The payroll, led by the captain, Leo Messiwill have among its components in this first opportunity some players who are recovering from severe injuries, such as the cases of Paulo Dybala, goalkeeper Juan Musso and defender Juan Foyth.
Less serious is Ángel Di María’s laceration, which will be recovered by the end of this month.
And from Friday the coach will sharpen the pencil to determine the final 26, although he has already warned that he will have “32 or 33” under his orbit, considering the urgency of the schedule prior to the European Club World Cup and the immediacy between the completions of the activities of the respective leagues and the start of the World Cup.
For example, the Premier League will have on November 13, seven days before the start of the World Cup and nine before the Argentine debut against Saudi Arabia, a final game that will involve two players from the National Team: goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez (Aston Villa) and midfielder Alexis MacAllister (Brighton & Hove).
Given this panorama, it was that in the last hours Scaloni suggested to his managers “not to give machine” with the risk of injuring himself a few days before the World Cupbut to behave in matches “as naturally as possible”.
And the controversy over the advantages and disadvantages of playing this World Cup on the unusual year-end date was immediately opened up between the harms of playing the competition as usual in June, with the seasons just finished, or as now, in the middle from the same.
Of the World Cups that are played in June, it was said that the players arrived worn out after a strenuous season, while of this one it was ventured that they will be “with fresher legs” because they will have played half the games then.
Of course, the latter has its negative counterpart, since after the change of calendars and to arrive on time for the World Cup, both the leagues and the international competitions tightened their programming and then the soccer players have a capital over-demand by having to play almost permanently during the week and weekends.
And this, the almost complete lack of rest, ends up being more detrimental then. The remedy is worse than the disease, since this uninterrupted activity enables the risk of causing more injuries, especially muscular ones.
And if to this is added that the selected ones will not have time to prepare, because in all cases their final 26 members will be meeting just one week before the start of the World Cup, that the start of the competition brings some unpleasant surprises is to the around the corner.
In fact, in addition, this World Cup will have the particularity that it will last for less than a month (28 days, between November 20 and December 18) and for this, for example, the group stage will be resolved in just one week, a period in which the three games that correspond to each of them will be played.
For example, Argentina will debut on Tuesday, November 22 against Saudi Arabia, will play again on Saturday 26 with Mexico and will close on Wednesday 30 against Poland.
Given this panorama, Scaloni will take those forecasts of having “32 or 33” footballers at hand, because his doubts about the 26 that he will have to formally present on November 14 are minimal.
And one of those places is in the three goalkeepers that he will carry, since Emiliano Martínez and Gerónimo Rulli have won two places, while Franco Armani and Juan Musso, who is recovering from a jaw fracture, will be the third.
If Armani does not go, it will be the first time in a World Cup that there will be no local players on the Argentine National Team squad.
But even going, it will be the first time that there will be no outfield players who play in the Argentine championship, and it will be the opportunity in which fewer local clubs will attend, since the previous one with fewer soccer players from the native competition dates of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, when coach Marcelo Bielsa only took River Plate players Ariel Ortega and Claudio Husaín.
For now now, next Friday, the 32 World Cup participants will have to deliver the rosters of 35 players that on November 14 will be reduced to 26 (there would be three goalkeepers, nine defenders, seven midfielders and seven forwards), although by then the The Argentine team will be installed in Abu Dhabi, so that final list will be known in advance.
It is that on Sunday the 13th the national team will offer an open training session in the capital of the United Arab Emirates and on Wednesday the 16th they will play a friendly against the local team led by the Argentine Rodolfo Arruabarrena.
The list of 35 summoned will reach FIFA from each association and the clubs will be informed from there. The public disclosure of it will be at the discretion of the AFA and Scaloni himself, but in principle those cited would be the following:
Archers: Emiliano Martínez (Aston Villa), Franco Armani (River), Juan Musso (Atalanta) and Gerónimo Rulli (Villarreal).
Defenders: Gonzalo Montiel (Seville), Nahuel Molina (Atlético de Madrid), Juan Foyth (Villarreal), Germán Pezzella (Betis), Nehuén Pérez (Udinese), Cristian Romero (Tottenham), Nicolás Otamendi (Benfica), Lisandro Martínez (Manchester United) , Marcos Senesi (Bournemouth), Nicolás Tagliafico (Olympique Lyon), Marcos Acuña (Seville) and Lucas Martínez Quarta (Fiorentina).
Frills: Guido Rodríguez (Betis), Alexis Mac Allister (Brighton), Rodrigo De Paul (Atlético de Madrid), Exequiel Palacios (Bayer Leverkusen), Enzo Fernández (Benfica), Giovani Lo Celso (Tottenham), Alejandro Gómez (Sevilla), Ángel Di María (Juventus), Leandro Paredes (Juventus), Thiago Almada (Atlanta United) and Nicolás Domínguez (Bologna).
Forwards: Lionel Messi (PSG), Lautaro Martínez (Inter), Paulo Dybala (Roma), Julián Álvarez (Manchester City), Joaquín Correa (Inter), Nicolás González (Fiorentina), Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) and Giovanni Simeone (Napoli) .
Source: Ambito
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