The Manchester United youth are one step away from an ‘armoured’ position for the Albiceleste, although he has no doubts about which country he wants to represent.
On June 15, they won 2-0 of the Argentina national team against Australia, in the international friendly in Beijing, produced one of the most anticipated debuts in recent times. Alexander Garnacho came the 73′, he put on the albiceleste shirt for the first time and arrivedor to share the playing field with Leo Messi.
What is missing for Garnacho to ‘be Argentinian’?
After the game against the Socceroos, any other country that wants to quote it must wait three years. And since he is under 21 years old, He must play three games with the Argentina shirt to be definitively armored: after its debut, the youth team also participated in the 2-0 win over Indonesia, so there is only one game left before it is finally armored and cannot return to represent another country during his career.
In this way, if Lionel Scaloni decides to take part against Ecuador or Bolivia at the start of the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, for which he was called up, he will no longer be able to represent another country.
Anyway, garnacho He has already spoken out on this and was forceful: “I have not doubted anything because I feel Argentinian, because I am Argentinian. They bet on me and I was clear about it: it’s a very big team. I don’t have to play three games, this tour doesn’t matter, I already know I want to be with Argentina.”.
And when the game was over, he used his social networks to leave a very clear message: “And that if this is a dream, they will never wake me up”, he wrote accompanied by an emoji of emotion and three images, in which he can be seen the moment he enters the field, another with the ball at his feet and the rest with about four or five years and already wearing the Albiceleste T-shirt.
Garnacho’s History
The young was born on July 1, 2004 in Madrid, in 2015 ficor for Atlético Madrid until he went to Manchester United in 2020. Even from 2018 to 2020, he was cited by Spanish Under-17. The entrance door of the extreme to the world champion country is in his mother, Patricia, who has the Argentinian nationality.
With this data the Argentinian scouts who started an intensive search in Europe for potential young footballers who could join the national ranks, were created with the surname Garnacho. The youth stood out in the Red Devils’ academy and quickly earned his place in the first team, where he was welcomed by, nothing more, nothing less, Cristiano Ronaldo.
In Argentina he was called up by Javier Mascherano for the Sub-20, he played the tournament Maurice Revello where I came fromor revelation player and best goal of the championship. In addition, Lionel Scaloni called him up for the March double date of the 2022 South American Qualifiers, although he did not play. And he also received the call from Javier Mascherano to play at the World Cup, but in this case it was Manchester United who refused to give him up, because he had been inactive for a long time due to an ankle injury and Ten Hag wanted it. having him available in both the last days of the Premier League and in the FA Cup final, in which he came on in the 62nd minute.
Source: Goal