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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.