Global Courant 2023-04-27 01:57:44
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The DT of the selected one traveled to meet with leaders of United and Brighton, who were inflexible. The same as Real Madrid. But there is still hope.
Since he said “yes” to reverse his decision to step aside after the frustration of the South American and return to take charge of the Under 20 National Team that will play the World Cup of the category that will be played in the country from May 20 to June 11, Javier Mascherano got down to work to shape the team.
He rearmed part of the coaching staff (added Leandro Stillitano) and diagrammed the preselection of 37 summoned that was informed by AFA. And now he is in Europe to try to unblock in person the situation of the three youth players to whom their respective clubs do not want to give up: Alejandro Garnacho (Manchester United), Facundo Buonanotte (Brighton) and Nicolás Paz (Real Madrid).
FIFA did not include the Under 20 World Cup in its calendar and that is why the institutions are not obliged to let their players go. At the local level, the coach will not have -or should not have- problems since the Argentine clubs signed an agreement in the Assembly last December in which they promised to give their footballers to the National Team, Senior and youth teams in their different categories. .
There is future. Alejandro Garnacho, with the shirt of the Argentine National Team.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the first responses were mostly positive. This competition will begin towards the end of the season and several teams would not have major objections in principle to give permission to their boys.
Román Vega (Barcelona), Franco Carboni (Monza), Valentín Carboni (Inter), Matías Soulé (Juventus), Máximo Perrone (Manchester City), Mateo Tanlongo (Sporting Lisbon) and Luka Romero (Lazio) could then be taken into account by Masche in case of being chosen in the final cut. The same for Renzo Malanca, from Huachipato in Chile, and Julián Aude, from the Los Angeles Galaxy in the United States.
Facundo Good night. (Reuters)
However, Garnacho, Buonanotte and Paz cannot yet say the same and the outlook is very complicated for them. In any case, the last word has not been said and that is why Mascherano, accompanied by the physical trainer Pablo Blanco, took a plane to go to the Old Continent and deal with these cases personally.
As Clarín found out, the albiceleste DT already held meetings with the two English clubs and found two refusals. In the next few hours he has in his folder a chat with Madrid, who has already warned that he does not want to let Paz go either, who plays for Real Madrid Castilla, since he considers it important to go for promotion to the Second Division.
If these knots cannot be untied, the last card is for the players themselves to raise with their coaches the desire to be part of the National Team during the World Cup. None of them have spoken inside their clubs yet, but that could happen this weekend.
Javier Mascherano, coach of the Sub 20. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Garnacho is well regarded at United, who are in Champions League positions and have the FA Cup final ahead of them with Manchester City. Paz has just come off the bench last weekend at Real Madrid Castilla, which lost 3-0 to Unionistas de Salamanca. And Buonanotte scored a goal in Brighton’s 3-1 loss to Nottingham Forest.
In the Argentine coaching staff they know that the boys want to put on their country’s shirt to represent it in the maximum event, which will also be in their own territory. With this in mind, it will be seen if both Manchester United and Brighton and Real Madrid listen to the request of their footballers or if they remain in their rigid positions of not giving them up.
