Lionel Messi overcame the coronavirus and flew to France to join PSG | VIDEO

Lionel Messi has already overcome the coronavirus. The forward gave negative to the discard test, a requirement to return to PSG discipline. Then, at midnight in Argentina, specifically in the city of Rosario, the soccer player, his wife and their three children arrived at the airport to get on the plane that will return them on Wednesday afternoon in France.

Last Sunday, January 2, Paris Saint Germain released the medical report and announced that Leo Messi tested positive for COVID-19. However, TyC Sports learned that the attacker would have been infected before Christmas, so Christmas Eve and New Year were confined. Of course, the star did not have major problems due to the disease.

In Argentina they indicated that Messi underwent a coronavirus test every 24 hours until he was negative. Immediately, the scorer, Antonela, Thiago, Mateo and Ciro prepared the suitcases to travel to the local airport. Thus, from the early hours of Wednesday, the return home began.

The cited source indicated that, with data from specialized pages, the footballer’s flight left from Rosario to Asunción. After being in the capital of Paraguay during a stopover that lasted about 50 minutes, the section that connects with Paris finally began. So the former Barcelona must be in the European country on the afternoon of this January 5.

Saw it on tv

Messi was not in the game that PSG played in the French Cup. Last Tuesday, Mauricio Pochettino’s team visited the Vannes field, in the fourth category, and won 4-0 to advance to the next round. Kylian Mbappé scored a hat-trick to start 2022 and center-back Presnel Kimpembe had inaugurated the account.

When would Messi play?

The number 30 of ‘Les Parisiens’ could reappear on Sunday 9 against Olympique Lyon for Ligue 1. However, Pochettino announced that he does not know the state of the striker and will submit to an evaluation after seeing him in training (three sessions until the day of the commitment) . In any case, ‘Les Bleus’ will return to activity on Saturday 15 against Brest.