With the 2026 FIFA World Cup simply over three months away, gamers are actually at some extent the place even a reasonable harm can depart them out of the match. That’s precisely what occurred to an Argentina teammate of Lionel Messi after a severe knee downside.
“Valentin Carboni suffered a tear of the ligaments in his proper knee, which would require a restoration interval of a minimum of eight months,” La Nacion reported Friday concerning the younger winger who performs for Racing Membership on mortgage from Inter Milan.
“In Friday’s coaching session, Carboni went down after a teammate fell on him and alarmed everybody current,” the report provides. “After the medical workers carried out exams on the pitch, he was moved to a close-by heart for imaging that confirmed the worst: he had torn the anterior cruciate ligament in his proper knee.”
That is the second comparable harm Carboni has suffered in a couple of yr and a half. The earlier one occurred in October 2024, throughout a coaching session with the Argentina nationwide staff forward of World Cup qualifiers in opposition to Venezuela and Bolivia.
Valentin Carboni enjoying for Inter Milan.
At the moment, the winger was on mortgage at Olympique de Marseille from Inter Milan, the place his performances had made him a daily choice for Lionel Scaloni on the worldwide stage. Nevertheless, that harm saved him out for about eight months, and he solely returned to motion with Inter within the 2025 FIFA Membership World Cup.
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Carboni is dominated out for the World Cup
With no place at Inter and a much less profitable mortgage spell at Genoa within the first half of the 2025–26 season, Valentin Carboni selected Racing Membership to play this yr in hopes of regaining his 2024 kind and getting again into Lionel Scaloni’s consideration.
He had already been a part of the squad on the 2024 Copa America, the place he performed one match on Argentina’s solution to the title. Nevertheless, issues have been very completely different this time: the winger misplaced his place within the Racing beginning lineup after a number of disappointing performances and now suffered this severe harm that definitively guidelines him out of each the Finalissima and the World Cup.
Second confirmed Argentina absence for the World Cup
The intense harm to Valentin Carboni is the second of this magnitude Argentina have suffered forward of the 2026 World Cup. Only a month in the past, Juan Foyth was additionally dominated out resulting from a rupture of his Achilles tendon whereas enjoying for Villarreal in opposition to Actual Madrid in La Liga.
Whereas neither Carboni nor Foyth was assured a spot in Lionel Scaloni’s 26‑man World Cup roster, each had been included in latest call-ups and have been thought of viable choices for the squad, having additionally been a part of groups that gained main tournaments.
