Leo Messi did not participate neither an only minute in the première of the Glass Centenarian America 2016 with the selection of Argentina, in the victory of the combined albiceleste against the valid champion, Chile (2-1). "The Flea" there was pactado with the trainer, Gerardo Martino, not playing in front of "The Red" when having very recent still the injury costal-lumbar that suffered does already more than a week in a friendly in front of Honduras.
During the last press conferences of Gerardo Martino already had left glimpse that it was very possible that Lionel Messi was not present in the first party of Glass America with the albiceleste, and at the end like this was. Argentina, however, knew to surpass the absence of his best player to bend to a selection of Chile that, all was said, is not the same of before with Pizzi in the bench.
After a conversation between Martino, Messi and the preparador physical of Argentina, all converged in that the best was not forcing the participation of Messi, by what the albiceleste achieved during the morning of this Tuesday the first triumph of the tournament without the "10".
Of face to the following duel against Panama, however, Gerardo Martino already announced in back press conference to the meeting that the most likely is that Messi himself was present on the terrain of game. Argentinian mimará to Lionel all what can, but is conscious that to win the competition will need, sooner that late, the goals and assistances of the best footballer of the planet.