Enter here Covid-19 pandemic and the FIFA calendar, the CONCACAF Pre-Olympic that starts this Thursday in Guadalajara will be lost to great figures Sub-23 who militate in the old Continent, That give the age and that would have raised enormously the level of the competition and the dispute by a ticket to Tokyo 2020.
the Close FIFA will be from March 22 to 31, while the Pre-Olympic is from March 18 to 30 this month, so that the European clubs are not forced to yield their players for the beginning of the match to lands tapatías.
CANADA WILL NOT HAVE ITS EUROPEAN CHAMPION
Canada is not usually a strong rival in the Confederacy, but for this occasion it is lost to a key piece with Alphonso Davies.
The footballer feeling of the Bayern Munich, European champion by winning the Champions 2020, it gave the age to play in lands tapatías when counting on only 20 years. However, Canadians will not be able to take advantage of the enormous quality of one of the jewels not only of Bayern but of Europe, something that will certainly hit them hard in their aspirations to go to the Olympics.
UNITED STATES, THE MOST AFFECTED
Times change and in CONCACAF it is no exception. At least in this one new litter of footballers under 23 years, Is the United States most affected by not being able to count on several of its figures who are already emerging in the big teams of the old Continent.
Initially, there will be no new “Captain America,” the attacker Christian Pulisic. He is the spearhead of this new generation and at 22 he gave the age, but he will not be in the combined one that directs Jason Circle because he is active with Chelsea, although in the Blues he has gradually lost prominence.
Sergiño Dest, At the age of 20, he has become the undisputed starter in the Barcelona he directs Ronald Koeman, So that even in dreams the DT of the Catalan team was not going to let go for a Pre-Olympic in CONCACAF. Just this Monday he played in the 4-1 thrashing against Huesca, a victory that put the team of Lionel Messi to four points of the Athletic leader of Madrid in Laliga.
Weston McKennie, In his first year at Juventus and at the age of 22, he is also old enough to go to the tournament in Guadalajara. In the Vecchia Signora, in Serie A alone he has played 23 games, 14 of them as a starter in his first year and already scored 4 goals being an offensive winger; not to mention that he also had activity in the Champions League, a tournament from which Porto de la Tecatito Corona recently eliminated them.
Needless to say Gio Reyna, American jewel of Borussia Dortmund that with 18 years more and more is having minutes in the equipment where Erling Braut Haaland “clothes in depopulated”. So far this year, Giovanni Alejandro has played 23 Bundesliga games, 16 as a starter and scored 3 goals, while in the Champions League he has played 6 matches, 4 as a starter.
Finally, Tim Weah, striker of the surprising leader Lille in France could not be called, although at 21 he could well be part of his team. The New Yorker has played 23 games this season in Ligue 1, although only 5 as a starter but has already scored 3 goals.
THE TRI REMAINS WITH THE DESIRE OF LAINEZ
Meanwhile, the Mexican team led by Jaume Lozano could not convince Betis to let go of Diego Lainez before the FIFA date, so the Tri Pre-Olympic will not feature the emerging figure of the green-set. Lainez was on his way to an injury when he was completely unmarked in the box.
nor will it be Gerardo Arteaga, left side in the Genk of Belgium. The 22-year-old Zapopano winger is gaining more and more minutes on his team and of the 15 games so far he has played in the Jupiler League, 11 have been as starters; he even scored a goal. Others who also gave the age were the defense of the Boavista, Jesús Gómez (19 years old) and the Lille midfielder, Eugenio Pizzuto (18 years old).
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