Carlo Ancelotti throws flowers at Nico Paz, and won’t give up on the Under-20 World Cup?: “He has a projection to play for the first team”

The Italian Charles Ancelotticoach of real Madridon Monday he praised Argentina’s youth Nico Pazwhich he has added in the last few hours to the first team’s training sessions to prepare for this Tuesday’s match against Real Sociedad, for the Spanish championship.

“Nico has the projections to play in the first team. He’s doing very well with Arbeloa and Raúl”Ancelotti commented on the player who alternates matches with Álvaro Arbeloa’s Juvenil A and Raúl González Blanco’s Castilla.

Born 18 years ago in Tenerife, where his father Pablo Paz played (1997-2000 and 2001-2002), Nico joined Madrid’s youth academy in 2017 from the Canarian club and has become one of the great promises of the Albiceleste and the White House.

He is in fact one of the 37 called up by Javier Mascherano in the preliminary list of the Sub 20 World Cup in Argentina, even if It appears he will suffer the same fate as Alejandro Garnacho, who will not be loaned out from Manchester United and will have to watch the tournament on television.

Along with England’s Brighton’s Facundo Buonanotte, Paz was one of two players active abroad who participated in the South American Sub 20 in which the Argentina national team had run out of chances to play in the World Cup. That all changed when AFA President Claudio Chiqui Tapia managed to make the country the host of the event after FIFA took the organization away from Indonesia.

However, everything indicates that Paz, one of those who did the most to avoid elimination in Colombia and who was clamoring for a rematch with the national team, will be excluded from the final list that he will play, since Real Madrid, like all clubs abroad, has no obligation to transfer it.

Ancelotti, all at 9

Ancelotti also revealed that in “the future project of the club” enters the “signing” of an attackerby the French Karim Benzema “He has an age”, 35 years old, despite defending the striker’s performance this season in which he has scored 29 goals.

“The club’s future project is to sign a ‘9’ because Karim is old, but since Karim is now we don’t think about it and the forward line is working very well. Karim has had ups and downs, but Rodrygo and Vinicius they’ve progressed, Asensio is doing very well… The problem hasn’t been the attack in recent years -referring to his team’s lack of defensive commitment in some games-“, he commented at the press conference.

Ancelotti, on the other hand, weighted the performances of Vinicius and Rodrygo.“The Brazilian player stands out for his individual qualities. I’ve had many like Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Pato, Kaká… but each one has its own characteristics. Dribbling players like Vinicius and Rodrygo are hard to find in world football” . he said.

The coach of the Juventus team also assured this I came “He doesn’t need a red card” to punish him, after being questioned by a journalist, given that “all the yellow cards he’s received were enough”.

Ancelotti has avoided talking about whether he will be the next coach of Brazil and has denied that there is a deadline to make a decision. “I already said that I don’t talk about my future, but I’ll answer you. The deadline is nonsense because he hasn’t talked to anyone; but I don’t talk about my future,” he replied.

The message of Ancelotti and Antetokoumpo

The Real Madrid coach, on the other hand, agreed with the words of basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo, who spoke about sport and the concept of failure after the elimination of the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA playoffs.

“They sound spectacular to me and I have nothing to add. I agree with them 100%. In sport… and in life! You can’t talk about failures. Failure is when you don’t try to do things to the best of your ability. When give it your all and have a clear conscience you can’t talk about failures sometimes things go well and sometimes they don’t have a barrel full of stocks but i count them i lost it become a house not a barrel his words are spectacular, not only for sport”, released the Italian.

Source: agencies