Hello everyone! HAPPY NEW YEAR!  I wish you all the very best this 2017!

Here are some recent quotes by our national team coach Edgardo BAUZA.  He spoke of ICARDI, MARADONA, TEVEZ and more!

“I already spoke with ZANETTI (Inter vice president) and I told him: HIGUAIN and PRATTO are the two center forwards, but the third one is ICARDI. If I get the chance, I’ll sit down and have a chat with the player, but he already knows what I think of him. He knows that if something happens to HIGUAIN or PRATTO, he’s the next one up.”

“I spoke with all the main players, because before starting as the coach for the national team I was getting messages saying ‘they don’t want this player.’ There’s absolutely no problem with any player.”

The 23 year old goalscorer briefly played for the national team in 2013 when he was on the bench against Peru but came in for a few minutes against Uruguay in the next game.

“He knows what I think of him as a player. It’s highly probably that I will go see him in my next trip.”

It is seemingly inexorable now at this point that Mauro ICARDI will be finally called up for the next World Cup Qualifiers in March against Chile and Bolivia.

El Patón also thanked Diego MARADONA for his words:

“Diego was in this place before and know how much we suffer.”

In regards to Carlos TEVEZ:

“Going to China is kind of troublesome. He knows perfectly well what I think of him, and that even though he left I’ll keep following him.”

“We got better in a few things. Slowly we’re having more time to work. We’re seeing if we can have a friendly match before the next call up.”

“I had a three hour meeting with Armando PEREZ and Javier MEDIN to discuss the problems in AFA and the national team outlook. In 48 hours we will know for sure where we will play against Chile.”

So what do you guys think of all this?