Seleccion Sub 20 en los Juegos Panamericanos (R)

The Sub 20 will try and right the ship after the unfortunate collapse against a far inferior portugal side in the panamerican games starting the 18th of October In Guadalajara. We open the group on the 19th against none other than Brasil.

Here is the list of players called up:

Rodrigo Rey, Germán Pezzella, Ezequiel Cirigliano y Leandro González Pirez (River Plate); Sergio Araujo, David Achucarro y Franco Fragapane (Boca Juniors); Lucas Villafanez y Lucas Kruspzky (Independiente); Esteban Andrada (Lanús); Hugo Martín Nervo (Arsenal F.C.); Adrián Martines (San Lorenzo); Carlos Luque (Colón de Santa Fe); Fernando Coniglio (Rosario Central); Michael Hoyos (Estudiantes de La Plata); Matías Laba (Argentinos Juniors); Leonardo Ferreyra (Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy) y Alan Ruiz (Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata).

 

When I saw the line up i know we were doomed. He did this in the U20 world cup when he would take off Ferrerya and put on Iturbe, and tonight he started Araujo and had no #9

the guy has no sense of how he wants the team to play or the identity. He just pulls 11 names from a hat and hopes for the best. THe player selections are bad, but the worst is how badly the team plays together, how there is no idea. Most of these kids have been playing and training together consistently since early 2010 and a year and a half later there is no improvement, no identity, no style of play... luckily we have individual talent or we wouldn't have done half as well as we have under this clown

We tied Brasil which is a good result on the surface, but Argentina was FAR better. With a proper coach we would have won the sub 20 world cup and would have thumped this brasil 3 or 4-0

 

Argentina up 2-0 on Costa Rica Fragapagne scored right before half time and German Pezzella just scored the 2nd

 

GOLAZO DE ARGETNINA!!!!! Kruspzky after a great pass from Coniglio

 

So now Perrazo is trying to make a 4th substitution the announcer can't figure out if the rules are different in the panamerican games this its very strange...

Hoyos comes on for Fragapagne maybe the rules are different in this tournament which is incredibly stupid... or leave it to Perrazo to make 4 changes and have the points taken away after

 

OK so now the announcers say there were only 3 changes made but the idiot announcers on ESPN Deportes thought Martinez had entered, but he hadn't and had in fact start the game, and they thought he was a different player... so stupid ESPN announcers and their substitution graphics actually proved to be more incompetent than Perazzo, which is saying something

Argentina wins 3-0 easily in spite of their pathetic coach, now comes an even easier game against Cuba

Man of the match was Pezzella he bossed the game at the back and got on the score sheet.

 

Albiceleste2010... since when i say i will be called biased, do you believe Pezzella and/or Pirez should be called up for the full national team?

i mean argentina plays bolivia next and these two pibes wouldn't do any worse than demichelis and burdisso, who have quite frankly taken argentina as far as they can.

that is my one gripe with sabella is that he has yet to call one player from the sub 20 for the national team even though the team is obviously super talented, but really held back by the incompetent perazzo. he didn't even call any up to the local nt that played brasil

 

The team is looking good, what i missing is a 9... Its understandable that Ferrerya was held back by Banfield, they need him... but this lack of 9 is made even more confusing by Perazzo's substitutions, even when he had Ferreyra in the sub 20 he pulled him out around 55 minutes every game... now he takes off the attacking players and puts on midfielders even if we aren't winning, which makes no sense

So without a true 9 and without a good coach, I see Mexico as favorites playing at home, but Argentina has by far the best defense and midfield so we will see what happens.

 

Great game so far from Pezzella (with the goal), Gonzalez Pirez, and Cirigliano... Andrada strong in goal... Fragapagne and Laba look decent... awful game from Araujo and Luque just damn awful

 

its just frustrating this coach didn't take a single 9 to the tournament- luque and araujo are just terrible... neither can finish a play for their lives

and Araujo just missed AGAIN one on one with the goalie!!!! this guy is really a shit footballer

 

good, albeit unimpressive win.

Pezzella will be player of the tournament if argentina can beat mexico, but it won't be easy...

A victory over the hosts, Mexico, in the Omnilife Stadium where many of Mexico's players play for Chivas would be HUGE for building confidence and regaining prestige after all the failures at all levels the last 5 years, though unfortunately it would also mean Perazzo would keep his job