Nahuel Lanzillotta
08/29/2021 8:33 PM
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 08/29/2021 8:37 PM
Lionel Scaloni waits for all his boys to face the
triple date
of the South American Qualifiers that has the Argentine National Team second behind Brazil. The DT from Pujatense breathes easy: an express ruling from the TAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport, for its acronym in English) rejected LaLiga de España's request to annul the FIFA decision that extended the international window for two days to include one more match for the suspended dates of March, precisely due to the refusal of the European leagues not to yield to their players.
“FIFA welcomes today's ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejecting the Spanish LaLiga's request to annul for two days FIFA's decision to extend the international window for the World Cup qualifiers by two days. FIFA World Cup in South America ”,
says a paragraph of the statement issued from Switzerland.
Thus, the clubs will have to release the men from the booties summoned to their different teams.
And this is a great relief for Scaloni and his coaching staff, who had 22 of their 30 mentioned affected.
Anyway, the trainer already had in advance the word of his directed to travel the same.
According to
Clarín
, the players from Argentina, as well as those from other South American countries,
had also defined to get on the plane and then abide by possible sanctions
, which now will not be applied before the FIFA protection.
Julián Alvarez is the other player who trained this Sunday with the Argentine National Team.
Photo: @Argentina
Which players would the National Team have lost? They were
the nine 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
eight who play for 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 (Inter). The
four from the Premier League
: Emiliano Martínez and Emiliano Buendía (Aston Villa), Giovani Lo Celso and Cristian Romero (Tottenham Hotspur). And Nicolás Otamendi (Benfica, Portugal).
All of them plus Lionel Messi, Leandro Paredes and Ángel Di María, from Paris Saint-Germain, from France;
Lisandro Martínez and Nicolás Tagliafico (Ajax, Netherlands);
and Exequiel Palacios (Bayern Leverkusen, Germany) will fly and arrive in Caracas on Monday to join Franco Armani and Julián Alvarez, who departed from Buenos Aires on Saturday with Scaloni and the rest of the delegation led by Claudio Tapia, president of the AFA .
Being
the only two
, River's men did some light work in the field and in the gym this Sunday.
Meanwhile, the rest were moving to Madrid to meet there and get on the charter of the Argentine Football Association.
The bulk of the group will be on this plane, while Messi, Paredes and Di María will do so on another private flight.
And speaking of private flights, given the refusal received by the highest sports court of FIFA, LaLiga de España issued
another statement
expressing its disagreement and requesting the Spanish Federation to postpone two matches on matchday 4: Sevilla-Barcelona and Villarreal -Alavés.
In addition, he informed that he will make
"charter flights available to the clubs for the movement of the affected players for their incorporation into the respective calls
.
"
What he seeks with this is to expedite the return of the protagonists to their respective teams.
Scaloni will debut as a champion of the Copa América.
Photo CARL DE SOUZA / AFP
The concrete thing is that Scaloni already plans the first commitment, which will be this Thursday against Venezuela at
9:00 p.m.
From the start, the coach has
two casualties due to suspensions
: Cristian Romero - admonished against Chile and Colombia - and Leandro Paredes - Ecuador and Colombia.
Germán Pezzella is the one who would get into the defense next to Nicolás Otamendi, while Guido Rodríguez (of the great Copa América), would be in the center circle.
Will Messi start?
It is the big question to answer.
It is known that the captain always wants to be there, but he just added 30 minutes yesterday in France and it is not ruled out that he will wait on the bench to be able to be against Brazil on Sunday and against Bolivia on Tuesday at the Monumental.
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