The matches are scheduled for March 23 and 28, at the Monumental and Santiago del Estero, respectively. The former River and Banfield had not been called up to the National Team since October 2020.
prize. It was Gio Simeone because of the good season he is having in the Italian league with Napoli, which he comfortably leads after 25 rounds (he leads the shooting guard, Inter, by 15 points). The Argentine striker accumulates 8 goals.
Napoli striker Giovanni Simeone was summoned by coach Lionel Scaloni to the Argentine National Team to play the friendlies in March against Paraná and Curaçao, in which the winning of the Qatar 2022 World Cup title will be celebrated. He had already confirmed the list of 35 called for the aforementioned matches that will be played on March 23 and 28, now the attacker from the Italian team that leads Serie A will join.
Simeone, who was not called up for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, was always considered by the National Team’s coaching staff and, in fact, was included in the pre-selection, although he did not make it to the World Cup afterwards. Even after the casualties due to injuries to Nicolás González and Joaquín Correa, added to the income of Ángel Correa and Thiago Almada, the “Cholito” was left on the emergency list before a possible new casualty.
To his credit, the oldest of Simeone’s sons records a game as a substitute with Argentina for the Qualifiers and several minutes in five friendly matches -in the only one in which he started, against Guatemala in 2018, he scored a goal-. At 27, the former River and Banfield player has a long history in Italian football: Genoa, Fiorentina, Cagliari, Hellas Verona and Napoli, where he has been a substitute for Nigerian Victor Osimhen, top scorer with 19 goals.
Simeone, who has not been called up to the National Team since October 2020, has recorded eight goals so far this season, counting matches for Serie A, the Champions League and the Italian Cup.
double date
The first friendly will be against Panama on Thursday, March 23 at the Monumental stadium and five days later, on Tuesday the 28th, the squad will travel to Santiago del Estero to face Curacao at the Madre de Ciudades Stadium in that province.
The following is the list of summoned for the friendlies: Goalkeepers: Franco Armani (River), Gerónimo Rulli (Ajax) and Emiliano Martínez (Aston Villa).
Defenders: Juan Foyth (Villarreal), Gonzalo Montiel (Sevilla), Nahuel Molina (Atletico Madrid), Nehuén Pérez (Udinese), Germán Pezzella (Betis), Cristian Romero (Tottenham), Nicolás Otamendi (Benfica), Lisandro Martínez (Manchester) United), Nicolás Tagliafico (Olympique Lyon), Marcos Acuña (Sevilla) and Lautaro Blanco (Elche).
Midfielders: Leandro Paredes (Juventus), Guido Rodríguez (Betis), Enzo Fernández (Chelsea), Maximiliano Perrone (Manchester City), Exequiel Palacios (Bayer Leverkusen), Rodrigo De Paul (Atletico Madrid), Facundo Buonanotte (Brighton), Thiago Almada (Atlanta United), Giovani Lo Celso (Villarreal), Alexis Mac Allister (Brighton), Ángel Di María (Juventus), Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid), Emiliano Buendía (Aston Villa) and Valentín Carboni (Inter).
Forwards: Lionel Messi (PSG), Paulo Dybala (Roma), Lautaro Martínez (Inter), Julián Álvarez (Manchester City), Alejandro Garnacho (Manchester United), Nicolás González (Fiorentina), Alejandro Gómez (Sevilla) and Giovanni Simeone (Napoli) ).
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