Hello, hello everyone, happy Thursday and welcome to a fresh edition of Football Americas.

I'm Alexis Yunes alongside my Venezuelano Favorito. Ale Moreno, we are holding down the fort here, Ale.

A couple of things to talk about as we get ready for another weekend of football,

but it's about the midweek action that we're going to talk about.

Copa del Rey action, Ale, give me one word to describe that first leg between Athlete and Barso. See, I don't care about that. I want to talk about the real issues here. What are the real issues? Hercules came back from the Super Bowl. Super Bowl. You came back from the Super Bowl. Whatever you may want to call it. You know what the common denominator is? I'm here. You've been here. I've been here the whole time. You know who left today as well? Who's that? Shaka Hislop has gone off for the next month, what it seems, for Trinidad Carnival. And I'm here. I'm here. All it remains. The heart and soul are full of America. The heart and soul of football America's coming from Conme.

Yeah, where is Hercules, by the way? He's allowed a day off yet a long weekend.

All right. It's a fly back earlier because I couldn't fly back early after Benito Ball.

All right. Well, let's start things off talking about another one of Alice fellow South Americans.

Lionel Messi, because Intermiami, have postponed their friendly versus Independent

Del Valle in Puerto Rico after Lionel Messi picked up an injury at the weekend.

Both teams were due to play tomorrow, but it's now been pushed back until February 26th.

Now, we know it's a muscle strain in Messi's left hamstring,

but considering it's the beginning of the season

that's upon us and that it's a World Cup year,

it's a little hard not to panic, Alice.

So this is why we had to bring in reinforcements

whenever we're talking about any and everything, Messi or Inter-Miam we've got to bring in my girl, Lizzie Vetterano.

Lizzie, welcome to the show.

Like I said, it seems like a muscle strain.

It seems like maybe in two weeks' time he could be okay, but it's a world cup here and it's messy we're talking about.

So we're tempted to hit that panic button. How bad is this injury?

Definitely don't panic.

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