The goalkeeper
Emiliano
Dibu
Martínez
, one of the heroes in the conquest of the
World Cup in Qatar
, arrived this Monday morning at the Ezeiza international airport to join the Argentine team that will play friendlies in the country against Panama and Curaçao.
Dibu
Martínez
arrived accompanied by his teammate at English Aston Villa, the midfielder
Emiliano Buendía
, also called up by coach Lionel Scaloni for the first commitments after the consecration in the Middle East, on December 18. Both players performed on Saturday at the a win over Bournemouth (3-0), which was decorated with a goal from the midfielder from Mar del Plata.
After arriving on a flight from Amsterdam, the players boarded an AFA transport to go to the Julio Humberto Grondona stadium, where the concentration of the selected world champion will begin today.
With Martínez and Buendía
there are already six players from the national team that have arrived in Argentina
since Enzo Fernández, Nicolás Tagliafico, Nicolás Otamendi and Rodrigo De Paul did so on Sunday.
During the day the squad will be completed, most of which will disembark on a charter flight from Madrid.
Among all the arrivals, the captain of the team, Ballon d'Or in Qatar 2022 and winner of the last FIFA The Best award, Lionel Messi, who on Sunday afternoon participated in the defeat of Paris Saint-Germain against Rennes by Ligue is expected. 1, in whose preview he was whistled by a sector of the fans.
The first training session for the National Team is scheduled for this afternoon at 5:00
p.m.
And Scaloni will give a press conference this Tuesday at 3:30 p.m., prior to a new practice.
The match with Panama will be played on Thursday from 8:30 p.m. at the Monumental stadium with seats sold out, after the fervor registered last Thursday in the sales system to which more than two million users entered in search of some of the 63,000 tickets available. provision.
Another 20,000, it is estimated, were reserved for protocol income and commercial commitments.
The second commitment of the
Scaloneta
will be on Tuesday the 28th against Curacao at the Estadio Único Madre de Ciudades in Santiago del Estero, which expanded its capacity from 30,000 to 42,000 locations with the removal of seats in different sectors.
Tickets for that presentation have not yet been released.
Argentina will face the two friendlies with a squad of 34 players, after Alejandro Gómez
(Sevilla) and
Alejandro Garnacho
(Manchester United)
were absent due to injury .
Papu
will be the only one of the world champions that will not be present at the festivities for not receiving authorization from his club in the middle of the recovery stage of an operation on his left foot that was carried out on February 10
.
The summoned
Goalkeepers:
Emiliano Martínez (Aston Villa), Gerónimo Rulli (Villarreal) and Franco Armani (River).
Defenders:
Nahuel Molina (Atletico Madrid), Gonzalo Montiel (Sevilla), Cristian Romero (Tottenham), Germán Pezzella (Betis), Nicolás Otamendi (Benfica), Lisandro Martínez (Manchester United), Marcos Acuña (Sevilla), Juan Foyth ( Villarreal), Lautaro Blanco (Elche), Nehuén Pérez (Udinese) and Nicolás Tagliafico (Olympique de Lyon).
Midfielders:
Rodrigo De Paul (Atletico Madrid), Leandro Paredes (Juventus), Alexis Mac Allister (Brighton), Guido Rodríguez (Betis), Exequiel Palacios (Bayer Leverkusen), Thiago Almada (Atlanta United), Máximo Perrone (Manchester City) , Facundo Buonanotte (Brighton), Giovani Lo Celso (Villarreal), Emiliano Buendía (Aston Villa), Valentín Carboni (Inter) and Enzo Fernández (Chelsea).
Forwards:
Ángel Di María (Juventus), Lautaro Martínez (Inter), Julián Álvarez (Manchester City), Paulo Dybala (Roma), Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid), Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain), Nicolás González (Fiorentina) and Giovanni Simeone (Napoli).
Source: Telam
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