Nicolás Tagliafico has spoken about Julio Soler and Valentín Barco being the future left backs of the Argentina national team.
Tagliafico and Marcos Acuña have been the two left backs for the Argentina national team for several years. With Tagliafico being 32 years old and Acuña being 33 years old, Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni could be looking to bring in younger left backs.
Julio Soler has never played with the senior national team while Valentín Barco has been in and out of the team. Speaking in an interview with Infobae, here is what Tagliafico had to say about future left backs for Argentina:
“Soler now that he has left for Europe. There is Colo Barco, who alternates there a bit laterally, higher up. It’s hard to develop players in that position. Not only on the left, but also on the right.
“I feel that, in my time, it happened that the fullback was used as a center back or played higher up. If he was very skilful, they moved him up and if he was very rough, very sturdy, they moved him to center back, as if they didn’t form a fullback.
“I was lucky to have Silvio Marzolini as coordinator at the time in Banfield, the best fullback, I didn’t see him play, but they say he was one of the best fullbacks in the history of Argentina.
“I was lucky that he told me: ‘No, come as a fullback’ and I played as a fullback all my life, but I think that today the fullback is not given the necessary importance and in football it is used a lot today”.
