Walter SAMUEL, who recently joined Lionel SCALONI’s coaching staff, has already started working with the team.
Along with former Argentina team mates Diego PLACENTE and Pablo AIMAR, SAMUEL has joined the two assistants as well as SCALONI in working with the U20 team as they prepare for their friendly match against Uruguay on Wednesday.
As we reported a few days ago, SAMUEL has joined SCALONI’s coaching staff and will be there for the two friendly matches against Guatemala and Colombia in September.
Lionel SCALONI has announced his Argentina U20 team for the friendly match against Uruguay on Wednesday.
A total of 22 players have been called-up for the match on Wednesday, some of which took part in the COTIF tournament which was won by the Albiceleste. Here are the players:
Gaston AVILA (Rosario Central)
Francesco LO CELSO (Rosario Central)
Alan MARINELLI (Rosario Central)
Maxi LOVERA (Rosario Central)
Manuel ROFFO (Boca Juniors)
Agustin OBANDO (Boca Juniors)
Aaron MOLINAS (Boca Juniors)
Nazareno COLOMBO (Estudiantes de la Plata)
Andres AYALA (Estudiantes de la Plata)
Elias PEREYRA (San Lorenzo)
Adolfo GAICH (San Lorenzo)
Facundo MEDINA (Talleres de Cordoba)
Alvaro BARREAL (Velez Sarsfield)
Francisco ORTEGA (Velez Sarsfield)
Thiago ALMADA (Velez Sarsfield)
Matko MILJEVIC (Argentinos Juniors)
Nehuen PEREZ (Argentinos Juniors)
Luis INGOLOTTI (Aldosivi)
Martin ORTEGA (Quilmes)
Anibal MORENO (Newell’s Old Boys)
Tomas CHANCALAY (Colon)
Franco CAMARGO (River Plate)
In a match which produced a few goals by Argentina internationals, AS Roma and Atalanta drew 3-3 with Javier PASTORE and Emiliano RIGONI both scoring.
Javier PASTORE scored his first goal for new club AS Roma within two minutes of the match. A lovely backheel flicked goal by the former Palermo and PSG man have Roma the early lead.
However, that advantage was wiped off following Timothy CASTAGNE’s goal. Former Zenit man Emiliano RIGONI gave Atalanta the lead as he was fed in one on one with the goalkeeper and slotted the ball into the back of the net. Emiliano RIGONI struck again, this time in the 38th minute as once more he was one on one with the goalkeeper.
Rodrigo DE PAUL has added another goal to his name, this time in Udinese’s 1-0 victory aginst Sampdoria in Serie A.
The former Racing Club man has now scored two goals in Serie A this season for Udinese, the first coming in a 2-2 draw against Parma. He has already scored half of the amount of goals which he finished with last season with only three matches into the season.
Also in Serie A on the weekend was Giovani SIMEONE scoring and assisting for Fiorentina. While DE PAUL is not in the Argentina squad and has never been capped, with performances like these, he could find himself in the Argentina National Team fairly soon.
Giovani SIMEONE got himself a goal and an assist for Fiorentina while Lucas OCAMPOS scored for Marseille and Luciano VIETTO assisted for Fulham.
With his father Diego SIMEONE in the stands, Giovani SIMEONE bagged himself a goal and an assist in Fiorentina’s 6-1 win against Chievo. SIMEONE, who has been called-up to the Argentina team, assisted Marco BENASSI with a cross in for the third goal of the match.
Giovani would later add his name to the tally in the 93rd minute as his shot went through the legs of the goalkeeper. Fellow Argentine international and club captain German PEZZELLA played the full 90 minutes for Fiorentina.
Another former River Plate man scored in Europe as Lucas OCAMPOS got his first goal of the season in Marseille 2-2 draw against Rennes. OCAMPOS got the rebound off just centimeters in front of goal.
Luciano VIETTO did not score like Roberto PEREYRA did earlier in England but he had two assists to his name in Fulham’s 4-2 win against Burnley. The first was a simple pass just three minutes in as Jean Michael SERI scored an absolute screamer of a goal. The second was a cross sent in which found the head of Aleksandar MITROVIC as he made it 2-1 for Fulham.
VIETTO looked like an absolute star as he created five goalscoring chances including one big chance which fell to Andre SCHURRLE but the German had shit shot saved by Joe HART.
