Agustín Rossi: "I'm good enough for a national team call-up" | OneFootball

AGUSTÍN ROSSI was the cornerstone around which Flamengo built their passage to the final of the Conmebol Libertadores by keeping a clean sheet this Thursday in Avellaneda and denying Racing a goal on several occasions, the last one in stoppage time, by blocking a point-blank shot from Luciano Vietto that was headed for the net.

The Argentine is a fundamental figure for Mengao and supports it with numbers: he has 8 clean sheets in 12 matches of the continental tournament. If he extends the streak in the final in Lima, he will reach the record of 13 held by Franco Armani in 2016, when he won the championship with Atlético Nacional, and Mariano Andújar in 2022, although the latter did not win the title with Estudiantes.

In terms of records, he had reached 1,134 minutes without conceding goals for Flamengo in all types of matches, surpassing Cantarele, who reached 959 minutes between November 1978 and February 1979. Regarding the number of minutes without conceding in official matches, Rossi had also surpassed Diego Alves, who set 618 in 2018.

In the quarter-final phase against Estudiantes, the former Boca player was the architect of the qualification by saving two penalties in the shootout that decided the continuation of the Cariocas in La Plata, making his name resonate among those who call for him to have a chance in the Argentine National Team.

Once the passage to the final was secured, Rossi acknowledged in this regard: “I always said it, even when I was at Boca: if I perform well at my club, I will have the chance to be called up someday, but well... that chance hasn't come yet. Obviously, one always hopes for it and hopefully it will come at some point.”

With Emiliano Martínez as the undisputed master of the Albiceleste goal, coach Lionel Scaloni has options like Walter Benítez, Juan Musso, and even Facundo Cambeses from Racing, who debuted in the last friendly against Puerto Rico by playing a few minutes.

In this scenario, the player who also played for Estudiantes, Defensa y Justicia, and Lanús stated that “I am not the one who decides. I have to keep proving match by match that I am at a level where this call-up can happen and just keep doing that, that's all.”

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