The president of the AFA, Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia, traveled to Spain to participate in a tribute to Diego Maradona in the youth tournament of L’Alcudia and took advantage of the visit to meet with some members of the Argentine national team in Madrid.
Tapia will be this afternoon (night in Spain) in Valencia to discover, together with the coach of the under-20 team, Javier Mascherano, a bust of Maradona at the Els Arcs stadium as part of a tribute by the organization of the youth tournament to the Argentine star, who died in November 2020.
Before traveling to L’Alcudia, Tapia was in Madrid and met with several members of the Argentine team. “With the kids of the Scaloneta”, wrote the president of the AFA in a photo that he published on his social networks together with Rodrigo De Paul, Ángel Correa, Nahuel Molina and Giovanni Lo Celso. The first three play together at Atlético de Madrid and Rosario Lo Celso awaits his departure from Tottenham in England, where he will not be taken into account by Italian coach Antonio Conte.
The memory of “10” will be evoked in the preview of the second commitment of the Argentine team in the traditional international tournament, which will be against the representative under 20 of Valencia. In the first meeting, those led by Mascherano equalized goalless against Rukh, from Ukraine.