Argentina U20 coach Javier Macherano has announced his first list of players for training.
Javier Mascherano has named 23 players for training next Tuesday as he gets his first managerial job. Mascherano replaces Fernando Batista as coach of the Argentina U20 team after Batista joined Jose Pekerman’s coaching staff with Venezuela. Here are the names:
Valentino Quintero (Rosario Central)
Gonzalo Siri (Argentinos Juniors)
Julian Kadijevic (Comunicaciones)
Ramiro Di Luciano (Banfield)
Ulises Ciccioli (Rosario Central)
Santiago Moya (Huracan)
Brian Aguilar (Lanus)
Valentin Gomez (Velez Sarsfield)
Lucas Monzon (River Plate)
Valentin Barco (Boca Juniors)
Felipe Salomoni (River Plate)
Nicolas Palavecino (Estudiantes de la Plata)
Facundo Buonanotte (Rosario Central)
Maximiliano Gonzalez (Lanus)
Ignacio Miramon (Gimnasia)
Lucas Roman (Ferro)
Agustin Rodriguez (Lanus)
Gonzalo Alvez (Talleres)
Jose Herrera (Argentinos Juniors)
Alejo Veliz (Rosario Central)
Julian Romero (Independiente)
Lucas Besozzi (Lanus)
Benjamin Dominguez (Gimnasia)
All the best Masche . Wanting to see him come up as our next great coach.
The next Conembol Youth Championship & Fifa U20 WC is happening in 2023. So ideally from age eligibility players born after 1 Jan 2003 should qualify. Apart from Valentin Barco who is already in this list , there should be a interesting names like Luka Romero, Matias Soule, Dario Sarmiento who will qualify . Since 2021 tournaments got cancelled for U20 , decent chance that they may relax the age criteria by 1 more year & then players born in 2002 like Facundo Farias,Alan Velasco, Matias Palacios, Guiliano Simeone,Exequiel Zeballos, Bruno Amione, Cristian Medina , Santiago Simon, Carlos Alcaraz may get a shot. Interesting times ahead with Masche
I’m very interested about velentin barco…he is very promising and NT need this type of player. He’s good left back and hope between 2-3 years he will promote himself in senior team.
@Gonzalo, watched the youth team of Rosario Central recently? Any comments?