The modest selection of curacaopartner of the Argentine National Team within the framework of the festivities that will take place tomorrow in Santiago del Estero for obtaining the Qatar World Cupis valued at 14.12 million dollars, a little less than the striker’s pass Thiago Almadaone of the youngsters of the future in the world champion Argentine team.
The comparison, based on the data of the specialized site transfer marktstrongly reflects the enormous difference that exists with the Central American team, located today ranked 86 in the FIFA ranking.
Curaçao, a tiny island of 444 square kilometers and 160,000 inhabitants, achieved its autonomy from the Netherlands Antilles in 2010 but without breaking with the Kingdom of the Netherlandsto whom he owes all his football development.
All of their selected players are born in the European nation as well as their coach Remko Bicentini55 years old, responsible for the most important sporting moments in the history of the Caribbean country.
DT is currently in his second term in the national team after a four-year process (2016-2020) that reported the greatest achievement in local football: the Caribbean Cup 2017.
At the beginning of the Curaçao Football Federation (FFK), the team had an Argentine coach, from Mendoza Manuel Bilches (2011-2012), former striker in Hurricane Las Heras, Independiente Rivadavia and Deportivo Goudge.
Internationally renowned surnames also passed through the bank: the Dutch Guus Hiddink (2020-2021), former coach of Real Madrid, Chelsea and twice from the Netherlands, and his compatriot Patrick Kluivert, former Barcelona (122 goals in 257 games), who left the club months before Lionel Messi’s debut.
In his current squad, only two footballers exceed a million dollars in their price. It’s about the brothers Leandro and Juninho Bacunanatives of the city of Groningen.
The first of them is the eldest (31 years old), footballer of the watford of the English second division and shares with his teammate Rangelo Janga the merit of being the top scorer for the team (14 goals).
Juninho (25), the team’s most valued player (4.5 million) plays for Birmingham, also in the English Championship.
The attendance record corresponds to the right back and captain Cuckoo Martina (55 games), who plays for Breda in the Dutch second category.
Curaçao was eliminated hand in hand by Panama in the second round of the Preliminaries of the Concacaf for the World Cup in Qatar. Before, they had successfully passed through the initial phase after winning the group with Guatemala, Cuba, Saint Vincent and the Grenadine and the British Virgin Islands.
Last weekend they lost to Canada (2-0) in the League of Nations in their synthetic grass stadium with a capacity for 15,000 people, which is located in the capital willemstad.
Source: Ambito
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