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Lionel Messi donates €1 million to Argentina, Spain hospital centers to fight coronavirus

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Lionel Messi has donated €1 million to two different hospitals to help fight the coronavirus.

Messi’s donations will be split between two different medical centers. Per a report by ESPM, one part of his donation will go to a medical center in his home town of Rosario in Argentina. The other part of the donation will go to a hospital clinic in Barcelona.

Rodrigo De Paul: “When I’m with Messi, I’d live moments I wouldn’t believe”

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Rodrigo De Paul is in Italy with the entire world on lock down but he did give an interview with PH Podemos Hablar of Telefe.

The Argentina and Udinese midfielder spoke about Lionel Messi and shared some stories about being with the Argentina captain. Here’s what he had to say:

“When I’m next to him, I’d live moments I’d live moments I wouldn’t believe.

“When we would be together with the Argentina national team in training camp, a few nights he would be with Kun (Sergio Aguero) and we would go to their room. We would be six people playing truco and drinking mate. Then would come in someone from the staff with 60 shirts for Leo to sign: One for the president of the country where we were staying, one for the president’s son… The pilot of the plane would wake him up to sign something.”

De Paul added saying:

“It’s very difficult being him and he’s always available to speak with people.

“With Leo, we exchanged two shirts while playing in Spain. For this call-up, I would going to bring him something to sign but the matches are suspended. I’m confident in asking him but I don’t want to bother him either.”

Argentina rumored preliminary list of 50 for Olympics, Lautaro Martinez included

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With the Olympics postponed until next year, Argentina Olympic coach Fernando Batista was set to release a preliminary list of 50 players.

However, that list will now change. As we reported earlier, the IOC have confirmed the postponement of the games until no further than next year. While a lot can happen between now and the time the Olympics take place, Ole have release a rumored list of what would have been preliminary players for the tournament.

Goalkeepers:
Facundo Cambeses (Banfield)
Juan Pablo Cozzani (Lanús)
Manuel Roffo (Boca)
Julián Pourtau (Estudiantes)
Joaquín Blázquez (Talleres)

Defenders:
Hernán De La Fuente (Vélez)
Marcelo Herrera (San Lorenzo)
Facundo Mura (Estudiantes)
Facundo Nadalín (Newell’s)
Alexandro Bernabei (Lanús)
Gonzalo Montiel (River)
Nehuén Pérez (Famalicao – Portugal)
Cristiano Romero (Genoa – Italy)
Leonardo Balerdi (Borussia Dortmund – Germany)
Nazareno Colombo (Estudiantes)
Leonel Mosevich (Nacional – Portugal)
Juan Foyth (Tottenham – England)
Facundo Medina (Talleres)
Marcos Senesi (Feyenoord – Netherlands)
Lisandro Martínez (Ajax – Netherlands)
Lautaro Valenti (Lanús)
Claudio Bravo (Banfield)
Francisco Ortega (Vélez)
Gonzalo Escobar (Colón)

Midfielders:
Nicolás Capaldo (Boca)
Nicolás Domínguez (Bologna – Italy)
Aníbal Moreno (Newell’s)
Matías Zaracho (Racing)
Exequiel Palacios (Bayer Leverkusen – Germany)
Fausto Vera (Argentinos)
Tomás Belmonte (Lanús)
Santiago Cáseres (América – Mexico)
Jerónimo Cacciabue (Newell’s)
Juan Brunetta (Godoy Cruz)
Santiago Ascacibar (Hertha Berlín – Germany)
Santiago Colombatto (St. Truiden – Belgium)
Alexis Mac Allister (Brighton – England)
Lucas Robertone (Vélez)
Fernando Valenzuela (Barracas Central)
Ezequiel Barco (Atlanta United – United States of America)

Forwards:
Nahuel Bustos (Talleres)
Nicolás González (Stuttgart – Germany)
Julián Álvarez (River)
Adolfo Gaich (San Lorenzo)
Valentín Castellanos (New York City – United States of America)
Lautaro Martínez (Inter – Italy)
Ezequiel Ponce (Spartak Moscú – Russia)
Thiago Almada (Vélez)
Matías Vargas (Espanyol – Barcelona)
Agustín Urzi (Banfield)

A problem with the Olympics being delayed is that 17 of those 50 players would be over the age of 23 and would not be allowed to participate. Unless a change of rule was done, here would be 17 of the 50 players who wouldn’t be allowed to take part:

Goalkeepers:
Facundo Cambeses (Banfield)

Defenders:
Hernán De La Fuente (Vélez)
Facundo Nadalín (Newell’s)
Gonzalo Montiel (River)
Leonel Mosevich (Nacional – Portugal)
Marcos Senesi (Feyenoord – Netherlands)
Claudio Bravo (Banfield)
Gonzalo Escobar (Colón)

Midfielders:
Santiago Cáseres (América – Mexico)
Juan Brunetta (Godoy Cruz)
Santiago Ascacibar (Hertha Berlín – Germany)
Santiago Colombatto (St. Truiden – Belgium)
Lucas Robertone (Vélez)
Fernando Valenzuela (Barracas Central)

Forwards:
Lautaro Martínez (Inter – Italy)
Ezequiel Ponce (Spartak Moscú – Russia)
Matías Vargas (Espanyol – Barcelona)

IOC confirms Olympic games postponed until next year

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The IOC have confirmed that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games will be postponed until next year.

With the world on complete shut down, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games will be postponed. The confirmation was made on Tuesday and the games will take place no later than next summer.

In addition to the 2020 Copa America being pushed back to next year, this would also mean that there would be two tournaments going on next summer.

South American World Cup qualifiers could start in September

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With the South American World Cup qualifiers postponed, we could have a tentative start date for it.

The entire world has been put on hold due to the pandemic but CONMEBOL is reportedly working to get the World Cup qualifiers started in September. Per a report by TyC Sports, CONMEBOL have spoken with FIFA and would like to start the qualifiers in September.

Initially, the qualifiers were supposed to start this month with the second list of fixtures beginning in September. Should the proposal go through, the qualifiers would start when the second round of fixtures were set to take place.

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