The attacker of Inter Milan Joaquin Correainitially included in the list of 26 summoned by coach Lionel Scaloni, will not play the Qatar World Cup 2022 with Argentina due to a tendon injury in his left knee and will be replaced by Thiago Almadamidfielder of Atlanta United of the MSL American.
The Argentine Football Association (AFA) announced on social networks that “Nicolás González and Joaquín Correa were disaffected from the World Cup squad due to injury.”
Joaquín Correa’s place will be taken by Thiago Almada, a former Velez player who this season ended up in American soccer to reinforce Atalanta United.
Joaquín Correa, who has accumulated twenty games with the Argentine national team, with whom he has scored five goals, was a substitute in the friendly against the United Arab Emirates, although he played the second half and finished off the win for Scaloni’s team.
Joaquín Correa’s was the second setback for the Albiceleste team before the start of the World Cup. Hours before, the AFA announced the call of the footballer of the Atletico Madrid Angel Correa to replace Nicolás González, attacker of Fiorteina.
“After training, the player Nicolás González suffered a muscle injury that will leave him out of the World Cup competition,” he said.
The technical body that leads Lionel Scaloni decided to replace him with Ángel Correa, from Atlético de Madrid, “who will arrive in Qatar in the next few days to join the delegation,” said the statement issued by the Argentine Association.
