Guido Rodríguez has signed a pre-contract with FC Barcelona.
Rodríguez will be joining the Catalan club. According to Gastón Edul, the 30 year old has signed a pre-contract with FC Barcelona and he will be joining them in July.
There have been reports that Guido was expected to leave Real Betis and not renew his contract with the club. The midfielder joined Betis in 2020 where he has played over 150 matches with them and won the 2021-2022 Copa del Rey.
Puma have released the match ball for the 2024 Copa America.
The 2024 Copa America will be held in June and July in the United States and the match balls will have colors of the American flag. The match ball for the group stages and the knockout matches will be white with red, white and blue with the Puma emblem.
Like in most tournaments, the final will also have its own match ball. This one will have the same patterns but in gold, with thin red and blue stripes.
The official Puma match ball for the 2024 Copa America has been released. The ball for the final is the white and gold. pic.twitter.com/fg327Ad61v
— Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) May 10, 2024
Leandro Paredes scored a brace from the penalty spot for AS Roma in their 2-2 draw vs. Bayern Leverkusen in the second leg of the Europa League semifinals. Exequiel Palacios’ team led 4-2 in the aggregate and qualified for the final.
AS Roma was awarded a penalty in the 43rd minute, and Paredes took it to make it 1-0 for his team. The former Boca Juniors player kicked the ball to the center of the goal, while the goalkeeper dived to his right.
The Italian team was awarded a second penalty in the 66th minute after a handball inside the box, and again Paredes took the responsibility. This time the 29-year-old Argentine shot a powerful low shot to the left, while the goalkeeper dove to the other
side, making it 2-0 for AS Roma.
For Bayern Leverkusen, Exequiel Palacios played the whole game. The German team drew level in the last minutes of the match.
Paulo Dybala remained on the bench the whole game as AS Roma’s coach Daniele De Rossi stated before the match that the Argentine was “experiencing a discomfort.”
Exequiel Palacios’ Bayern Leverkusen will face Juan Musso’s Atalanta in the Europa League final.
Lucas Beltrán scored a penalty for Fiorentina in their 1-1 draw vs. Brugge, qualifying them to the Conference League’s final. The Italian team led 4-3 on aggregate.
The Argentines Lucas Martínez Quarta, Lucas Beltrán and Nicolás González started the second leg for Fiorentina. Beltrán played in an unusual position for him as a center-right midfielder until he was replaced in the 89th minute.
With Brugge winning 1-0, “La Viola” were awarded a penalty in the 84th minute. Beltrán took it and kicked the ball powerfully across goal. Even though the goalkeeper dived to that side, he could not stop the former River Plate man’s strike. The ball went to the back of the net, making it 1-1 in the match.
Fiorentina will play the final of the Conference League for the second year in a row. In 2023, they lost it 2-1 vs. West Ham in the 90th minute.
“La Viola” will face in Athens the winner between Olympiacos and Aston Villa.
Lionel Scaloni traveled from Spain to be present at the AFA for César Luis Menotti’s last farewell. The ceremony is taking place this Tuesday at the Lionel Messi complex.
“A football master has left us. Thank you for those heartfelt conversations that left a lasting impression on us. Farewell, dear Flaco,” posted Scaloni on his Instagram account.
The current world champion coach learned a lot in terms of tactics and strategy from the 1978 world champion coach. In addition, Menotti has a hand in Argentina’s third star in Qatar. “El Flaco” supported Scaloni when his position was seriously in doubt.
Per a report by Olé, AFA’s President Claudio Tapia stated the following in 2023 about Menotti’s support of Argentina’s current coach:
“At that moment, one of the most important people told me that ‘El Gringo’ (Scaloni) had to be the coach of the National Team and that he had to have a contract until the World Cup. We couldn’t just give him matches or competitions because we really needed to start a project. So, it was César Luis Menotti who first told me, ‘he has to be the coach from here until the World Cup,’ until the World Cup ends, whatever the result may be.”
Back in 2020, when the National Team was still experiencing a drought of titles, “El Flaco” praised Scaloni’s coaching team of Pablo Aimar, Walter Samuel and Roberto Ayala:
“He is well accompanied, surrounded by young coaches with experience in the National Team, who are in love with the game.”
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