SNAP Video Lionel Messi sustains back injury Lionel Messi sustains back injury See more videos“We’ve got to take it day by day,” team doctor Daniel Martinez told the Buenos Aires sports daily Ole. Argentina’s Lionel Messi, the five-time world player of the year, is uncertain for next month’s Copa America Centenario after sustaining bruises to his lower back and rib cage in the second half of Friday’s tournament tuneup against Honduras. But Messi did not participate in training and did not accompany the team to California to prepare for its Copa America opener June 6 in Santa Clara. Team officials said Messi was in “intense pain” after being kneed in the back by Honduran Oliver Morazan. See the most-read stories in Sports this hour >>He was taken to the hospital for tests, which found no fractures, and the pain had lessened by Saturday.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 28, 2016 21:04 UTC