With low profile, Scaloni came to Argentina to fulfill a challenge with his coaching staff

Lionel Scaloni He stepped on Argentine soil again, but this time it was not to build lists or give press conferences. The world champion coach came with a very personal plan: fulfilling a post Qatar promise. This Sunday, May 4, Staircase And his entire coaching staff will run the Río Pinto 2025 challenge, one of the most popular mountain cycling competitions in the country, at the summit, Córdoba.

The race will have more than 5,500 participants and the data that shakes the world of sport is that they will be among them StaircasePablo Aimar, Roberto Ayala, Walter Samuel, Matías Manna, Luis Martín and Martín Tocalli, the same ones that led to the selection To touch the sky with your hands in Doha.

Pujato’s coach is already tanned: weeks ago he participated from Mallorca 312, a very hard test of 167 kilometers on the island where he resides. Not only did it finish it: it was 17 ° among more than 3,200 runners, with a time of 4h54m11s. Now the challenge will be local, with 85 kilometers along the Valley of the Pinto River, in a route that long and arrives at the Aero Club de la Cumbre.

Scaloni finished 17 ° on Mallorca 312

According to the environment, this group plan had been brewing for a long time, but the tight calendar had postponed it. “Now everyone has a bike: Ayala has, Samuel and Aimar too,” he had told the DT Post Copa América in a note with Olé, where he also explained his link with the two wheels: “It is a sport that trains you against yourself. It has no contraindications and only has benefits.”

The presence of Scaloni in Argentina is just one month before having to define the list for dates 15 and 16 South American qualifiersbefore Chile in Santiago and Colombia in Buenos Aires. And with an extra difficulty: several of the usual summoned could miss that double date by the Club World Cup.

In parallel, Staircase He was also recently in the United States, where he was a special guest in the presentation event of the AFA Expansion Plan in Miami. There he remembered his first days at the head of the ARGENTINE SELECTION: “At the beginning, the selection had no coach. My answer was yes, without knowing if my coaching staff accompanied me. They are opportunities that are given once in life and with your country,” he said.

While waiting for the time of hard decisions to approach, Staircase pedaling. As always: calm, without selling smoke and heading on what is coming.