia

The star, Lionel Messi, started Argentina's exercises alone on Saturday, three days before facing Saudi Arabia in the opening matches of the Qatar 2022 World Cup in football.

He was the best player in the world seven times and the searcher for his first title in the World Cup. He did not go through Friday exercises after the arrival of the “Albi Celeste” team in Doha, contenting himself with working inside the fitness hall.

On Saturday, he arrived at the training headquarters of Argentina, champions in 1978 and 1986, at Qatar University, ten minutes after his colleagues in coach Lionel Scaloni's squad.

While the players went through a group exercise, the French Paris Saint-Germain player and the former Barcelona legend stayed with a member of the medical staff, and performed a warm-up and strengthening process, almost away from the ball.

At the end of the 15 minutes open to journalists, Al-Barghout had not joined the rest of the players.

A spokesman for the team told AFP that Messi "will join his comrades at a later time" and that he is not suffering from any problem.

Argentina fell into a third group, apart from Saudi Arabia, Poland and Mexico.

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