Argentina (No TROLLS)

[NYC_COSMOS]

It's time to go for the Olympic Gold, maybe we can repeat the 2004 Gold Medal run.

Discuss.

[aerez]

The team is better than last time! I have high hopes.

[Volrath]

Oscar USTARI, (Getafe, Spain)
Sergio ROMERO, (AZ Alkmaar, Holland)
Federico FAZIO, (Sevilla, Spain)
Jonatan MAIDANA, (Boca Juniors, Argentina)Gabriel PALETTA, (Boca Juniors, Argentina)
Ezequiel GARAY, (Racing Santander, Spain)
Emiliano INSUA, (Liverpool, England)
Luciano MONZÓN (Boca Juniors, Argentina)
Pablo ZABALETA, (Espanyol, Spain)
Ever BANEGA, (Valencia, Spain)
Javier MASCHERANO (Liverpool, England)
Angel DI MARIA, (Benfica, Portugal)
Damián ESCUDERO, (Vélez Sársfield, Argentina)
Fernando GAGO (Real Madrid, Spain)
Juan Román RIQUELME (Boca Juniors, Argentina)
Lionel MESSI (FC Barcelona, Spain)
Sergio AGÜERO (Atletico de Madrid, Spain)
Ezequiel LAVEZZI, (Napoli, Italia)
Gonzalo HIGUAIN, (Real Madrid, Spain)
Diego BUONANOTTE (River Plate, Argentina)
José SOSA, (Bayern Munich, Germany)
Mauro ZÁRATE (Birmingham City, England)
Diego VALERI, (Lanús, Argentina)

Pff picking 18 (Or is it 17 or 16? Mascherano and Riquelme are confirmed right?) players out of this list is going to be a though job for Batista. I'm interested in how all our players are going to play together. The Guatemala game was fun with Roman controlling the pace and with Lavezzi and Escudero creating mayhem on the flanks and Pipita being the #9.

[Quaresma]

********ing amazing team.

[VCFan]

********ing amazing team.

I agree, they are very lucky ducks.

[TechFootball85]

they better win the gold with the players like that. :eek:

[VCFan]

I wonder what the average height of the team is? Isn't Diego Valeri like 5 foot 2?

[Volrath]

Nah 5 foot 10, you're probably thinking about Diego Buonanotte.

[VCFan]

Nah 5 foot 10, you're probably thinking about Diego Buonanotte.

Right, my bad :o

[TechFootball85]

Honestly, it is not fair~~~ jk lol

[aerez]

How did the team do in their last game in Spain, I missed the 2nd half and the result?

[Volrath]

1-0, Lavezzi scored I think.

[Volrath]

Full squad


Ustari, Oscar 03/07/86 GETAFE FC
Zabaleta, Pablo Javier 16/01/85 ESPANYOL
Garay, Ezequiel 10/10/86 RACING SANTANDER
Coloccini, Fabricio 22/01/82 DEPORTIVO LA CORUÑA
Monzón, Luciano Fabián 13/04/87 BOCA JUNIORS
Mascherano, Javier 08/06/84 LIVERPOOL
Gago, Fernando 10/04/86 REAL MADRID
Riquelme, Juan Román 24/06/78 BOCA JUNIORS
Messi, Lionel 24/06/87 FC. BARCELONA FC
Agüero, Sergio Leonel 02/06/88 ATL. MADRID
Lavezzi, Ezequiel 03/05/85 NAPOLI, ITALIA

Romero, Sergio 22/02/87 AZ ALKMAAR
Fazio, Federico 17/03/87 SEVILLA
Banega, Ever 29/06/88 VALENCIA FC
Sosa, José Ernesto 19/06/85 BAYERN MÜNICH
Buonanote, Diego 19/04/88 RIVER PLATE
Di María, Ángel 14/02/88 BENFICA
Acosta, Lautaro 14/03/88 SEVILLA

Reserves:

Navarro, Gastón Nicolás 25/03/85 NAPOLI
Pareja, Nicolás 19/01/84 ANDERLECHT
Insúa, Emiliano 07/01/89 LIVERPOOL
Biglia, Lucas 30/01/86 ANDERLECHT

No Higauin is pretty remarkable, I hope it doesn't come back to bite us in the ass.

[VCFan]

I've read somewhere that Coloccini's club won't release him.

[Volrath]

Yup you're right, has been replaced by Burdisso

[scaryice]

Nicolas Burdisso is on the roster instead of Coloccini:

http://fifa.com/menolympic/news/newsid=821669.html#messi+aguero+olympic+squad

[aerez]

No Higuain or Insua are definite candidates for the next world cup and the Olympics is a gateway to be on the team for the 2nd round of action for WC qualifying. Sad :(

[El viejo Matias]

No Higuain is a definate oversight, he in the last games he played for Real was a monster:rolleyes:, I mean this kid has potential in spades.

[Chuchi]

Excuse me, but I want to ask something in Spanish:

¿Finalmente irá Messi a Pekín? Según parece el Barça está presionando mucho para que el chico se quede para jugar la previa de la Champions League. ¿Qué opináis?

[Dr. Know]

He's going.