The Copa America 2024 It is less than a month away from starting, but the team’s friendlies will be held in the days before to try to get to the competition that will take place in the United States in the best possible way. Chili It is one of the teams that intends to strike and will play a duel against Paraguay on June 11. For this reason, the coach Ricardo Gareca announced the list of summoned players in which the absences of Arturo vidal and Gary Medel. In that sense, the ‘Tiger’ announced the reason for these casualties.
Through a press conference that was held at the Juan Pinto Durán facilities, the Argentine coach announced the 24 players to face the clash with the ‘Guarani’ at the National Stadium in Santiago. And both the ‘King Arthur’ As the ‘Pitbull’ will not be present, a situation contrary to Claudio Bravo, Alexis Sanchez, Eduardo Vargas and other elements that made up the ‘Golden Generation’.
“This is the match with Paraguay. Then I can expand, bring, remove, put two more guys. Logically, there are many boys on this list who are going to join the Copa América,” he said in the first instance.
In the same way, he assured that the payroll may vary and that Vidal neither Medel are excluded for Copa America 2024. “We can go with 26 players, 24 or 25. This is what we are going to see after the game with Paraguay and then we will resolve as quickly as possible to know if boys are added or changed. Of course, they are highly recognized guys. They are not ruled out in any way“, accurate.
Ricardo Gareca was asked if the two emblems of the ‘red’ They were aware that they were not going to be called for this occasion and he implied that he never promised them a place.
“I’ll be clear. I already was. I talked to each one, we introduced ourselves. I saw it as something important for them to know us. I haven’t promised anyone anything at all. It was simply as a presentation and if they were interested in the selection, if they looked competitive. They all gave me an affirmative answer. From there, we take out what we want to see, evaluating. They are players of tremendous importance, who we are going to take into account, but for this match we decided this,” he explained.
The duel against Paraguay will be important for the Chile team and Ricardo Garecawho after the victory over Albania and the defeat against France, will try to give the players a feel to implement their idea of the game prior to the Copa America 2024. Along those lines, get to know the 24 chosen ones:
Archers: Claudio Bravo, Gabriel Arias and Brayan Cortés.
Defenses: Matías Catalán, Paulo Díaz, Thomas Galdames, Mauricio Isla, Igor Lichnovsky, Felipe Loyola, Guillermo Maripán and Gabriel Suazo.
Midfielders: Rodrigo Echeverría, Erick Pulgar, Diego Valdés, Marcelino Nuñez and César Pérez.
Fronts: Ben Brereton, Alexis Sánchez, Eduardo Vargas, Maximiliano Guerrero, Cristian Zavala, Marcos Bolados, Víctor Dávila and Darío Osorio.
At the beginning of this month, Ricardo Gareca announced the preliminary list of 55 players of Chili for the Copa America 2024. However, there was one footballer whose inclusion caught attention: Luciano Cabral. It happens that in 2019 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison and currently, due to his good deeds, he is on parole.
But the controversy with his call came from the fact that the United States is a country with limitations when it comes to granting entry permission to a person with this type of background. Along these lines, the former Peru strategist admitted that he has not received any update on the case of the Coquimbo Kingdom midfielder and did not ensure his presence for the Conmebol tournament.
“They haven’t told me anything about Cabral yet, officially, regarding the visa or permit. What we have resolved is this. If it is resolved in his favor, I wouldn’t be able to answer you if he is on the list either.“, accurate.
