Lionel Scaloni made a last-minute call to the National Team for the double knockout date

Lionel scaloni communicated last Wednesday the list of 34 footballers summoned to the Argentina national team ahead of the double date of the South American Qualifiers in November, with Uruguay and Brazil as opponents. However, the coach decided to add a last minute summons to the payroll. It’s about an old acquaintance: Alejandro Gomez, 33-year-old midfielder, belonging to Sevilla.

“# SelecciónMayor The Seville footballer, Alejandro Gómez, joins the call for the double date of November,” reported the official Twitter account of the Albiceleste. Why was Papu not part of the primitive list, when it had already become a stable part of the American champion squad, which seeks to secure its place in the Qatar World Cup 2022? The man emerged from Arsenal de Sarandí dragged a muscle injury, which kept him out of action for two weeks with his club’s jacket.

In fact, last Tuesday, he watched from the stands of the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán stadium the defeat of his team against Lille, for the Champions League. But he recovered, to the point that was summoned to the bench of substitutes for the classic of this Sunday against Betis, in which his compatriots Gonzalo Montiel, Marcos Acuña, Lucas Ocampos and Erik Lamela were chosen as starters.

The Albiceleste will face the Rio de la Plata classic on Friday, November 12, by the thirteenth date, on the Champion of the Century from Peñarol Montevideo, starting at twenty, and the following Tuesday 16 will receive the five-time world champion at the Del Bicentenario stadium in San Juan, from 8.30 pm.

Scaloni made a heterodox summons, since in addition to the base of the squad that won the last continental competition, he summoned several promises of Argentine football, such as Enzo Fernández and Santiago Simón (River), Thiago Almada (Vélez), Exequiel Zeballos and Cristian Medina (Boca), Gastón Ávila (Rosario Central), Matías Soulé (Juventus, is part of the professional team) and Federico Gomes Gerth (Tigre, goalkeeper , aged 17).

The reason? “He wants to see them up close, train them,” they remarked from the Ezeiza property. The quest is for them to become familiar with the shirt, to get blanked out, at least in practice. Many of them have already passed through the hands of Scaloni (when he directed the L’Alcudia tournament) or Pablo Aimar in the youth teams. And the idea is that they train with the figures and help them to empower themselves, as happened with Julian Alvarez.

Well, the youths were joined by an experienced one, who offers variants to the Scaloni board: Papu Gómez.

ALL QUOTED BY SCALONI

Archers: Franco Armani, Emiliano Martínez, Juan Musso and Franco Gomes Gerth.

Defenders: Nahuel Molina, Gonzalo Montiel, Cristian Romero, Germán Pezzella, Nicolás Otamendi, Lucas Martínez Quarta, Nicolás Tagliafico, Marcos Acuña, Lisandro Martínez and Gastón Ávila.

Midfielders: Leandro Paredes, Guido Rodríguez, Enzo Fernández, Rodrigo De Paul, Exequiel Palacios, Giovani Lo Celso, Nicolás Domínguez, Ángel Di María, Thiago Almada, Santiago Simón, Cristian Medina, Matías Soulé, Alejandro Gómez.

Forwards: Lionel Messi, Ángel Correa, Lautaro Martínez, Paulo Dybala, Julián Álvarez, Nicolás González, Joaquín Correa and Exequiel Zeballos.

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