As the hours went by, what everyone feared was confirmed. Young Lo Celso stayed out Qatar World Cup 2022, which starts in 12 days, due to an injury. the steering wheel of the Argentina national team became a great partner Leone Messi within the playing field and one of the players who added the most games in the cycle he commands Lionel Scalloni. Replacing it will be difficult.

The good-footed southpaw felt a puncture just over a week ago in the duel between Villarreal and Athletic Bilbao for the Spanish league. He was a muscle soreness in the right hamstring which took him off the pitch. Then we talked about a tear. And a few hours ago it was confirmed that it was a right leg hamstring detachment.

The news from the Old Continent has alerted the Argentine national team. And to an entire country, which sees a loss of weight for the World Cup in the young man who came out of Rosario Central. Rosario had to opt for special treatment to reach a hypothetical crossover in the round of 16. But in the last few hours his future has been defined: he has been excluded from the list of 26 players and will have to undergo surgery, as foreseen by Tottenham, the club that owns his pass.

The words of Lionel Scalloni they were clear about it. “The first thing is health”Said Pujatense a few days ago, giving signals of what his final decision would be.

A left-handed with a top hat and a cane

Young Lo Celso was born on April 9, 1996 in Rosario, Santa Fe. After playing five-a-side football in San José and in the children’s teams of the Jorge Griffa Athletic Association, he arrived at Central Rosary with 14 years. It was January 2010 and that same year Lionel Messi played his second World Cup with the Argentine national team in South Africa.

After running Lowlies on the Rascal He had the chance to move up to the first division: debuted in July 2015, 19 years, in a match against Velez. The elegant left-handed, with top hat and cane, stood out in Eduardo Coudet’s Rosario Central, who reached the Argentine Cup final that year. And he came to prevail over another of the team’s promises, Franco Cervi.

Gio is a thoroughbred scoundrel. “I come from the Sarmiento neighborhood and have lived my entire life five blocks from the pitch. Also, I went to the Regatta club, which is close to the stadium. My friends are rascals; and when I started going to Gigante de Arroyito, I was very happy “, confessed the midfielder in an interview with The graph.

With the Arroyito shirt he played 57 games, scored 3 goals and gave 15 assists. Of course it lasted very little in Argentine football. On 23 June 2016, Paris Saint-Germain bought his pass for € 16 million and became the biggest sale in the history of the Rosario Central, surpassing that of Ángel Di María.

On French soil he was not doing very well. Despite PSG’s local dominance, Lo Celso found it difficult to settle into a superstar team and after two seasons he sought to renew himself in another country.

On August 31, 2018, he arrives at Betis for a loan with a redemption option. In the Spanish team he became team leader. He showed his he facet as a game generator and added what all mixed midfielders need today to shine in elite football: ball retrieval. On 16 April 2019, the Andalusian club executed the purchase option which included the transfer and acquired the record of € 30 million. The big European clubs were already watching him. Meanwhile, At the same time, he became one of the strong faces of the renewal of the Argentine national team commanded by Lionel Scaloni..

The Spanish club sold him for a total of 48 million to Tottenham in England, the club owner of your pass. But he never found his place on the London team and they decided to lend him. He arrived in the United Kingdom on 8 August 2019 and left for Spain on 31 January 2022, already champion of America. This time he ended up at Villarreal.

The return to Spain

With the Yellow submarine entered into a love relationship. He came on loan earlier in the year and The return to play in the Champions League semifinals after 16 years was decisive for the Spanish team. They ultimately fell to Liverpool 5-2 overall, but Rosario’s man left a big impression on the team and the board asked for the loan to be renewed until the end of the year.

Lo Celso’s great season included a second title with the Argentine national team: the Final against Italy at Wembley, 3-0, on 1 June.

Gio is an off-road vehicle. A versatile midfielder. A left-handed man with a top hat and cane who doesn’t hesitate to put on a suit. Due to his characteristics, he has become one of the players with the most matches in Lionel Scaloni’s cycle.

The flyer has been summoned Russia 2018 World Cup by Jorge Sampaoli. In the previous one it seemed to be one of the headlines for the great collaboration he showed with Lionel Messi. But he ended up watching all 4 games from the substitutes’ bench. In the midst of his turbulent world tour, Sampaoli did not give up a minute, in a decision that was difficult to explain. Thus, his dream of making his World Cup debut was interrupted.

It was indispensable to obtain the Copa América and is one of the undisputed titles of the DT. With this injury he will lose the Qatar World Cup 2022 And the ghost of a curse appears that does not allow Rosario’s southpaw to make his debut in the top national tournament.

Giovani Lo Celso was about to indulge in the pleasure of being one of Messi’s key partners in Qatar 2022 but was left out in an incredible way: he threw a cue playing with Villarreal against Atletico de Bilbao and his hamstring leg detachment right .

Gio is a delicate loss for Lionel Scaloni, who will have to think very carefully about who will accompany Rodrigo De Paul and Leandro Paredes in midfield. “Numerically there is a substitute, but not from a football point of view”, The pujatense warned a few days ago TyC Sport. A sentence as precise as it is disheartening.