Javier Mascherano became the new technician of the Argentina Sub 20 team and will make his debut in the coaching position just over a year after leaving his career as professional football player. The Little boss will occupy the place that he left vacant Fernando bocce Batista days ago to take on a position as a field aide from Jose Nestor Pekerman in the senior team of Venezuela.
“President Claudio Tapia met today with Javier Mascherano to define his relationship as the new coach of the Under-20 Selected, which will start in January 2022 ″reported the official account of the Argentine team.
The symbol of the albiceleste was already part of the national structure since january of this year when he started his project in the Methodology and Development Department that it sought to “give a structure to all youth teams in terms of a training line under the same game model” and intended to create “different training centers” throughout the country to attract talents.
To the 37 years, mesh He comes from playing a last stage as a player at Estudiantes de La Plata, a club where he played until November 2020. Previously, after the 2018 World Cup in Russia, he had announced his retirement from the National selection already with the recognition of being the soccer player with most appearances in the team in all history with 147 games surpassing what has been done by Javier Zanetti (142) until then.
Although the technical body that will accompany him is still unknown, it should be noted that when he arrived at the Methodology and Development office, Mascherano was supported by the physical trainer Pablo Blanco and by Oscar Hernández. Blanco is an assistant who had a lot of experience in national football, but he got more exposure by accompanying Alejandro Sabella during the 2014 World Cup. Hernández, for his part, is one of the friends who garnered the Little boss in Barcelona: “He is a Catalan boy that I met while playing in Barcelona. He spent 10 years working in grassroots football in Barcelona and implemented the grassroots football methodology “, clarified at the time.
In addition to this symbol of the albiceleste who debuted with the country jersey in 2003 –weeks before having his professional debut at River Plate–, Argentina’s coaching structure has Lionel Scaloni as head of the major, in the company of Walter samuel, Roberto Fabian Ayala and Pablo Aimar. Beyond that Clown He is also in the U17 and U15 formations accompanied by Diego Placente. At the same time, Bernardo romero occupies the role of coordinator.
At the beginning of this year a South American Sub 20 in Colombia to qualify for the World Cup in the category, but due to the coronavirus pandemic FIFA and Conmebol decided to suspend it in December 2020. Hours later, the FIFA also canceled the Indonesia U20 Men’s World Cups and the one that was going to be played in Peru of the Sub 17. The U20 World Cup, which has Argentina as the highest historical winner with 6 titles, will finally be played in Indonesia but mid-2023.
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