Lionel Messi has not revealed his plans with the national team and had decided to sit out games, opting only to inform national team interim coach Lionel Scaloni about his plans, who himself had previously admitted that he was waiting for Messi to come back to the national team at some point.

Diego Maradona believes in Argentina and hopes that Lionel Messi still has a chance of winning the World Cup.

A relieved Lionel Messi believes Argentina deserve their place in the last 16 of the World Cup after being saved by Marcos Rojo's late winner against Nigeria as they avoided an embarrassing group-stage exit.

A late goal by Marcos Rojo give Argentina a dramatic 2-1 victory over Nigeria in Group D on Tuesday and send the twice champions through to the knockout stages of the World Cup.

When Argentina coach Jorge Sampaoli hugged star forward Lionel Messi on his 31st birthday yesterday, understandably not one of the best of days for the five-time Ballon d'Or winner,

Veteran Argentina midfielder Javier Mascherano insists relations between the players and coach Jorge Sampaoli are not strained after reports of unrest within the team camp.

While talking with my family back home during Brazil's World Cup game against Costa Rica on Friday night, I was informed that the three Argentine flags strung up on our neighbours' roof in the old part of Dhaka were removed immediately after Argentina's dreadful 3-0 defeat to Croatia.

Lionel Messi and Argentina hit the training ground today with renewed hope of qualifying for the World Cup last 16.

Argentina legend and their 1986 World Cup hero Diego Maradona expresses that the current Argentina team have no fighting spirit in them after they were handed a humiliating 3-0 defeat by Croatia in their second match of the group stage of World Cup.

The Spartak Moscow Arena turned into a theatre of dreams for World Cup debutants Iceland when they held two-time champions Argentina to a 1-1 draw.

Tiny Iceland made a stunning first-ever World Cup appearance on Saturday when they held 2014 runners-up Argentina to a 1-1 draw in a dramatic match where Lionel Messi blew his chance to win it when he had a penalty saved by Hannes Por Halldorsson.

"We cannot send the message that we are the best, because that's not true." Messi said.

"People need to know that we are not going to Russia as favourites but we have a group of very good players." Messi said.

Argentina’s former midfielder Juan Roman Riquelme believes that Argentina can compete in the World Cup if Messi performs at his best.

Jorge Sampaoli's Argentina are set to visit Lionel Messi’s Barcelona for a 10 day training camp as part of preparations for the Russia World Cup.

Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi says the worst possible draw for his Argentina side at next year's World Cup would be Spain in the first round.

How much did Lionel Messi influence Argentina's qualification to the 2018 World Cup in Russia?

Italy will be one of the four seeded teams in the draw for the European play-offs for next year's World Cup, FIFA's latest world rankings reveal.

Veteran Argentina midfielder Javier Mascherano says he will step down from international duty after the 2018 World Cup.

Argentina’s former number 10 Diego Maradona expresses pride after Argentina’s qualification for the 2018 World Cup.