Argentina’s national football team wants to quickly forget a diplomatic controversy sparked by the cancellation of a planned friendly against Israel in Jerusalem and focus on its World Cup preparations, the country’s football federation says.
“Argentina is seven days from the World Cup. We want to focus on what is really important and which is before us,” a federation spokesman tells AFP in Barcelona, where the national team has been training ahead of the start of the tournament in Russia on June 14.
The AFA had stalled putting out an official announcement until now.
The Argentina squad trained on Wednesday morning at FC Barcelona#s training ground, just a few hours after the friendly match was called off. No player of the Argentina football federation official spoke to the media.
The sold-out game in Jerusalem that had been due to take place on Saturday was hotly opposed by Palestinians, who claim the eastern part of the city, annexed by Israel, as the capital of their future state.
— AFP
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