Football
Dermot Corrigan, Madrid correspondent 8y

Lionel Messi and Neymar start for Barcelona against River Plate

Lionel Messi and Neymar will start in Sunday morning's World Club Cup final against River Plate.

Both players missed Thursday's 3-0 semifinal win over Asian champions Guangzhou Evergrande, with the Brazilian still recovering from an adductor muscle problem, and the Argentine laid low with a painful renal colic issue.

But the pair will feature in Sunday's decider in Yokohama, with Messi reported to have passed a kidney stone, and he and Neymar training with their teammates on Saturday.

This means Messi is to face River Plate -- the Buenos Aires club who back in 1999 decided against paying for the $900 a month hormone therapy the then-12 year old starlet required. The Rosario born kid and his father then flew to Barcelona to persuade the Catalan club to help, and he signed for them soon after.

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