Draw Martnez, the Argentine starting goalkeeper.
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Aston Villa’s goalkeeper, Emiliano “dra “Martnez, one of the heroes of obtaining the Argentine national team in the Copa Amrica in Brazil, traveled today to Venezuela to join the group of footballers summoned by technical director Lionel Scaloni for the triple date. Qualifiers, but both he and his teammate, Emiliano Buenda, from Mar del Plata, will not be able to be present against Bolivia.
Martnez embarked on a private flight with Buenda and the other two Argentine footballers who play in the Premier League, central defender Cristian Romero and midfielder Giovani Lo Celso, both from Tottenham Hotspur.
The notification of the absence of Martnez and Buenda on Thursday, September 9 against Bolivia, on the River Plate field, for the tenth date of the Qualifiers, was made public by the English club through their social networks, while regarding “Cuti “Romero and Lo Celso, Tottenham have not yet spoken.
Aston Villa can confirm Emi Martnez and Emi Buenda have travelled to join up with the Argentina squad with the permission of the club in accordance with FIFA’s international match call-up rules.
Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) August 29, 2021
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“Aston Villa can confirm that Emi Martnez and Emi Buenda traveled to join the Argentine team with the club’s permission, in accordance with FIFA’s international match calling rules,” says the first part of the entity’s statement.
“Both players agreed to be available for the first two qualifying matches for the World Cup in Argentina, against Venezuela and Brazil, but they will not participate in the third international match against Bolivia,” finally clarifying the text as to what the Argentine team refers to. .
In this way, Martnez and Buenda may be in the first matches against Venezuela (Thursday, September 2 in Caracas) and Brazil (Sunday, 5 in São Paulo), but they cannot be taken into account for the third match against Bolivia at the Monumental, where there will be a 30 percent capacity of Argentine fans who will be able to celebrate precisely the obtaining of the Copa America.
However, the statement was even more extensive and pointed to the availability of both players for future presentations in the Premier League, with content that is more eloquent.
“These arrangements mean that Martnez and Buenda will only miss our Premier League match with Chelsea before being available for Everton’s visit to Villa Park on September 18, to comply with UK Covid quarantine regulations,” the writing continued.
“There are no easy solutions, as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to negatively affect professional sports. After careful consideration, we believe this plan respects long-established calling rules and balances the importance that the best players place to represent their countries in important matches, with the best interests of Aston Villa “, he completed.
In this way, the stiff resistance of the Premier League clubs to give up their South American footballers was broken for this triple window of September FIFA Date, since the leagues of Italy, Portugal and Spain (made a similar request to the TAS but was rejected) had led their clubs to decide to discontinue their calls.
The problem, which in the case of England pointed to the 10 days of isolation that footballers must perform once they return to Great Britain, did not have its correlation with the other three targeted countries, but what bothered them the most was the addition of an unusual third match for the Knockout windows.
Of course, this “arrangement”, as defined by Aston Villa, seems like a Solomonic agreement between the parties that could also represent a precedent whose risk can only be determined over time.
Meanwhile, the other 24 players (the River Plate players Franco Armani and Julin Álvarez already carried out their first training session in Caracas under Scaloni on Sunday), with Captain Lionel Messi at the helm, were traveling to Venezuela, where on Monday and everyone will be integrated into the training of the national team.
Those who traveled this Sunday night from Paris (on Messi’s plane he was accompanied by Angel Di Mara and Leandro Paredes) and Madrid (on a private flight paid for by the AFA) are, in addition to “Lo”, who debuted in Paris Sain Germain with a 2-0 victory as a visitor to Reims (two goals by Kylian Mbapp): Gernimo Rulli, Juan Musso, Gonzalo Montiel, Juan Foyth, Marcos Acua, Rodrigo De Paul, Guido Rodrguez, Alejandro Gmez, ngel and Joaqun Correa, Nahuel Molina, Germn Pezzella, Lucas Martnez Quarta, Nicols Domnguez, Lautaro Martnez, Nicols Gonzlez, Paulo Dybala, Nicols Otamendi, Nicols Tagliafico, Lisandro Martnez and Exequiel Palacios.
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