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Argentina’s coach Jorge Sampaoli attends a press conference at the Etihad stadium in Manchester, north-west England ahead of their international friendly football match against Italy.                      Oli SCARFF / AFP

Argentina coach Jorge Sampaoli has complained that his side have to play their final World Cup warm-up match in Israel. 

A hat-trick from Lionel Messi gave Argentina an easy 4-0 win over Haiti on Tuesday in Buenos Aires and the squad will fly to Barcelona on Thursday to continue their preparations.

The match in Jerusalem against Israel will be their last before travelling to Russia.

“I’m not the one who decides when we play and who we play,” Sampaoli said after the victory against Haiti at La Bombonera.

Sampaoli stressed he did not want to get drawn into any comment on the tension between Israelis and Palestinians.

But he said: “From a sporting point of view, I would have preferred to play in Barcelona. But that’s the way it is, we have…



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