- Title: COPA AMERICA-ARGENTINA/TRAINING Argentina trains ahead of Copa America
- Date: 2nd June 2015
- Summary: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (JUNE 1, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PLAYERS FROM ARGENTINA'S NATIONAL SOCCER TEAM DURING TRAINING SESSION STRIKER SERGIO AGUERO ARRIVING AT PRACTICE GROUP OF PLAYERS TALKING VARIOUS OF DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDER FERNANDO GAGO DURING TRAINING SESSION AGUERO PRACTICING PUBLIC WATCHING TRAINING SESSION VARIOUS OF PRACTICE VARIOUS OF PLAYER ANGEL DI MARIA DUR
- Embargoed: 17th June 2015 13:00
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- Location: Argentina
- Country: Argentina
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: Argentina's national soccer team trained in Buenos Aires on Monday (June 1) ahead of the Copa America tournament that will be held in Chile from June 11 to July 4.
Argentina is in Group B, with Paraguay, Jamaica and Uruguay.
World Cup runners-up Argentina will face holders Uruguay who knocked them out of their home tournament four years ago during the 2011 Copa America.
Before crossing the Andes into neighbouring Chile, Argentina will play a friendly match against Bolivia on June 6 in San Juan, Argentina.
Superstar striker Lionel Messi will miss the friendly and join the team in Chile since he will be with his Barcelona side for the Champions League final against Juventus in Berlin on Saturday (June 6).
Argentina's first Copa America match will be against Paraguay on June 13 in La Serena.
The Copa America tournament has, since the early 1990s, been expanded from the 10 nations of the South American CONMEBOL confederation to 12 with guest teams usually from North and Central America and the Caribbean's CONCACAF region. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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