Argentine defender Daniel “Cata” DIAZ has retired.
The 39 year old defender has called an end to his football career, per a statement from his current club Fuenlabrada. He played over 150 matches for Getafe and well over a 100 for Boca Juniors where he won numerous titles including a Copa Libertadores.
With the Argentina team, DIAZ was capped 12 times and scored once, a vital goal in a 1-0 win against Colombia during the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
Best of luck to Cata DIAZ.
Argentina lost 1-0 to Brazil in the Sudamericano and finished in second spot.
Despite the loss, the Argentina U20 team was already secured of a position at both the U20 FIFA World Cup as well as the Pan American games. Here are the final standings with Ecuador winning the Sudamericano.
Ecuador, 10 points
Argentina, 9 points
Uruguay, 8 points
Colombia, 5 points
Brazil, 5 points
Venezuela, 4 points
Ecuador, Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia all qualified for the U20 FIFA World Cup.
For the Pan American games, Ecuador, Argentina, Uruguay and hosts Peru are all qualified.
Sergio AGUERO scored a hattrick in Manchester City’s 6-0 win against Chelsea.
In a Premier League title race that is extremely close, Manchester City were looking to stay close to Liverpool in the standings. AGUERO received a golden opportunity to extend City’s 1-0 advantage against Chelsea but from close range, missed.
AGUERO would go on and redeem himself with a goal of the season candidate. With a few Chelsea players surrounding him, Manchester City’s all time leading scorer let out a thunderous right footed shot which went into the top corner.
Pep GUARDIOLA’s men would get one more before half time as AGUERO would pounce off a Chelsea mistake to score from close range.
The third for AGUERO would come in the second half through a penalty kick. With that hat hatrick, AGUERO has now rqualled Alan SBEARER’s record of 11 Premier League hat tricks.
🍾 Man of the Match, @ManCity’s Sergio Aguero
64 mins played – 6 shots
Joint record 11th PL hat-trick
15th hat-trick for the club, 3rd this season
160 league goals, new club record pic.twitter.com/mogafuYZhL— Sky Sports Statto (@SkySportsStatto) February 10, 2019
Dario BENEDETTO is rumored to get called-up to the Argentina team while Sergio AGUERO would not make the cut.
Lionel SCALONI has big decisions to make in regards to his Argentina selections. March’s friendly matches against Morocco and Venezuela will likely be the last matches prior to the announcement of the Copa America squad.
Along with the highly anticipated return of captain Lionel MESSI, Boca forward Dario BENEDETTO is expected to get called-up. Per a report by Toda Pasion, Dario BENEDETTO would make the team in March as a back-up to Inter captain Mauro ICARDI.
However, should BENEDETTO be picked, this would likely close the door for Sergio AGUERO as the Manchester City forward would miss the Copa America.
Lautaro MARTINEZ scored the winner for Inter in their 1-0 win against Parma.
A less than stellar match for Inter but Lautaro MARTINEZ came on as a substitute and scored to win the match. The former Racing man came on and just two minutes later, he scored the winner.
⏱77' Comes on
⏱79' Scores the winner🇦🇷🔥 #Lautaro the difference-maker 🐂👏#ParmaInter #ForzaInter 🖤💙 pic.twitter.com/Dd9gsTLrVv
— Inter (@Inter_en) February 9, 2019
