2024-02-12 10:32:53
Yesterday, Sunday, the Argentine Olympic team was able to grab the qualification ticket for this year’s Olympic Games, after defeating its Brazilian counterpart, 1-0, in the final quadrilateral round in the South American qualifiers.
The “Tango” team knocked the 2020 Olympic champion out of the next Olympic competition in the Paris 2024 Games, consolidating its continental supremacy after the first team that defeated the “Seleção” in its homeland during the upcoming 2026 World Cup qualifiers.
Constant failures
Coach Javier Mascherano’s team needed to win against his country’s arch-rival, after drawing with Venezuela and Paraguay in the group stage of the qualifiers for the 2024 Games, as the first two teams in the quadrennial tournament will obtain a place in the Olympic Games.
The Argentina U-23 team finished the quadrennial tournament with five points, one point ahead of Paraguay, which will face Venezuela, while Brazil finished its competition with only three points.
A header from Luciano Jundo in the 77th minute was enough to give victory to Argentina, the gold medalists in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.
Brazilian football has continued its decline since Copa America 2022, where it lost the final at home to Argentina with an unanswered goal, before Messi and his teammates repeated that in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, in which Brazil ranks fifth, 8 points behind leaders Argentina, with one of the worst results it has achieved. The Samba team in these competitions.
Brazil, which won medals in the last four Olympics, has not missed the Games since 2004, and this latest failure is considered a major disappointment, after its team only needed a draw to ensure its presence in the Olympic tournament.
Share Messi
But it is Argentina that will have the opportunity to revive the beautiful memories of the gold medals of 2004, with striker Carlos Tevez and coach Marcelo Bielsa, and 2008 with the legend Lionel Messi.
The Argentine national team can benefit from the efforts of its historic star, Messi, as the Olympic teams can field three veteran players from the first team. Which is what coach Mascherano hoped.
The latter said this last September. He wants to summon Messi to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics, alongside veteran star Di Maria, currently a player for the Portuguese team Benfica.
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