Another friendly of the World Champion Team: when and where they will face River, leader of the Professional League

River is the club that has contributed the most players to the Argentina men’s national team in history. It was also in Qatar, where the albiceleste team became world champions for the third time. Era you are footballers born in the seedbed of the club more FrancoArmaniwho is currently a member of the Millionaire squad.

The relationship between River and the national team has always been very close. And now it grows. The technical staff commanded by Lionel Scaloni has sent an invitation to Martin Demichelis to play a friendly on Friday afternoon at the AFA headquarters, in Ezeiza.

This meeting (in a training tone) will take place one day after the match against the world champions Panama in the Monumentale, as part of the celebrations for the third star. And before the trip to Santiago del Estero to deal with Curacao in the Único Madre de Ciudades stadium and prolong the celebration.

In the match against River, players from the national team who do not have many minutes against Panama or who are not directly called up for that match will play because there will be eight who will not sign the official form. While the idea of ​​Núñez’s team is to play with the usual starters, who won’t travel to Salta for the friendly against University of Chile on Saturday.

Martín Demichelis’ men will thus have the opportunity to play against the world champions on a day that will be extremely special not only for River players but also for former national team ‘millionaires’, such as Giuliano Alvarez, Enzo Fernández, Germano Pezzella, Guido Rodríguez, Exequiel Palacios AND Gonzalo Montiel, have all emerged from the River Plate quarry. and not to mention FrancoArmaniwho usually defends River’s goal but will be on the other side since he meets the national team.

While, Enzo Fernández He stopped by to say hello to his former teammates this Wednesday morning at the Ezeiza RiverCamp. They received it with great joy. There were hugs, laughter, jokes and the overjoyed Chelsea midfielder took the opportunity to have a long chat with several of them and also with Demichelis.

For its part, the River team continues to train thinking about the resumption of the local tournament and the start of the Copa Libertadores. First, on Saturday they will face the University of Chile from 20:00 with the broadcast of the Star+ platform in a friendly match in Salta, in which substitutes and youth players will perform.

In the meantime, the titles will have a special day on Friday. They will play against the world champions.