Argie team to meet Canada in the May 24 friendly. 6 substitutes, so will see 17 play, the rest on the bench. Samuel, Demichelis, and Millito will have just played the European Cup final between Inter of Milan and Bayern Munich clubs on the Saturday before.
Before June 1, Maradona, the national coach must deliver the final list of 23 players, so you will see some out there trying to impress. Also, the friendly in Dubai agains the UAE on the 29th has been scheduled, so this is the ONLY match Argentina will play before opening up against Nigeria in the World Cup in South Africa, so this is the last chance to impress. The Argies will oly be scrimmaging with themselves and thier U-21 team in their Pretoria training ground before then.
On the cusp of being dropped are: Aguero, Lavessi, Coloccini, Insaurralde, Garcé, and 3 of 4 of: Mercier, Javier Pastore, José Sosa, and Sebastián Blanco.
Arqueros: Sergio Romero, Mariano Andújar y Diego Pozo.
Defensores: Nicolás Otamendi, Martín Demichelis, Walter Samuel, Gabriel Heinze, Nicolás Burdisso, Clemente Rodríguez, Fabricio Coloccini, Juan Manuel Insaurralde y Ariel Garcé.
Volantes: Jonás Gutiérrez, Javier Mascherano, Juan Sebastián Verón, Angel Di María, Juan Mercier, Javier Pastore, Mario Bolatti, José Sosa, Jesús Dátolo y Sebastián Blanco.
Delanteros: Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuaín, Martín Palermo, Sergio Agüero, Diego Milito, Carlos Tevez y Ezequiel Lavezzi.
The Canadian list of players is not confirmed yet, but unofficial sources include:
Al-Shaibani GK,Wagenaar GK, Straith, Stalteri, DeGuzman, Johnson, Friend, Edgar, Hume, Peters, Jackson.
I am SO pumped I'm bouncing off the walls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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