08/28/2021 13:06
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 08/28/2021 1:06 PM
Lionel Scaloni and his coaching staff plus Franco Armani and Julián Álvarez, the River players, the only players called up from local football, arrived in Caracas this Saturday for Thursday's game against Venezuela for the South American Qualifiers.
The Argentine National Team, which will play again after the conquest of the Copa América, waits for the players in the European leagues, who expressed their willingness not to give in to the footballers because they consider South America as a region of "high risk" of contagion of coronavirus.
The triple date was what ended up annoying European clubs, which in some countries -in addition- have restrictions for those who enter from "red zones" and
must carry out 10 days of quarantine
.
This is the case of England, which does not want to lose its South American footballers because they would have to be isolated and they would lose them for the first date of the Champions League, which will be played between September 14 and 15.
# SelecciónMayor The @Argentina Delegation is already in the city of #Caracas with a view to next Thursday's game against @SeleVinotinto.
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- Argentina National Team 🇦🇷 (@Argentina) August 28, 2021
The English Premier League was the first to decide not to give up its players to the national teams, despite going against what FIFA imposes.
While LaLiga of Spain, Serie A of Italy and Primeira Liga of Portugal expressed their support to the clubs that do not want to give up to the players.
However, as it transpired, South American footballers would travel the same.
Led by Lionel Messi - France's Ligue 1 does not participate in the blockade - the players are united and pressuring to travel to play with their national teams.
The Rosario is in contact at PSG with
Marquinhos and Neymar
, leaders of the Brazilian team;
but also with
Luis Suárez and Edinson Cavani
, from Uruguay;
and
Arturo Vidal
, from Chile;
the main South American teams.
The players would be willing to ignore the imposition of the main leagues and would travel the same to play the three qualifying games, which cannot be postponed since the calendar -tight- has no more "windows" towards the World Cup in Qatar 2022, which is will play in December next year.
Argentine players
Scaloni is already in Venezuela.
(Photo by CARL DE SOUZA / AFP)
The Argentine team has in doubt 22 of the players that Scaloni put on the original list for the games against Venezuela and Brazil, visitors and against Bolivia at the Monumental.
The 9 who play in Spain:
Gerónimo Rulli and Juan Foyth (Villarreal), Gonzalo Montiel, Alejandro Gómez and Marcos Acuña (Seville), Germán Pezzella and Guido Rodríguez (Betis), Rodrigo De Paul and Angel Correa (Atlético de Madrid).
The 8 who play in Calcio:
Juan Musso (Atalanta), Nahuel Molina (Udinese), Lucas Martínez Quarta and Nicolás González (Fiorentina), Nicolás Domínguez (Bologna), Lautaro Martínez (Inter), Paulo Dybala (Juventus) and Joaquín Correa (Lazio).
The 4 of the Premier:
Emiliano Martínez and Emiliano Buendía (Aston Villa), Giovani Lo Celso and Cristian Romero (Tottenham Hotspur).
And Nicolás Otamendi (Benfica)
the only one of those summoned who is in Portugal.
Only 6 of those who play abroad have no restrictions: Lionel Messi, Leandro Paredes and Ángel Di María, from Paris Saint Germain, from France;
Lisandro Martínez and Nicolás Tagliafico (Ajax, The Netherlands);
and Exequiel Palacios (Bayern Leverkusen, Germany).
# SelecciónMayor List of summoned 📝 by @lioscaloni for the next three matches of @Argentina 🇦🇷 in the # EliminatoriasQatar2022.
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- Argentina National Team 🇦🇷 (@Argentina) August 23, 2021
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