Messi wants to play in 2024 Copa America in the United States

WASHINGTON: Argentina captain Lionel Messi has expressed a desire to extend his international career at least until next year’s Copa America in the United States.

The 36-year-old has until now remained non-committal about his plans to continue playing for the Albiceleste and admitted in June that he was “almost at the end of his career”, reports Xinhua.

Despite wanting to play on in the short term, the Inter Miami forward said the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico remained a distant prospect.

“I still don’t think about it, it’s far away,” Messi said in an interview published on social media on Thursday.

“I’m thinking about the Copa America, and I want to do well. And it will be right here in the United States. It’s going to be beautiful. We already had the centenary [edition of the Copa America in 2016] here too. We lost the final [to Chile], but the process was beautiful. After that I’ll see how I’m doing.”

Messi has scored 11 goals in 12 appearances for Inter Miami since joining the Major League Soccer (MLS) club on a free transfer in July. IANS

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