The Argentina Olympic Team have landed in the United States.
The team have landed and are currently in Boca Raton, Florida preparing for their friendly matches against Colombia and Haiti. The team already trained on Monday, doing light work. At the end of the training session, the team was greeted by 1986 World Cup winner Oscar GARRE.
They are staying at the Renaissance Hotel in Boca Raton.
Yes, you read that correctly.
Apparently, Jorge BURRUCHAGA and Nery PUMPIDO (both from the 1986 World Cup winning team) are being considered for the Argentina coaching job. There seems to be a weird obsession within the AFA and the 1986 team (hiring back-to-back coaches in Diego MARADONA and Sergio BATISTA) and now these names surfacing.
From the initial names being rumored of Jorge SAMPAOLI, Marcelo BIELSA and Diego SIMEONE to BURRUCHAGA and PUMPIDO. While there was some hope of one of the first three taking the job (as small as those hopes were), we went from those names back to the 1986 generation.
Lionel MESSI has been nominated for another award.
Lionel MESSI is up for UEFA’s Best Player in Europe award. MESSI has won the award twice (the most of any player). He was the inaugural winner of the award in 2010-2011 and is also last year’s winner. Here are the ten nominees.
Manuel NEUER
Luis SUAREZ
Toni KROOS
Thomas MULLER
Lionel MESSI
Antoine GRIEZMANN
Cristiano RONALDO
Gianluigi BUFFON
Gareth BALE
PEPE
The award is decided by journalists who voted and the top three will be announced on the 5th of August. The winner will be announced on the 25th of August.
Facundo RONCAGLIA has joined Celta de Vigo.
Facundo RONCAGLIA is back in Spain (after having a brief spell at Espanyol) and has left Genoa (he was on loan from Fiorentina). He signed a four year deal.
According to reports, Manchester City have bought Geronimo RULLI.
TyC Sports in Argentina are reporting that the English club have signed the goalkeeper. It seems as if RULLI will remain a Real Sociedad player for this season but would eventually join City.
