Lionel Messi, captain and figure of the Argentine national team, He celebrated his 39th birthday this Wednesday with his teammates in the midst of the 2026 World Cup and then shared a video in which he can be seen training in the gym.
The footballer published on his Instagram account an image in which he appears hugging several members of the squad, in front of a cake decorated with the colors light blue and white and two candles forming the number 39.
“Last night we started with a nice surprise.Thank you!” Messi wrote alongside the photograph, which also includes Rodrigo De Paul, Lisandro Martínez, Leandro Paredes, Giovanni Lo Celso, Nahuel Molina and Nicolás Otamendi, as well as Mario De Stéfano.Albiceleste prop.
The Inter Miami forward also shared a video in which he is seen concentrated performing different physical exercises in the national team’s gym, which is located in Kansas, in the run-up to next Saturday’s game against Jordan, corresponding to the third day of Group J.
Messi arrives at a great moment. He scored a hat trick in the 3-0 win over Algeria in his debut and added two more goals in the 2-0 win against Austria, making him the tournament’s top scorer with five goals.
Furthermore, those goals allowed him to become the all-time top scorer in the World Cup, with 18 goals, surpassing the German Miroslav Klose.
With qualification to the round of 32 and first place in the group already secured, coach Lionel Scaloni could choose to rest several of his figures – including Messi – in the duel against Jordan, thinking about the decisive stretch of the tournament.