Buenos Aires, Jan 5 (EFE) .- Javier Mascherano, former player of Barcelona and the Argentine team, will assume a position within the structure of National Teams of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), it was reported this Tuesday through Twitter of the Albiceleste.
“Javier Mascherano, accompanied by physical trainer Pablo Blanco and Oscar Hernández Romero, will join the structure of National Teams in charge of the Department of Methodology and Development that will be presented in the coming weeks,” the message states.
Two photos were also released on the social network in which the former player is seen meeting with, among others, the president of the AFA, Claudio ‘Chiqui’ Tapia.
Mascherano, 36 years old and known as the ‘Jefecito’, announced that he was retiring on November 15, and already then it was predicted that his future would be linked to the Argentine youth teams from this year, after several conversations with Tapia.
At the time of his dismissal, Mascherano was a player for Estudiantes de La Plata.
“I want to announce that today I am retiring from soccer professionally, I want to thank this club that gave me the opportunity to finish my career in Argentina,” he emphasized when announcing his goodbye as a player.
In addition to Estudiantes and Barcelona, Mascherano, trained in the lower divisions of River Plate, went through the Brazilian Corinthians, the English West Ham and Liverpool and the Chinese Hebei Fortune.
He was twice Olympic champion with the Argentine National Team at the Games in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 and participated in four World Cups (Germany 2006, South Africa 2010, Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018), the World Sub’17 in Trinidad and Tobago 2001 and Sub ‘ 20 from United Arab Emirates 2003.
Also in five Copa América (2004, 2007, 2011, 2015 and Centenario 2016), in addition to the South American Sub’17 Peru 2001 and Sub’20 Uruguay 2003.
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