[ARGENTINA] All indications are that Argentina’s players are united — a far cry from the chaos that surrounded the team during qualifying. But off the field,problems persist. On Thursday, Argentina national team’s doctor responded to comments by its fitness coach the day before that star Lionel Messi is sufferingfrom exhaustion by saying that all 23 players were in “optimum condition” on the eve of Saturday’s Group B opener against Nigeria.
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