FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 19 Tevez begs Messi not to retire Soccerladuma | Buenos Aires C Barcelona superstar Li- onel Messi is believed to be I think Leo has to Fconsidering international think about himself. retirement, but former Argen- tina striker Carlos Tevez has He has to think begged his countryman not to that, if there is hang up his national team boots not a project that Manchester United manager Jose just yet. makes him happy Mourinho After yet another disappoint- and in which he feels ing international tournament comfortable, it is Mourinho worried in Russia, Argentina’s record very difficult to take goalscorer is said to be weighing by Man United’s up whether or not he should re- the responsibility of tire from international football. leading Argentina to ‘very bad’ pre- Messi has helped guide the become champions by season Albiceleste to three major finals himself since 2014, but unfortunately CARLOS TEVEZ Reuters | Manchester for the 31-year-old, he is yet to lift major silverware with his anchester United country. Lionel Messi and Carlos Tevez the soul of Argentina and, as Mmanager Jose Mour- Asked about the possibility of long as he continues playing inho is worried by the ab- Messi making himself unavaila- football, it has to be that way sence of key players from ble for Argentina, Tevez urged “I think Leo has to think about Argentina to become champions help him feel comfortable. because he is Argentina’s big- the club’s pre-season train- the Blaugrana forward to take himself,” he told ESPN. by himself. “As a player and as an Argen- gest idol and he has to take that ing camp in the United all the time he needs to recover “He has to think that, if there “We are wasting a lot of time tine, I tell him that we need responsibility. States, saying that the situ- from the 2018 FIFA World Cup is not a project that makes him not having him happy and not him, that he tries to rest, that he “Now (I tell him) to rest, keep ation was “very bad” ahead disappointment, and then return happy and in which he feels being able to give him a hand to keeps a cool head and that we a cool head and try to be well, of the Premier League cam- to the fold as his national team comfortable, it is very difficult to achieve that target. I think we need him. then we need him to take charge paign. needs him. take the responsibility of leading are wrong in not being able to “We need him because he is and on the pitch.” United are without sever- al World Cup participants, including France’s Paul Pogba, Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku and Marouane Fel- French World Cup ace laini, and England’s Jesse Lingard and Marcus Rash- Sanchez gets visa to Pavard may join Bayern ford among others, as they rest following a gruelling AFP | Berlin Argentina net to bring France tournament. level at 2-2 in a match they Chilean forward Alexis join United’s US tour he France World Cup de- eventually won. Sanchez was also absent Tfender Benjamin Pavard, Pavard, who joined Stuttgart from the camp due to visa AFP | Manchester 16-month suspended prison who shot to fame with a bril- in 2016 when they had been issues. sentence in Spain over a tax liant goal against Argentina, relegated to the German sec- “The pre-season is very lexis Sanchez is set to issue. has signed a contract to join ond flight. bad, the positive thing of Ajoin Manchester United’s Speaking about the Sanchez’s Bayern Munich in 2019 but Stuttgart won promotion in the pre-season is only for pre-season tour of the United absence at a press conference reports in Germany suggested his first season and the player the young boys that have States after the club confirmed KNOW WHAT on Wednesday, United man- yesterday the 22-year-old may himself won his first cap for a fantastic opportunity to the Chile forward’s visa issue ager Jose Mourinho said: make the switch even sooner. France in late 2017. train with us,” Mourinho has been resolved. “It’s really bad and he’s real- Bayern reportedly agreed a He was absent from the told reporters. Sanchez was absent from ly sad. It’s not good for him deal with Stuttgart before the team’s official photo “I’m worried because I’m United’s flight to Los Angeles Alexis Sanchez’s and not good for me, or for the World Cup, to join the German yesterday. not training (with everyone) on Sunday due to what the nickname as a team. champions in 2019. and then I go to the Premier Premier League side said was boy was ‘Dilla’, “There is no-one to blame. German regional television League without lots of play- an “administra- tive meaning squirrel. I know the club is making the SWR said, however, that Stutt- ers, but it is what it is and issue”. Sanchez earned the effort but the US authorities gart were locked in talks with we have to try and make the have their processes.” Bayern over releasing Pavard best out of it with the play- name because it But Sanchez has now been early, after already agreeing a ers we have here. only took him sec- given visa after all and can link 35-million euros transfer fee. “I’m not worried about onds to climb trees up with Mourinho’s squad as The player was keeping his playing Liverpool here or scale buildings they start their build-up to the cards close to his chest on or Real Madrid or Mi- to retrieve lost new Premier League season. Wednesday when asked in his lan... I’m not wor- footballs during “Sanchez’s issue is all sorted hometown where his future ried if we lose street games and he will fly out to the USA lay. badly.” very shortly,” a United spokes- “Let’s see, for now I’m at It later emerged American person told the Guardian. Stuttgart and I don’t know authorities hadn’t granted Sanchez posted a picture on yet where I’ll be this sea- Sanchez a visa, report- Instagram yesterday accompa- son,” he said. edly because the nied by caption: “The last “I’m very happy at former Arse- training in Manchester, Stuttgart however,” said nal star ac- soon” followed by a the man whose stun- cepted a picture of the US flag. ning right-foot strike flew from wide into the Benjamin Pavard ‘We have to collect their bones’: Klopp AFP | London tember 6. Klopp feels iverpool boss Jurgen Klopp Liverpool, and Lfears the gruelling demands every other club of international football are with a host of in- putting players at such risk that ternationals, are in “we have to collect their bones” danger of paying a during the coming season. heavy price for the Alexis Klopp is preparing for the demands placed on Sanchez start of the new Premier their stars, with inju- League campaign with- ries certain to be caused out a number of Liver- by the lack of quality recov- pool stars who are on Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp ery time. holiday following “I don’t want to get too foot- international duty get back to peak fitness because ball political but if they don’t at the World Cup. the Premier League kicks off on stop with these games -- they But there is August 10. are now making it the Nations little time for Adding to the problem is the Cup to make it more impor - players who presence of UEFA’s new Nations tant -- then all these players featured in League, which replaces the who played at the World Cup Russia to usual rounds of international have to go there again,” Klopp rest and then friendlies and begins on Sep- said..