02/09/2024 09:08hs.
A new double date is coming South American Qualifiers heading to the 2026 World Cup in the United States and once again Argentine football will nourish a good part of the participating teams. With River as the club that will provide the most footballers, and with Chile as the team that will have the most players from the Professional League in its ranks, Olé We review all those called at the local level.
Argentine National Team
The only two players from the Professional League called up by Lionel Scaloni to play the matches against Chile (5/9) and Colombia (10/9) with the Argentine National Team are German Pezzella y Marcos Acuna, both River footballers.
Both the central and the Egg They are part of this golden generation of the National Team and are usually a regular in the coach’s call-ups.However, Scaloni had initially decided not to include Acuña in the list for this double date, because the full-back had not trained regularly during his last weeks in Europe, which affected his playing rhythm.
However, Tagliafico’s injury and the need for a reliable left back have led the coach to reconsider his decision and call him up.
Pezzella and Acuña alongside Armani, who has already announced his departure from the national team.
Chilean national team
The Chilean national team Ricardo Gareca It is the one that called up the most Argentine soccer players to play this double date of Qualifiers against Argentina (5/9) and Bolivia (10/9).
There will be seven in total: The team from the …
Colombian national team
For this double date, in which they will face Peru (6/9) and Argentina (10/9), Nestor Lorenzo decided to call up only one player from Argentine football: Juan Fernando Quintero. Juanfer and Gabriel Arias will be the only two footballers of Racing affected their respective teams.
Paraguay national team
Juanfer, one of Racing’s two players called up.
In his first call-up as coach of the Paraguay national team, Gustavo Alfaro decided to quote six players from the Professional League for the tough matches they will play against Uruguay (6/9) and Brazil (10/9).
Those mentioned by the Argentine coach are: Juan Espínola (Belgrano), Santiago Arzamendia (Students), Juan Cáceres (Lanús), Blas Riveros (Talleres), Gustavo Velázquez (Newell’s) and Adam Bareiro (River).
Peru national team
Luis Advincula (Mouth) and Bryan Reyna (Belgrano) They are the only two summoned by Jorge Fossati for the matches that the Peruvian team will play against Colombia (6/9) and Ecuador (10/9). The Boca full-back, who is usually a regular in the squad, He is one of the three players that Diego Martínez will lose during this qualifying round.
Venezuelan national team
For the encounters against Bolivia (5/9) and Uruguay (10/9), Fernando Baptist He called up two Argentine soccer players: Miguel Navarro (Talleres) and Eric Ramírez (Tigre).
Navarro He is one of the four Talleres players who will be affected in this double date of Qualifiers. Behind River, It is the team that will give up the most players.
Uruguay national team
Marcelo Bielsa will take four players from the Professional League for the matches that Uruguay will play against Paraguay (6/9) and Venezuela (10/9). Two of those footballers will be from Boca: Miguel Merentiel and Marcelo Saracchi.
For the Beast, it will be a rematch of the situation he experienced prior to the Copa America. On that occasion, in addition to being on the pre-list, He was training with the national team in Montevideo, but in the end Loco left him out.
Saracchi, on his part, It is the first time that he has come into the consideration of the Argentine coach, since on previous occasions, both in the Qualifiers and in the Copa América, He had not appeared on the reserve list either. But in your case, He has already played for the Uruguayan national team and was even part of the squad that competed in the 2019 Copa América.
Saracchi and Merentiel.
The other two players called up by Loco for the Uruguay national team will be from River: Augustine Sant’Anna and Nicolas Fonseca.
Fonseca, who returned to play this weekend in the goalless draw against Independiente, arrives with competitive rhythm. On the other hand, Sant’Anna has not played an official match for more than three months, although he had minutes in a friendly against Millonarios in July. Both players They will travel to join Loco’s squad, who is leading the Celeste in a solid campaign in the Qualifiers.
River, the team with the most players called up
- River: Germán Pezzella, Marcos Acuña (Argentina), Paulo Diaz (Chile), Adam Bareiro (Paraguay), Augustin Sant’Anna and Nicolas Fonseca (Uruguay).
- Workshops: Miguel Navarro (Venezuela), Matias Catalan, Bruno Barticciotto (Chile) and Blas Riveros (Paraguay)
- Boca: Luis Advíncula (Peru), Miguel Merentiel and Marcelo Saracchi (Uruguay)
- Racing: Gabriel Arias (Chile) and Juan Fernando Quintero (Colombia)
- Belgrano: Juan Espínola (Paraguay) and Bryan Reyna (Peru)
- Hurricane: Rodrigo Echeverria and Williams Alarcon (Chile)
- Independent: Felipe Loyola (Chile)
- Lanus: Juan Caceres (Paraguay)
- Students: Santiago Arzamendia (Paraguay)
- Newell’s: Gustavo Velazquez (Paraguay)
- Tigre: Eric Ramirez (Venezuela)
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