The South American Youth Championship will begin on January 19, and the U20 teams will participate. A total of 10 teams will participate in this tournament. Ten teams are divided equally into A and B groups. In that case, five teams in Group ‘A’ and five other teams in Group ‘B’ will compete separately.
Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru are in the first group. On the other hand, Ecuador, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile, and Bolivia are in the second group. Javier Mascherano is serving as the coach of Argentina’s under-20 team.
He announced the Argentina squad for this tournament. The Under-20 World Cup will be held in the middle of this year. The top four teams from the South African Youth Championship will qualify directly for the World Cup.
Due to this, the importance of this tournament is very high. Argentina’s squad is unfortunately missing key players like Alejandro Garnacho and Lukaku Romero.
The squad members are Federico Gomez, Franco Herrera, Francisco Gomez, Lautaro de Lolo, Naohel Ganez, Julian Aude, Brian Aguilar, Agustin Guia, Valentin Gomez, Francisco Marco, Ulises, Maximilano Gonzalez, Peroni, Axel, Facunde, Infanteio, Nicolas Paz. , Ignacio, Alegio, Brian, Santiago Castro, Nicolas Vallejo, and Julian Fernandez.
This team has several great Argentine talents who have the potential to become stars in the future. This tournament is called Mini Copa America.