As he counts the hours until his debut in the Under 20 World Cup, the Argentine National Team will play a friendly against their Japanese counterpart this Monday from 3:30 p.m. at the AFA premises in Ezeiza (without television).
The team led by Javier Mascherano finished its first week of training this Sunday for the top event in the category, including a friendly victory against the Dominican Republic -integrates Group D with Brazil, Italy and Nigeria-: 4-0 with goals from Valentín Carboni (Inter of Italy), Ignacio Maestro Puch (Atlético Tucumán) and Juan Gauto (Huracán) twice.
As for this Monday’s rival, a tougher test of a team with more football tradition and that knew how to be world runner-up in the category (1999) and reached the round of 16 in the last two dates (2017 and 2019). Japan will be in Group C with Senegal, Israel and Colombia.
The Argentine debut in the The World Cup will be on Saturday 20 at 6:00 p.m. against Uzbekistan at the Único Madre de Ciudades stadium, in Santiago del Estero. The scenario will be the same for the team’s second presentation, on Tuesday the 23rd at 6:00 p.m. against Guatemala. While for the third date it will be necessary to go to San Juan to face New Zealand on Friday the 26th at 6:00 p.m.
For his part, Uzbekistan lost 2-0 this Sunday in a friendly with Uruguay -integrates Group E with Iraq, England and Tunisia- played in Montevideo. The Asian cast comes from being champion for the first time on their continent and will be playing their fifth World Cup (they reached the quarterfinals in 2013 and 2015).
Las tickets for the World Cup, which will be played in Argentina between next Saturday and Sunday June 11, went on sale this weekend through the Deportick portal. For the match between Argentina and Uzbekistan -which also includes the match between Guatemala and New Zealand-, the prices are 3,000 in the headers and 4,000 in the stalls.
2023-05-15 02:11:37
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