Racing had the presence of Santiago Sosa and Maravilla Martínez in an ideal 11. This Wednesday the final results of the traditional survey carried out by the Montevideo newspaper El País, called América Responde, were known to choose the best footballer and coach of 2025 in South America, and the team of the year: and in this last item, the Academy had Santi and Adrián Martínez as representatives.
After the participation of 264 voting journalists, in a 3-4-3 scheme there was a predominance of men from Flamengo, champion of the Copa Libertadores and the team that eliminated the Academy in the semifinals. This is how the lineup looked: Agustín Rossi (Flamengo); Danilo (Flamengo), Gustavo Gómez (Palmeiras), Leo Pereira (Flamengo); Guillermo Varela (Flamengo), Santiago Sosa, Erick Pulgar (Flamengo), Giorgian de Arrascaeta (Flamengo); José Manuel López (Palmeiras), Martínez and Lionel Messi (Inter Miami).
The election determined that the Uruguayan Giorgian De Arrrascaeta was the most outstanding (he obtained 241 votes). Gustavo Gómez finished 2nd with 201, Agustín Rossi 181, Adrián Martínez 138José López 126, Santiago Sosa 122Danilo 120, Leo Pereira 110, Guillermo Varela 103, Messi 77, Erick Pulgar 74, Vitor Roque 73, Jorge Carrascal 72, Jorginho 71, Joaquín Piqueréz 69, Pedro Guillherme 46, Alex Sandro 39, Gabriel Rojas 36Carlos Izquierdoz 33 and Bruno Henrique 31.
How Costas finished in the survey
Regarding the coach, the Brazilian Filipe Luis (Flamengo) won with 72% of the votes, Gustavo Alfaro (Paraguay national team) was second with 8.7% and Gustavo Costas third, with 5.6.
Santi had already joined another ideal 11, in this case the one that put together the Professional League. Santi was with Facundo Cambeses and Gabriel Rojas, in that case without the presence of Adrián Martínez.
The permanent inclusion of Acadé players in the ideal 11 of different teams is a well-deserved recognition of the performance of several Academy players. It is no coincidence that Cambeses, Rojas, Sosa and Martínez have been declared non-negotiable by the leadership in this transfer market. They will only leave if a club appears that puts up the money for the clauses and the players want to execute them. The goalkeeper’s is 15,000,000, the left winger’s is 15,000,000, the midfielder’s is 12,000,000 and the scorer’s is 122,000,000 (that symbolic number completely shielded him).
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