The coach of Pujato, world champion in Qatar, will lead the Albiceleste in the Copa América 2024 and in the World Cup to be held two years later in the United States, Mexico and Canada
Lionel Scaloni will continue to lead the Argentine team for at least another four years. The Argentine Football Association (AFA) announced on its Twitter account on Monday the extension of the Pujato coach until 2026, which means he will lead the Albiceleste in the 2024 Copa América and also in the World Cup to be played in the United States . United States, Mexico and Canada.
Scaloni returned the Argentina team to the pinnacle of football last December when the team led by Leo Messi won the World Cup in Qatar after beating France in the final at Lusail Stadium. It was the third star to be sewn on the chest by a team that had already hosted world champions in 1978, with César Luis Menotti on the bench and Mario Alberto Kempes as the main reference on the pitch, reigning again for eight year after that in the World Cup in Mexico, then with Carlos Salvador Bilardo as quarterback and Diego Armando Maradona as flagship.
From that moment began a long journey in the desert that lasted 38 years and that Scaloni ended with the trophy that Messi raised in the capital of Qatar, to the delirium of a country where football is a true religion.
The former footballer of Deportivo de La Coruña, Racing de Santander and Mallorca, among others, had taken over the reins of Argentina four years earlier, after the debacle at the World Cup in Russia and with the rank of interim, but managed to regain his life. to blow the Albiceleste and bring it back to the Olympus of the king of sport through a calm management that calmed down a locker room that was blown up due to a long list of problems that even led Messi to declare that he would no longer be able to blow the Albiceleste to defend.
Scaloni, who in his time had shared a dressing room with the genius Rosario, forged a group of solidarity and without edges in the service of a goal: to give Messi the only title missing from his record and to make him sit to the right of Diego. With a group of workers dedicated to the sacred task of enthroning the star of Rosario and giving the ’10’ brilliant flashes, Argentina once again placed itself at the epicenter of the football planet in Qatar, barely a year after it returned to touch metal with the conquest of the Copa América, the other great success that shines in the fast-paced career as a horse trainer at the age of 44.
Despite winning the trophy in Qatar that had put Scaloni on the radar of several teams, his continuity at the helm of the Albiceleste was a priority for the AFA, who finalized negotiations with the Pujato coach in the hours leading up to the delivery of The Best Awards and when there are still a few days left for the coach to provide the list of those called up for the friendly matches that the Argentina team will play against Panama and Suriname on March 23 and 28. Everything indicates that it will not include big news in the summons and will retain most of the bloc that was declared world champion in Qatar.
Source: La Verdad
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