Boca prepares to return to the ring. After celebrating the League Cup (he won in the final against Tigre 3-0, in Córdoba) and to qualify for the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores beating Deportivo Cali 1-0 at the BomboneraSebastián Battaglia’s team will officially compete again this Sunday, for the first date of the Professional League. He will receive Arsenal at 7:30 p.m. as local. But in the mind of the DT there is also the midweek meeting before Ironthree days later, for the 16th of the Copa Argentina.
This Thursday and Friday the squad will train in double shifts at the Ezeiza campus. Although there is no confirmation about the team that would debut against Arsenal, it is speculated that Battaglia would be playing with two different teams, tending to give more prominence to next Wednesday’s Copa Argentina match against Ferro, in La Rioja.
The best team available today for Battaglia, in the usual 4-1-4-1 scheme that the DT is giving continuity to, would be with: Agustin Rossi; Nicolás Figal, Carlos Izquierdoz, Marcos Rojo, Frank Fabra; Alan Varela; Eduardo Salvio, Guillermo Fernández, Juan Ramírez and Sebastián Villa; Darius Benedetto.
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Boca training (@BocaJrsOficial/)
Battaglia will not be able to count on Luis Advincula and Carlos Zambranowho are with the Peruvian team facing the Repechage for the World Cup (this Sunday they will play a friendly against New Zealand) or Oscar Romero, who was summoned by Guillermo Barros Schelotto to play in Paraguay. Plus he’s injured. Diego Gonzalez: He is still recovering from the operation to tear the menisci in his left knee.
But the idea would be to put a team on Sunday and another with Ferro. the changuito Exequiel Zeballos and Luis Vazquez, With Agustin Sandez, Jorman Campuzano and Cristian Medina They could be considered for this weekend, if he finishes shaping the coach’s initial idea of saving the best for the Argentine Cup.
In terms of reinforcements there is no news (for the moment). There are requests from Rosario Central (for Gastón Avila) and Gimnasia (for Marcelo Weigandt) but Boca’s intention is to get rid of them in case of sale, not on loan.
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Boca training (@BocaJrsOficial/)
Villa: psychiatric expert opinion
Sebastian Villa, accused of the sexual abuse of a young woman in June of last year at her home in a country house in the Buenos Aires district of Canning, was subjected this Thursday morning to a psychiatric expert opinion in the Courts of Lomas de Zamora, and the prosecutors are now awaiting the results of the study to determine if they call him for a statement of inquiry.
Judicial sources assured the Télam agency that the expert opinion lasted around an hour and the soccer player left accompanied by his defense attorney without making any statements to the media that were waiting for him at the scene, while the lawyer representing the victim announced that “with the evidence that is already included in the file” the Colombian striker is in a position to be investigated for the crime of “aggravated sexual abuse ”.
Villa arrived at the Larroque building at 2300, where the offices of the Public Prosecutor’s Office are located in the Courts of Lomas de Zamora, around 10:30 this morning sitting in the back seat of an imported truck, accompanied by his lawyer, Martín Apolo.
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Colombian forward Sebastián Villa, of Boca Juniors, regrets having missed a shot on goal in the final of the Argentine tournament against Tigre, at the Mario Kempes stadium in Córdoba, Argentina, on Sunday, May 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Nicolás Aguilera )
The psychiatric expert report had been requested by the prosecutor Vanesa González, in charge of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 3 Specialized in Family and Gender Violence, Sexual Abuse and Crimes Related to Trafficking in Persons of Lomas de Zamora, who is in charge of the investigation of the alleged abuse that occurred on June 26 last year in the country “Venados II” in the neighborhood of Canning. A forensic psychiatrist from the Public Prosecutor’s Office and another proposed by the Boca footballer’s defense were present at the study.
According to the sources, the expert opinion is intended to establish the “traits and/or characteristics of the personality of the accused; possible pathologies or conditions that you present; and if he suffers from any illness or mental disorder that implies any disturbance of the degree of consciousness or affectation of self-criticism”. Once the prosecutor receives the result of this expertise, she would be in a position to decide whether or not to call Villa for investigation, who, although he was charged in the file, his version of the events has not yet been heard.
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