What are the 50 names that Lionel Scaloni has in mind to make the Copa America preselection

Lionel scaloni He was born in Pujato, a town in Santa Fe of just under 4000 inhabitants, 40 kilometers from Rosario and 200 from Santa Fe. Life and football led him to have a foster family: Mallorca , the Spanish city he fell in love with when he played for the homonymous club in the 2008/2009 season. He is there now with his family when the connections Argentina would face Uruguay and Brazil at the end of March for the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifiers. And here too, Scaloni is planning everything related to the matches against Chile, at home, and Colombia, as a visitor, which will be played on June 3 and 8, for the qualifiers, and the great challenge that the national team will have to raise. . days after: the Copa América which will take place in Argentina and Colombia from June 13 to July 10.

Scaloni has not managed the national team for more than four months: his last game was on November 17 of last year, in the 2-0 victory over Peru, in Lima, with goals from Nicolás González and Lautaro Martínez. On March 26 and 30, he should have played the classics against Uruguay, in Santiago del Estero, and Brazil, in Recife, but they were suspended due to the refusal of European clubs to abandon their players for derivative care. of the coronavirus pandemic. . Scaloni had planned to stay at the AFA premises in Ezeiza until qualifying returned in June. But he changed his initial plan and decided to return to Spain to schematize everything.

The Copa América will not be just another competition for Argentina. To be another chance to try and break the 28-year streak without major titles. The last Olympic round that the national team gave was in Copa América in Ecuador, in 1993. Since then, it has accumulated troubles, frustrations and several sub-championships (Copa América in Peru 2004, Copa América in Venezuela 2007, Copa América in Chile 2015, Copa América United States 2016 and World Cup Brazil 2014).

And for Scaloni, it will also be an important test. In a way, the coach continues to be evaluated by the homeland of football after taking the place of Jorge Sampaoli, of whom he was one of the field assistants, after the terrible experience that the 2018 World Cup in Russia has been for the national team.

The technician is aware that his work is under surveillance. He recognized it in an interview he gave to Infobae June 28, 2020: “The only reality is that any coach of powerful teams will always be put to the test. Selection is an important match-by-match test. Now we are much calmer. We have a solid base, a player base, but we always know we depend on how we do. It’s no different than what happens to other coaches. I am convinced that we are on the right track, but in the end results are the rule ”.

According to what this portal of the sources of the Selection was able to discover, Scaloni has “ninety-five percent” topped the list of 50 Copa América players that he is due to present to Conmebol on April 27.. After the matches that Argentina will face as part of the Qatar 2022 route against Chile and Colombia, the associations will have to deliver the final list of 23 players for the continental event which will have a common seat.

Among the shortlisted archers of 50 are Franco Armani, Esteban Andrada, Emiliano Martínez, Agustín Marchesín, Juan Musso and Jeremías Ledesma.

The defenders who will be safe are Gonzalo Montiel, Juan Foyth, Lucas Martínez Quarta, Germán Pezzella, Nicolás Otamendi, Walter Kannemann, Facundo Medina, Nehuén Pérez, Nicolás Tagliafico, Leonardo Balerdi and Lisandro Martínez.

For the midfielder he has on the radar and with highlighter for Rodrigo De Paul, Leandro Paredes, Exequiel Palacios, Giovani Lo Celso, Angel Di María, Lucas Ocampos, Guido Rodríguez, Marcos Acuña, Rodrigo Battaglia and Alejandro “Papu” Gómez.

And priority transfers are Lionel Messi, Lautaro Martínez, Nicolás González, Sergio Agüero, Paulo Dybala, Joaquín Correa and Lucas Alario.

Other footballers for different positions on the pitch are also included in the coach’s draft. Marco Senesi, Cristian Romero, Fabricio Bustos, Fabrizio Angileri and Bruno Pittón they are analyzed for defense; Roberto Pereyra, Nicolás Domínguez, Santiago Ascacibar, Matías Zaracho, Nicolás Capaldo and Alexis Mac Allister They are midfielders to the taste of the coach; and for the lead he keeps following with attention Matías Suárez, Mauro Icardi, Giovanni Simeone, Adolfo Gaich and Julián Alvarez.

The Copa América will be played between the ten selected Conmebol divided into two groups of five teams each. The first four will advance to the quarter-finals. Qatar and Australia had been invited to participate in the competition, but they have given up on doing so due to schedule changes due to the pandemic. In fact, the Cup should have been played last year but that was not possible due to COVID-19.

Argentina will integrate zone A with Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia. In zone B there will be Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela.

The national team debut will take place on Sunday, June 13, against Chile, at the Monumental de River at 18. Then he will face Uruguay, on Thursday 17 of 20, in Cordoba. Three days later, Argentina will return to the river court to collide with Paraguay, at 9:00 p.m. On Sunday 27, at 6:00 p.m., they will close their participation in the first round against Bolivia, also at the Monumental.

The final, scheduled for Saturday July 10, will be played at the Metropolitan Stadium in Barranquilla. At that point, Argentina will be hoping to be in Colombia and win the decisive game to cut those 28 long years without major titles.

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