Argentina get going in the US, first full-squad training session | OneFootball

Those called up by Lionel Scaloni, along with the players added for the friendlies, will train this afternoon in Kansas.

The Argentina national team gets its World Cup dream underway this Monday, and in the afternoon it will hold its first training session ahead of the friendlies it will play on Saturday the 6th and Tuesday the 9th, before the start of the World Cup. Coach Lionel Scaloni will have several absences due to injury, although he will have the players who were added for the warm-up matches.

Although all 26 called-up players arrived Sunday afternoon at the training camp in the country that will host the most matches in this tournament, which begins on June 11, the Pujato native knows he will be without several footballers for the friendlies.

The latest to get injured is Leandro Paredes, who suffered a hamstring tear in his right leg during Boca’s elimination against Universidad Católica, and the focus is on making sure he is available for the debut.

The midfielder joined Dibu Martínez, who suffered a fracture in one of the fingers on his left hand in the lead-up to the Europa League final and arrived in Kansas with the area bandaged.

Meanwhile, Nico Paz is dealing with discomfort in his left knee after taking a hard knock in a match against Hellas Verona, while Cristian Romero is slowly entering the final stretch of his recovery. Something similar is happening with Julián Álvarez, who suffered a sprain in his left ankle at the end of April, in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal against Arsenal, but is expected to arrive in optimal condition.

The list is completed by Nicolás González, with a muscle tear sustained at the end of April during an Atlético de Madrid training session, and Gonzalo Montiel and Nahuel Molina, both with muscle tears.

That is why the coaching staff kept several players on standby in case of possible absences, such as Santiago Beltrán, Agustín Giay, Nicolás Capaldo, Nicolás Domínguez, Matías Soulé, Máximo Perrone, and Emiliano Buendía.

In Kansas, Argentina will be based throughout the entire World Cup, and from there it will travel to the different cities to play its matches, but first it will have to play the friendlies. Because of that, on Friday they will travel to Texas, where on Saturday they will face Honduras in College Station in their first warm-up match. On Sunday they will continue training in Texas and on Monday they will head to Alabama—even farther east—for the Tuesday the 9th test against Iceland in Auburn.

That same day, the squad will return to Kansas to work until its World Cup debut on Tuesday, June 16, against Algeria in that same city. Against Austria on Monday the 22nd, the action will move to Arlington, Texas, and there will also be an immediate return to the Kansas bunker. On Saturday the 27th, against Jordan, the venue will be the same, and it remains to be seen, given that it is a last-minute match, whether they will take the charter flight that early morning or spend the night there. The idea is to stay in Kansas, at least until the quarterfinals, if they make it.

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