Racing de Gago and an international friendly with pure goals

Racing has resumed its football activity with pre-season friendlies to arrive in the best possible way at the match against Boca on Friday 20 January in Abu Dhabi for the International Super Cup. For this, this Wednesday, the Academy performed two friendlies behind closed doors in the Cylinder before Bolivar peace. One was a win and the other ended in a draw.

Unlike a normal match, matches had a total time of 60 minutes. For the respective matches, the coach Fernando Gago He stopped two teams from the start where he alternated between starters and substitutes.

In the first match with the Bolivian team, Pintita’s team, which has already collected its own first title In his coaching experience after beating Boca for the Champions Trophy, he sealed a win for 3-0 with goal Nicolás Oroz, Gabriel Hauche and Nicolás Reniero.

The starting team had the presence of some starters such as the Chilean goalkeeper Gabriel Ariasthe defender Facundo Mura and the expert striker Gabriel Hauch. The Colombian was also the one who started from the beginning Edwin Cardonawho returned to the squad on Monday after an emergency return from a trip to Colombia, where he accompanied his wife during a surgery she underwent.

In the first game they started: Gabriel Arias; Iván Pillud, Jonathan Galván, Emiliano Insúa, Facundo Mura; Carlos Alcaraz, Maico Quiroz, Edwin Cardona; Gabriel Hauche, Nicolás Reniero and Nicolás Oroz.

In the second game, the match result was with a 3-3 final, in a match that had goals from the midfielder matías rojasthe recently incorporated Maximilian Moralez and the attacker Maximilian Romero.

The second team consisted of: Matías Tagliamonte; Juan José Cáceres, Leonardo Sigali, Gonzalo Piovi, Óscar Opazo; Jonathan Gomez, Anibal Moreno, Maximiliano Moralez; Matias Rojas, Massimiliano Romero, Johan Carbonero.

Maxi Moralez started his third leg in Academy of Avellaneda converting. The 35-year-old midfielder, who arrived in this transfer window from CNY from the United States to become one of the mentors of the team, he has already paid off with a goal in his first game since his return.

Another of the active reinforcements on this day was the Chilean defender Oscar Opazowhich became a reinforcement of the Academy after passing through Colo Colo. The Chilean defender arrived free and signed a two-year contract with the club.

Opazo could be a key to Fernando Gago’s defensive set-up given that, as he said this week, the player can play “on both sides” and has played “for a long time both on the right and on the left”.

Alongside the Bolivarian team, the coach of the Bolivian national team, the Argentine Gustavo CostaRacing fan born in Avellaneda, who played 11 games in the club

The Academy had a positive balance in the first test he had of the year, thinking of the confrontation he will have with Boca in Abu Dhabi on Friday 20 January for the Argentine Super Cup, seven days before the start of the national tournament where he will face newly promoted Belgrano de Córdoba.