The Argentina U20 national team will play Mexico in the quarter finals at the U20 World Cup.
Diego Placente’s team won 4-0 against Nigeria in the Round of 16 at the U20 World Cup in Chile and will play Mexico on Saturday. For the first time since 2011, the Argentina U20 national team will play in a quarter final game at the tournament.
Argentina won 3-1 against Cuba in their opening match of the U20 World Cup. They followed that with a 4-1 win against Australia and a 1-0 win against Italy.
Álvaro Montoro will miss the rest of the U20 World Cup due to a shoulder injury.




I have been following comments and I find it surprising to see how ungrateful people can be. This coach has given has 4 major trophies in last few years and some people are busy calling him idiot only for a player selection. By all means criticize a team or a coach or a player and show dissapoinment but to show this level of anger and frustration and blaming a coach where he has not failed even once surprise me more than anything. I would have loved to see Soule and Giyay or one or two more new options but I have full faith and trust in this coach and his team. Some people just love criticizing for the sake of it and what baffles me is some people calling the coach just a lucky coach. I wished we would have got this lucky coach in the last 30 years before Scaloni came. They see the players day and day out they communicate and they see attitude so it is lot more than it meets our naked eyes. I am confident that good players if they keep performing will be called up and even make the world cup and even though I am sometime disappointed in some of the calls I fully trust the coach and the players we have. Atleast I owe that much to this remarkable coaching team.
Scaloni is an idiot. He’s ruining this Argentina team with nepotism. If Messi hadn’t performed at the World Cup, Scaloni would’ve been gone a long time ago. Why does he keep calling up average players like Acuña, Otamendi, Montiel, Balerdi, Paredes, and José López when we have better options than them?
he selected 4 goal keepers instead of Soule .It is really interesting ,Actually without messi ,Dibu and luck ,he is nothing. do you remember our first copa america ? His Goal Keeper first choice is Armani not Dibu .After world cup he never used Almada and let him play for u20 . I would say placente is far more better than him ,don’t just look at what he achieved but the whole process .
Delgado is the best player in this tournament from Argentina. He might be small, but he has all the tools — he’s quick, can dribble, tackle, and pass, and he stays calm under pressure. He’s like Argentina’s Kante.
most of them can represent Italy ,we had lost Retegui and probably Soule. Hopefully a new era begin after next world cup .We need a coach who really know the kid
No matter how far this team may go ,i believe our future may rely on most of them together with some Europe teenagers .Once again Placente is capable of building a good team ,using different tactics . Here is my comment
Maher carrizo : wonder kid ,di Maria type winger .far more better than simeone in future .Really up to my expectation since I followed him at Velez
Sarco : brilliant, Look like another powerful strong Alvarez
Delgado : new Banega just a bit short and physically weak but overall performance is good
Prestianni : New papu Gomez definitely better than montoro
Subiare : Still need to prove himself especially he is slow and physically weak but technically he is good .
Andino : Fast winger look like Nico Gonzalez
Tomas Perez : may be injured but the kid is top class DM
Gorosito : really surprise me with his performance
Barbi: Promisng despite one mistake before
Full backs: tall ,strong ,decent performance
Acuna: a bit disappointed, lack of improvement compared with u17
Montoro : disappointed
Pagano : Promising, skilful LB I prefer him rather than Soler
Soler : Not that good at defense ,average performance
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Conclusion : Maher Carrizo ,Sarco ,Tomas Perez can directly go to national team .Gorosito ,Pagano ,Andino ,Prestianni,Delgado may need a bit times . our full backs definitely can be sold to Europe . Soler and Montoro are the two need huge improvement