La Selección Argentina

Coloccini may look like Puyol but trust me he plays more like Pique

And yes his injuries and age is making him more weak he really needs to be playing alongside a more athletic and aggressive partner.

I'd say the same with Garay tbh, both are quite slow but positionally excellent with class on the ball they really need supplemented with someone who can cover the ground quickly and dominant aerially. ( although Garay doesn't suffer in the air as much as Coloccini does)

The argentinian nt will have a mini-tour of 2 games in the US in november. And the AFA signed a contract to guarantee Messi will play on both games.

Does the corruption on AFA have really no shame?

Do we know which cities they will plan in? AFA haven't had shame since Grondona took over.

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Do we know which cities they will plan in? AFA haven't had shame since Grondona took over.

15.11 Ecuador - Argentina East Rutherford, NJ, United State, Stadium: MetLife Stadium
18.11 Argentina - Russia St. Louis, MO, United State, Stadium: Busch Stadium

Two games in a week in US, and then away against Granada. Feck off AFA.

AFA have no say if Barcelona decide not to give their man to the national team, unless these two are official FIFA dates?

Pretty sure we don't schedule senior NT friendlies on non-FIFA dates. Those are the dates the European and African WC spots will be resolved so they must be FIFA dates.

Grondona milking all the money he can from Messi then...

Hilarious

Messi is no different to any other player and isn't entitled to any special treatment.

Fanboys are hilarious lmao.

You show me others having contracted to play for money for AFA. Fangirls.

Messi isn't being contracted to play for money for AFA..

Argentina are contracting games with stipulations that involve Messi making appearances.. If he doesn't they get fined. Idk if you know how clauses in contracts work.

AFA get paid more if Messi plays.. paid less if he doesn't.. Messi makes no money from those friendlies.. he can't.

Umm, way to explain the obvious. AFA gets more money because Messi plays, and Messi most definitely is forced to play. If you can't see the logic behind, or don't know the history of AFA and the corruption behind them, simply don't post.

Mash up of all the defensive mistakes.

I'm surprised this video is shorter than 2 minutes...

In Sabella's defense not many of those were the fault of Garay-Fernandez, and we are definitely better off than with Demichellis and Burdisso. But the amount of facepalms within that video is too damn high.

We should call up Musacchio. He does play a little risky but I think he can be a good partner for Burdisso.

While I agree with calling him up, Burdisso?

In a perfect world I would not want to play any of these CBs.

In a much less perfect world I would partner Musacchio with Demichellis. However seeing as he will get close to zero play time at Manchester City I do fear if he'll have any match sharpness next summer.

Still don't understand why he followed Pellegrini to City.

I'm hoping this will grow on me because right now I hate it.

What are you saying BC, I love it. I only wish the stripes extended to the end of the sleeve.

Getting it next month

Dislike the stripe-less sleeves and the white background logo.

Everything looks bad when Di Maria wears it

Dones't seem all that bad

Meh match against Ecuador. Our defence is still in shambles, especially Orban was completely hopeless and choked every time he got pressured. LB still an issue, I'm starting to think if we could call up Zanetti to play on the left he'd perform better than these scrubs

Banega probably Argentina's man of the match with some smart play down the middle. Mascherano was also ok.

http://canchallena.lanacion.com.ar/1639644-la-afa-pagaria-el-regreso-de-los-jugadores-de-la-seleccion-que-no-tienen-continuidad

So apparently the Argentine FA wants to finance 6 month loans for players who are not getting constant minutes in their teams and will get called up for the NT. So Romero, Sosa and Roncaglia could soon see themselves playing in Argentina for 6 months.

Seems like an awful lot of trouble rather than just calling up Willly.

BC, why are you insisting on Caballero?

Because he's better than Romero, performs well at the top level, and has been tested against the likes of Messi, Ronaldo, Villa, Falcao and Diego Costa. But I would be happy to see Barovero or Saja get called up as well.