The team of mascherano will unleash one “second opportunity” after deletion in South American of Colombia (finished seventh out of ten teams) that led to the resignation of the former captain of the Argentine national team.
The management of the president of the AFA, Claudio Tapiain an act of skilful political reflection, plus the interest of conmebolwith a view to the candidacy for the World Cup 2030 together with Uruguay, Chile and Paraguaytipped the scales for the emergency designation.
The continuity of mascherano also had the incidence of lionel scaloniwhose talk was key to reversing the position of the formerRiver and Barcelona from Spain.
On the move, mascherano could not count on Alexander Garnacho (Manchester United) Facundo Buonanotte (Brighton and Hove) and Nicholas Paz (Real Madrid), who were not transferred by their clubs, protected by the decision of the FIFA which from this edition removed the character of “mandatory” to the transfer of players.
The preparation of Argentina occurred in the Lionel Andrés Messi estate of Ezeiza with friendlies before Dominican Republic and Japan. The 4-0 and 2-1 wins, respectively, gave a glimpse of the starting base for the premiere in Santiago del Estero.
Beyond the absence of three “Europibes”, the Argentina will have outstanding footballers like Maximo Perrone (Manchester City), Valentin Carboni (Inter), luka romero (Lazio), matias soule (Juventus) and matthew tanlongo (Sporting Lisbon).
Young European values will be added Valentine Boat (Mouth), Augustine Giay (San Lorenzo), Juan Gauto (Hurricane), Ignacio Master Puch (Atletico Tucumán) and Alejo Veliz (Central Rosario), among others.
Argentina It will also have the plus of the public. He Mother of Cities of Santiago del Estero It will look complete and will be one more motivation for a team that will seek to reverse what happened in Colombia.
This is the second world championship that has been organized in the country since 2001, when the team led by Jose Pekermanwith Javier Saviola in the role of goalscorer and figure, he became champion in the Jose Amalfitani Stadium of Velez.
The rival will be uzbekistanclassified as champion of Asiathat in their three friendly matches prior to the world won one (3-0 vs. Dominican Republic) and lost two (4-1 vs. Brazil and 2-0 vs. Uruguay).
One of the figures of the Asian team is Umarali Rakhmonalievwho militates in the ruby kazan of Russia.
Those led by Ravshan Khaydarov they faced the Argentina in a friendly on September 8, 2022 with a 2-0 defeat and they will face their fifth World Cup participation.
His best results were the quarterfinals in the editions of Türkiye 2013 and New Zealand 2015.
Argentinathe top winner of the competition with six titles out of 17 participations, is the head of group A and will also face Guatemala May 23 at 6:00 p.m. Santiago del Esteroand then move to San Juan to close the first phase with New Zealandon Friday the 26th at the same time.
The best two from each of the six groups will qualify for the round of 16 along with the four best third-placed.
If the team of mascherano ranks first, will play on May 31 at San Juan against one of the third parties; if it advances it will return Santiago del Estero to play the quarterfinals on June 4; and the semifinals, on June 8, and the final on June 11 will be at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium of the silver.
What time do Argentina vs Uzbekistan play?
Start time: 18.
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formations
Argentina: Federico Gomes Gerth; Agustín Giay, Lautaro Di Lollo, Valentín Gómez and Valentín Barco; Máximo Perrone, Valentín Carboni and Mateo Tanlongo; Matías Soulé, Alejo Véliz and Juan Gauto. DT: Javier Mascherano.
Uzbekistan: Otabek Boymurodov; Diyorbek Ortikboev, Abdukodir Khusanov and Jakhongir Urozov; Zafarmurod Abdurahmatov, Bekhruz Askarov, Sherzod Esanov and Makhmud Makhamadzhonov; Umarali Rahmonaliyev, Abbosbek Fayzullayev, and Pulatkhuzha Kholdorkhonov. DT: Ravshan Khaydarov.
Stadium: Mother of Cities (Santiago del Estero)
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