Lionel Scaloni: “I wanted to thank Noticias magazine for choosing me”

“I wanted to thank Noticias magazine for choosing me”said the technical director of the Lionel Scaloni National Team through a video in which he also explained that he would have liked to be present, if it were not that he is in Qatar waiting for the soccer world cup to start. The Argentine strategist was recognized by NOTICIAS as one of “The 10 Argentines of the year”.

Lionel Scaloni arrived in the Argentine National Team as assistant to Jorge Sampaoli in the project for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. He was in charge of analyzing rivals. That experience allowed him to return to work in the team he had been a part of 12 years earlier, since in 2006 he played his last game as a national team player.

After the resignation of Sampaoli and the crisis that caused his departure, Scaloni asked to remain linked to the Selection, but in the Sub20. That position lasted a few months because in September 2018, they asked him if he could temporarily take over the Major selection.

Argentina had Lionel Messi, one of the greatest players of all time, but they couldn’t capitalize on that advantage. Between Scaloni and Messi there were things that united them. Both are from Santa Fe, fans of Newell’s Old Boys and Scaloni played his last World Cup as a player, in 2006, the year Messi played his first World Cup. The last game they played together was in the round of 16 against Mexico.

Scaloni was the revelation of the Selection: He entered temporarily and ended up positioning her at the top of world football. Since 2018, he has led the most important generational replacement process in recent years. Very few players remained on the squad and the mission was to put together a competitive team, while forming a united group, with chemistry and good coexistence. Everything was achieved and demonstrated with the first great consecration of Scaloni as DT: the title of Champion of America in 2021.

This consolidation was acquiring the name of “Scaloneta”, the nickname that the team received in homage to the engine of that group: its technical director. For this reason, the “Scaloneta” is not just a soccer team. It is a project that went through a process of renewal and transformation and is coming to the most important challenge since its birth: the World Cup in Qatar. Giving recognition to the “scaloneta” is not just rewarding a person. It is to raise the values ​​of this project: teamwork, humility, effort and passion.

by RN

Image gallery

e planning ad

ttn-25