Scaloni urgently called up a Boca player after Senesi’s injury

The technical director of the Argentine football team, Lionel Scaloniurgently summoned the defense lawyer Nicola Valentini Bocca after it was confirmed that the injury of Marco Senesisecond degree tear, will require five weeks of recovery.

Valentini will thus be part of the squad that will face friendlies against El Salvador and Costa Rica at the end of March in the United States. Consequently, Boca will lose him for the match scheduled against Central Norte de Salta, valid for the 32nd final of Argentina Cup on March 23.

And he won’t be the only player who won’t be able to attend the local match, as Frank Fabra (Colombia), Norberto Briasco (Armenia) and Luis Advíncula (Peru) were pre-selected for their respective national teams.

With the arrival of Valentini, Scaloni will have among the defenders Germán Pezzella (Real Betis), Nehuén Pérez (Udinese), Nicolás Otamendi (Benfica), Cristian Romero (Tottenham), Nicolás Tagliafico (Olympique de Lyon), Nahuel Molina (Atlético de Madrid) and Valentin Barco (Brighton).

Argentina’s first match will be against El Salvador on March 22 at Lincoln Financial Field, and four days later against Costa Rica at United Airlines Field in the Memorial Coliseum.

The others called up:

In addition to the aforementioned defenders, Scaloni cited the archers Franco Armani, Walter Benítez and Emiliano Martínez. THE midfielders Those who will participate in the tour are Exequiel Palacios, Rodrigo De Paul, Leandro Paredes, Alexis Mac Allister, Enzo Fernández and Giovani Lo Celso.

Meanwhile, the in front of Available will be Alejandro Garnacho, Facundo Buonanotte, Valentín Carboni, Ángel Di María, Lionel Messi, Julián Álvarez, Lautaro Martínez and Paulo Dybala.

In the absences category there are several world champions who will not be present at the first race of the year for the Staircase. Five of them will be missing due to injuries: these are Gonzalo Montiel, Lisandro Martinez, John Foyth, Marcos Acuna AND Guido Rodriguez.

Another absentee is the goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli, who is not active in his club, Dutch Ajax. However, the lack of calls from two fully active men are more striking: Angelo Correaof Atlético de Madrid, e Thiago Almadaof Atlanta United, who was also instrumental in the Under-23 team that qualified for the Paris Olympic Games.

The world champions will also be missing Alexander Gomezwho is serving a two-year ban after failing a drugs test taken after a match when he was still playing for Spanish club Sevilla.