Australia coach Graham Arnold said today, Wednesday, that his team will not compete next week’s Copa America to complete the number but rather “shock the world” by beating Argentina, participating in the hosting, on the way to the quarter-finals.
Today, Wednesday, Australia, who is participating for the first time in the championship in South America with an invitation card, entered the first group with Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and Chile.
And Australia, which is ranked 42 in the FIFA rankings, left the group stage in the last three World Cup entries and failed to defend the Asian Cup title by exiting the quarter-finals last January, but Arnold is looking to reach a distant point in the Copa Cup. USA.
“We look forward to meeting Argentina,” he told reporters on closed-circuit television. I am not coaching any team that has a goal other than winning, why don’t we shock the world and defeat Argentina on their soil? This is the goal and these are our aspirations.
Arnold was coach of Australia when she lost 1-0 from Argentina led by Lionel Messi in the 2008 Olympics in the group stage before Argentina took the gold medal.
