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Albania to play Argentina in soccer friendly

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TIRANA, May 17 – Albania will play soccer friendly next month, this time against one of the biggest teams in the world _ Argentina.
Copa America host Argentina will play Albania on June 20 at River Plate’s Monumental stadium in a final warm-up game for the July 1-24 tournament.
“Albania is No. 50 in the FIFA rankings, so they will be an ideal opponent for us,” Batista said.
The Argentina coach is set to field Leo Messi and the rest of his main lineup in that game. Fringe players will get their chance in earlier warm-up matches.

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