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The absence of captain Lionel Messi didn’t slow Argentina on Friday as the world champions warmed up for their Copa America title defense with a 3-0 friendly victory over El Salvador in Philadelphia. Defender Cristian Romero opened the scoring in the 16th minute with Enzo Fernández in the 42nd and Giovani Lo Celso in the […]

Four footballers from Velez Sarsfield, an Argentine premier division club, were temporarily taken into custody on Monday as part of a probe into claims that they sexually assaulted a woman in a hotel room earlier this month, according to the plaintiff’s attorney. Sebastian Sosa from Uruguay, Jose Florentin from Paraguay, and Braian Cufre and Abiel Osorio from Argentina have been instructed to remain in custody for 48 […]