2024-01-21 06:08:16
The Under 23 team, with Javier Mascherano as coach, debuts today at 8 pm once morest Paraguay in the South American Pre-Olympic Tournament that is played in Venezuela and grants two places for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The match will take place at the Misael Delgado Sports Center, in the city of Valencia, and will be televised exclusively by Dsports.
It is a demanding and exhausting tournament, with matches every three days, which will force the Argentine team to resort to the entire squad, which arrived in Venezuela with one less player than the 23 allowed by the sale of defender Julián Malatini to Werder Bremen German.
The transfer of the former Defensa y Justicia was made following the official list for the South American tournament was presented, the Bundesliga club refused to give him up and the AFA might not replace him since that possibility is only considered in case of injury.
Mascherano’s team is part of Group B with Paraguay, Peru, Chile and Uruguay, led by Marcelo Bielsa. Only the first two will advance to the final quadrangular, which will assign the two tickets to Paris for the champion and runner-up of the competition.
The Under 23 figures are Claudio “Diablito” Echeverri, who replaced the injured Pedro De la Vega, Thiago Almada, Valentín Barco, Nicolás Valentini, Federico Redondo and Luciano Gondou.
Argentina’s probable formation will be with Leandro Brey; Joaquín García, Marco Di Césare, Nicolás Valentini and Barco; Cristian Medina, Juan Sforza and Ezequiel Fernández; Pablo Solari, Luciano Gondou and Almada.
Ecuador scored
◆ Ecuador, with a double from Yaimar Medina, beat Colombia 3-0 yesterday in the match that opened the Under 23 Olympic Qualifiers in Venezuela.
◆ Medina, 19, took advantage of a filtered pass from Pedro Vite to score the first goal at the Brígido Iriarte stadium in Caracas.
◆ Cristhoper Zambrano widened the gap and Medina, at the end, closed the win with a beautiful finish over goalkeeper Sebastián Guerra.
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