With Passarella as guest, River is preparing a tribute to its world champions at the Monumental

Sunday will be a special day for River. Upon returning to the Monumentale, it will be inaugurated three of the four new grandstands, Martin Demichelis will conduct its first game in Udaondo and Figueroa Alcorta, and there will be a tribute to world champions who wore the red sash at the moment of his consecration in 1978, 1986 and 2022. Among these he is invited Daniel Walkway.

The man who lifted the World Cup in 1978, and the only two-time world champion since he was part of the 1986 squad, has already received an invite from River’s management. Anyway, while he still hasn’t confirmed what he’s going to do, clarion He consulted the people around him and they said that, in principle, the Kaiser’s idea is not to go to the Monumental.

Since stepping down as chairman at the end of 2013, two and a half years after River suffered a league loss under his tenure, Passarella has not set foot at the club. And although last week he was at Eva Perón de Junín, in the homage that Sarmiento paid him, where he lifted the World Cup, his intention now would be don’t expose yourself to River fans and the hustle and bustle their presence can generate.

River will pay tribute to Franco Armani, its reigning world champion, and they will also be invited Paul Aimar AND Robert Ayalamembers of the ‘Scaloneta’ technical staff with a past at River; Norberto Alonso, Ubaldo Fillol, Oscar Ortiz (1978); Oscar Ruggeri, Hector Henry AND Nery Pumpido (1986).

The recent champions in Qatar, Armani, Aimar and Ayala, will receive plaques and medals and those in charge of delivering them will be those consecrated in 1978 and 1986. Pumpido will not be able to be present as he will travel fulfilling the duties of Conmebol assistant general secretary of football. And there will be a special mention to Leopold Luke (another representative of River in the National 1978), disappeared almost a year ago.

An ancient tradition with a lot of glory

The presence of Armani in the Scaloni squad reaffirmed an old tradition: River’s contribution to the Argentina national team in the various World Cups, with an important presence in the three Argentine titles. And if you add the players who have left the club, as happened in Qatar, the representation of Núñez’s club is gigantic.

There were six other players who made up the Argentine squad who are linked to the red armband as they trained at the institution and played there. Those six players, born in Núñez’s nursery, are Julián Álvarez, Enzo Fernández, Gonzalo Montiel, Exequiel Palacios, Germán Pezzella and Guido Rodríguez, who left their mark at the World Cup in Qatar, especially the first three.

Álvarez scored 4 goals (one against Poland, one against Australia and two against Croatia) and had a great performance throughout the World Cup, in which he started as a substitute and then started in the third match of the group stage with Poland.

Enzo Fernández, recently transferred to Chelsea after joining Benfica for €121m (of which River have €25m net left, added to another €18m since his move to Benfica in August 2022) Won title in the third match against Poland, after entering very well against Saudi Arabia and Mexico, especially against the Mexicans, against whom she sealed the victory with a great goal and had a great performance throughout the tournament. And he ended up being chosen as the best young player in the competition.

And Gonzalo Montiel was decisive on penalties. He was transformed in the series against the Netherlands in the quarterfinals and in the final against France, in which he executed Argentina’s fourth shot, the one that definitively gave them the World Cup.

Meanwhile, Germán Pezzella, Guido Rodríguez and Exequiel Palacios also participated as substitutes in various stages of the World Cup.

With this contribution from the youth academy, River was the club in the world that trained the most players of the 52 players signed up by Argentina and France for the decisive crossing of Qatar 2022. PSG were behind, with four, and then, with two each. , clubs such as Saint Ettiene, Nantes, Atlético de Madrid, Racing, Boca and Estudiantes appear.

It is not the first time that Argentine teams have reached the final of the top football event with players trained in Núñez: Beto Alonso was the letter of the Millionaire youth system in the champion team of Argentina ’78 and Carlos Tapia was in Mexico ’86. Additionally, Pedro Troglio and Claudio Caniggia were part of the squad that reached the final at Italia ’90, while Javier Mascherano, Martín Demichelis, Gonzalo Higuaín and Augusto Fernández did so at Brazil 2014.

The origin of this history between River and the national team dates back to Sweden 1958, with seven players on loan from Slumdog Millionaire, and has its heydays in 1978, 1986 and now in 2022, in both cases with Argentina raising the World Cup with the fundamental participation of the players who wore the red armband at that time.

In total, and with this second participation in Armani’s World Cup, there are 50 players that the Millionaire has contributed to the national team in the various World Cups. Boca Juniors and Independiente appear far behind with 29 players contributed throughout history, Racing and San Lorenzo (18 each).

The detail of the players who played in the River at the time of a World Cup

SWEDEN 1958: Amadeo Carrizo, Federico Vairo, Néstor Rossi, Eliseo Prado, Norberto Menéndez, Ángel Labruna and Alfredo Pérez.

CHILE 1962: Alberto Sainz, Martín Pando, Marcelo Pagani, José Manuel Ramos Delgado, Rogelio Domínguez and Vladislao Cap.

ENGLAND 1966: Hugo Gatti, Jorge Solari, Juan Sarnari, Ermindo Onega and Oscar Mas.

GERMANY 1974: Ubaldo Fillol and Enrique Wolff.

Argentina 1978: Ubaldo Fillol, Daniel Passarella, Norberto Alonso, Leopoldo Luque and Oscar Ortiz.

SPAIN 1982: Ubaldo Fillol, Daniel Passarella, Alberto Tarantini, Américo Gallego, Julio Olarticoechea, Ramón Díaz and Mario Alberto Kempes.

MEXICO 1986: Nery Pumpido, Oscar Ruggeri and Hector Enrique.

ITALY 1990: José Tiburcio Serrizuela, Sergio Batista and Ángel David Comizzo.

UNITED STATES 1994: Sergio Goycochea, Hernán Díaz and Ariel Ortega.

FRANCE 1998: German Burgos, Leonardo Astrada, Sergio Berti and Marcelo Gallardo.

KOREA – JAPAN 2002: Claudio Hussein and Ariel Ortega.

RUSSIA 2018: Franco Armani and Enzo Perez

QATAR 2022: FrancoArmani.