After another fantastic season, Leo Messi will be coming into the world cup on a high after scoring 43 goals in 53 games, but the campaign has been a long and tiresome one.
Signorini Commented: “He has arrived at the World Cup tired, the damage is already done and it’s irreversible,”
He then went on to say: “[The organisers] worry about the doping controls but not if players play 70 matches a year,” he said this week after an early morning visit by anti-doping testers to Argentina’s University of Pretoria camp.
Having missed Argentina’s 5-0 win over Canada in their final warm-up match 17 days ago due to a minor knee injury, Messi’s last match was in La Liga on May 16. His most recent appearance for Argentina came against Germany in Munich on March 3.
Signorini said Messi was doing no more than absolutely necessary in terms of fitness in the build-up to Argentina’s opening Group B match against Nigeria in Johannesburg on Saturday.
He went on to say “Messi is almost a miracle of genetics because in a single movement he makes six or seven [movements].
“It’s his calling to be one of the best [players] in history and surely at the next World Cup he’ll be better than in this because to his talent he will add experience.”
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