Aaron Anselmino: The Rising Star of Boca Juniors Attracting European Giants

Aaron Anselmino, the new jewel of the Boca Juniors youth team (fotobairesarg)

With just seven games for Boca Juniors, Aaron Anselmino became one of the most watched youth players in foreign football. Three European giants showed interest in the 18-year-old central defender, with regular calls to the Argentine national team.

Manchester United, Real Madrid and Milan are three of the interested teams that according to the European press will come to the charge sooner rather than later for the 2005 youth category, born in Bernardo Larroude, a small town of barely 1,800 inhabitants located north of La Pampa – on the border with Córdoba.

In the short time that he has been training with the Boca Juniors first team, his teammates have already given him a nickname that surprised him. “Cata”, in reference to the former Catamarca defender, Daniel Díaz, a strong defender who was characterized by his personality when engaging in clashes with rivals. Although Aaron does not look as bad as Cata Díaz, his way of playing was quickly highlighted by his teammates who on more than one occasion had to ask him to slow down in practice.

Cata Díaz, former Boca Juniors defender

“Internally they call it Cata, after Cata Díaz. In training, already with Almirón and also with Martínez, they have asked him to lower the intensity a little, because it makes those who pass by feel angry,” revealed Tato Aguilera, a columnist for TyC Sports. “The kid has no problems, he knows how to play, he is tall, he has an impressive bearing, he plays with his right, he plays with his left… but they call him Cata because he gives it to you like Cata Díaz gave it to you,” added the partisan journalist.

A few years ago, Anselmino appeared with journalist Pampa Aranda and recognized that his characteristic of the game is “putting”. “I play too, but I like to score. I always liked to play in the middle, but if I have to play center back I do it. “I really like Gago,” acknowledged the man from Pampa who was a central midfielder and captain of the Boca Juniors team with Diego Martínez as coach.

This is how Aaron Anselmino presented himself in the Boca youth team

“I don’t know anything, nothing was discussed with me personally about the outside teams. I have my head in Boca, I want to continue playing here and winning titles in Boca,” Anselmino managed to say about the transfer rumors after the last match played last week against Central Córdoba de Salta in the debut for the Argentine Cup.

Although Aaron never tires of repeating that his head is focused on the present, reality shows him with a clear possibility of being transferred to European football at a very young age, as happened with Valentín Barco, who was barely 19 years old. That is why the leadership led by Juan Román Riquelme, the first thing they did as soon as they won the presidential elections was to renew and improve Anselmino’s contract and raise his termination clause to 20 million dollars.

The alarms went off in the last few hours after Fabrizio Romano, an Italian journalist specializing in the transfer market, revealed that Manchester United is following in the footsteps of Aaron Anselmino. According to the correspondent, the Red Devils have been watching the Xeneize defender since he debuted in 2023, who also shines in the Argentine youth teams. He even anticipated that the English team has a plan if his hiring is confirmed.

In communication with the party media with The United Stand, Romano assured that although there was no communication with the Ribera entity, the Premier League giant would buy it to transfer it to Nice of France, whose owner is the businessman Jim Ratcliffe, who Through the INEOS group he bought shares in Manchester United. The Briton also owns the Lausanne club in Switzerland.

Meanwhile, Martín Costa, a journalist who supports Boca Juniors, added that Real Madrid, in addition to having Franco Mastantuono in its sights, is targeting Aaron Anselmino and announced that the payment of the 20 million dollar clause would not be a problem for him. Spanish team. “The interest is real, but it does not mean that they are going to come and put in the money. For them the clause is not an issue. Riquelme, warned and aware of this situation, the first thing he resolved after winning the elections was the contractual part of Anselmino and improving his termination clause,” the journalist stated on ESPN F12.

Milan of Italy would be the other powerful European team that wants the defender who has only seven games for Xeneize, four of them as a starter. His official debut was on June 10, 2023 against Lanús, when he came on from the bench. He has played 417 minutes and very recently signed an improvement to his contract that will end in December 2028.

2024-03-27 23:22:00
#incredible #nickname #Aaron #Anselmino #Boca #European #giants #follow #closely