With the possibility of calling up 26 players, the list of the Argentine national team for the Qatar 2022 World Cup does not seem to have room for too many surprises. Perhaps the “doubts” that Lionel Scaloni may have gone through as to where to strengthen the alternatives to supply the imponderables that emerge in the month of the Doha rounds. And it seems there is Angel strapthe striker who converted a brace this weekend with Atlético de Madrid and who, despite being present in most of the calls, didn’t have much action on the pitch.
In this sense, the striker scored two goals (against Morocco in a friendly and against Venezuela in Caracas for the Qualifiers), despite having played 14 games (Scaloni led 49), the same, for example, of Joaquín Correa, which could be a “rival” in your search.
This Monday Correa referred to the possibility of playing his first World Cup with the Albiceleste shirt, after being excluded from the last cut of the 2018 Russia preview, by decision of Jorge Sampaoli.
“It already happened to me in 2018 to be in the prelist and I missed it. This impressed me a lot, being there is the dream of every boy. The fact that there is so little left makes the nervousness evident”, he confessed, for which he has immediately added: “To go to Qatar I go as a water carrier, of anything”.
With 27 years, little angel seven years ago it came to mattress where he reinvented himself and even modified his role a bit, to keep the minutes of play. “I feel good. Every year I am growing more, I notice it on the pitch. Maybe years ago I was more accelerated and I wanted to solve the game in a different way, now I understand football a little more and I enjoy myself in a different way. El Cholo Simeone had a lot to do with this, I worked with him for many years, enduring him, everyone sees him as he is. He is unbearable. He always wants to win, he sees football that way, “he said, laughing.
In an interview with TyC Sports, Correa acknowledged that his personal goal is to secure his place on the final list for the World Cup in Qatar, something that Scaloni will have to confirm in the coming weeks.
“As the date approaches, the nerves are feeling more and more. I think the group is doing very well, they have been working together for a long time and things are going well, so we have to continue like this. I feel part of the group. , every time I had to play I think I did well, it is clear that lately it has been easy for the quality of the players that the national team has and for the dynamic it has, all positive, that every player who enters is fine “, he said. .
And he added: “I hope to be on the list. It’s the idea and that’s what I work for. Representing the country would be the best thing. I was lucky enough to always be there and to be able to accompany the group. Whenever I had to. , I enjoyed myself as much as possible because wearing the national team jersey is the best thing “.
A recurring theme also with teammates Nahuel Molina and Rodrigo De Paul, who at the moment is experiencing a difficult moment without prominence on the pitch. “We are drinking mates and every day the theme of the World Cup returns. I hope my career does not end without playing a World Cup. It is the desire of every boy, and to be so close … I hope I can get it”.
What happened to him after the Grand Final?
The joy that meant the victory of the Argentine national team against Italy, worthy of the title of the first edition of the Grand Final, contrasted Correa with a health situation that “scared” him and forced him to take care of himself, even confessing that it shouldn’t even have been close to the London campus.
The same player who emerged at San Lorenzo explained it: “It was a bit complicated. I had seen the thread in my chest for several days. I didn’t say anything to the doctor of the National team because I wanted to be in the Grand Final with him in the group. After the match I was a little scared, even my family, they told me to tell the doctor because it could get infected and it could be severe. It wasn’t a pain, the scar had opened. I was showing the thread I have. When I talked to the doctor, it was better to go back to Madrid to be able to solve it quickly “.
For this reason, once in the Spanish capital, he underwent an outpatient surgery that triggered alarms, since in 2014 he underwent cardiac microsurgery to remove a cyst from the left ventricle.
Angelito felt uncomfortable because the prosthesis that had been placed on the sternum in 2014 had come off and the surgery served to correct that deviation.
When it became known of his illness and the concern of family, friends and fans of Aleti and the national team, the footballer who emerged at San Lorenzo de Almagro published a moving letter on his social networks.
Source: Clarin
