Claudio Echeverri left the preseason with River to join the Argentina U23 National Team

Midfielder Claudio “Diablito” Echeverri left the preseason with River Plate this Friday to join the Argentine U-23 team coached by Javier Mascherano, who called him up at the last minute due to Pedro de la Vega’s injury.Echeverri completed the week of training with River, which is doing the preseason in the United States, and in the last shift he undertook the trip to Ezeiza to join the Argentine squad that is preparing for the start of the Olympic Qualifiers of Venezuela.La call to “Diablito”, who has agreed to move to Manchester City in England, came days before Mascherano announced the final list of 23 players. After the meeting between AFA and River leaders, Echeverri was released to join the national team. Mascherano’s team, who will be without defender Julián Malatini due to his transfer to Werder Bremen in Germany, a team that denies his loan to the Pre-Olympic Games, will resume work this Saturday with a football practice against Central Córdoba de Santiago del Estero at the Nuevo Gasómetro de San Lorenzo.Venezuela’s Pre-Olympic will distribute two places for the Paris 2024 Games and Argentina will debut against Paraguay on Friday, January 21. then they will play Peru on Wednesday 24, Chile on Tuesday 30 and Uruguay on Friday 2 February.

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