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🚨 Lionel Scaloni: "How did Messi communicate his presence in the World Cup? I simply sent him a message. He told me that he would wait for the squad announcement and that he would be among the called-up players, that was all. So I told him: ‘Alright, you’re in the squad,’ and that was the end of it.
"We all expected that he might make some kind of announcement and I was probably the first to think he would. But in the end, he did what any player would do, he waited for the coach’s call-up.
"Honestly, it gave me a lot of peace of mind when he told me he wasn’t going to make any announcement and that he would simply wait for the list of selected players. And that’s exactly what happened.
"I only contact him when I feel the timing is right. At that moment, some time ago, when the squad list was practically decided on our end, we told him and that was his response.”
