Everything is ready. There is no more waiting. The large Argentine delegation, by bus Lionel Scalloni In the lead, this Sunday at midnight they board the private plane with their suitcases loaded with the dream World Cup of an entire country. The selection leaves for Qatar to settle at the University of Doha and in the paper it will be the first confirmed summoned: Franco Armani.
The River goalkeeper is the only player of the 26 who will travel with the national team coaching staff since he has been in the campaign and joins the Biancoceleste advanced team which is made up of about 50 people in total. Armani is already inside the World Cup and is waiting to find out who his 25 teammates will be next week.
Scaloni commands the delegation together with his working group (Walter Samuel, Pablo Aimar, Roberto Ayala, Martín Tocalli, Claudio Martín, Matías Manna, Damián Albil, among others) and the rest of the staff which includes props, masseurs, kinesiologists , doctors, cooks and even a hairdresser. There are also employees of the AFA from the marketing, press and audiovisual, administrative and other areas directly related to the national group.
President Claudio Tapia is the one who leads the procession and is indulged by Jorge Miadosqui Y Luciano Nakis. The flight will take off at midnight this Sunday and should arrive in the capital of Qatar at dawn this Tuesday (Monday evening, Argentine time).
Two days later Scaloni and his team will get back on the plane to head to Abu Dhabi, where the last friendly match will be played before the debut at the World Cup (Tuesday 22nd against Saudi Arabia, group C). The national team will face the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday 16th. Before that, on Monday 14th, there will be a training session open to the public.
But there is another member of the team who will also depart from Ezeiza in these hours. It’s about the youth goalkeeper Federico Gomes Gerth, from Tigre. The 18-year-old boy will be the only sparring partner that the national team will bring to the World Cup. How come? Simple, to complete the group of archers and be four in total. The others? In addition to the already confirmed Armani, it will be Emiliano Martinez and the other share would be occupied by Geronimo Rulliwho would win the arm wrestling match Giovanni Musso.
This Sunday, Scaloni closely followed the action of the Argentines in the various championships. The good news was that John Foyth reappeared among the Villarreal substitutes two months after recovering from the injury. Even though he did not participate in his team’s 2-0 defeat to Mallorca, his recovery is a given. He bid to occupy the ninth position of the defense (in case the TD decides to bring nine defenders) with Facundo Medina and Nehuén Pérez.
On the other hand, in the draw of the Atletico Madrid with Spanish (1-1), Nahuel Molina Y Rodrigo De Paul They have been inserted, while Angel Correa has entered the complement.
The new scare gave Luca Martinez Quartawho suffered a blow to his right ankle and had to be replaced in Fiorentina’s 2-0 win over Sampdoria. the former River is excluded from the final listapart from this incident.
Lisandro Martinez He started in the defeat of Manchester United at the hands of Aston Villa Dibu Martinez. In Germany, Exequiel Palacios added more minutes in the second half of Bayer Leverkusen’s 5-0 defeat of Union Berlin.
The main concern continues to be his injury Young Lo Celso, who will undergo the latest studies on Monday to determine the degree of injury to his right hamstring while playing for Villarreal. Then the Spanish club will release an official medical report and it will be known if he has any hope of entering Scaloni’s list.
As the one who rested this Sunday and saw Paris Saint-Germain’s 2-1 against Lorient from the outside was Leone Messi. the captain of the Scaloneta He has an inflamed Achilles tendon and will be back in training this week.
Source: Clarin
