Coach Guillermo Milano defined the list of 18 players who will make up the Argentine men’s handball team, Los Gladiadores, in the South-Central tournament in Recife, Brazil, from January 25 to 29, with four places at stake for the 2023 Poland-Sweden World Cup.
Argentina, who held a training camp in San Luis to find their best form for the continental competition, will not be able to count on Pablo Simonet, due to an ankle injury.
who will their debut in official championships —beyond preparatory tours and cups or friendly matches— will be three players who are active in Spanish handball: the pivot Gonzalo Carro Castro (BM Nava) and the laterals James Parker (Benidorm) and lucas aizen (Handball Cangas).
On Monday morning, the Albiceleste delegation will take a flight from Aeroparque to São Paulo, where they will make a stopover to go to the city of Recife. The DArgentine debut in Group A of the South-Central, with DeporTV televising, will be on Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. against Bolivia, being free on Wednesday to face his second and last match in the preliminary round on Thursday at 6 pm against Uruguay – Colombia was the other member but he gave up participating-.
The The first two teams in each group will advance to the semifinals and will keep one of the four places at stake for the 2023 World Cup in Poland and Sweden.
Argentina will seek to dispute its 14th ecumenical event, from which it has never been absent since its first appearance in Japan in 1997.
The complete list of summoned
Archers: Leonel Maciel (Barcelona – ESP), Juan Bar (Anaitasuna – ESP).
Extremes: Federico Fernández (San Fernando HB), Ignacio Pizarro (Enchanted City – ESP), Santiago Baronetto, Ramiro Martínez (Endless Handball – ESP).
Sides: Nicolás Bonanno (Anaitasuna – ESP), Guillermo Fischer (BM Valladolid – ESP), Federico Pizarro (Enchanted City – ESP), Pablo Vainstein (BM Benidorm – ESP), Lucas Aizen (Cangas Handball – ESP) and James Parker (BM Benidorm – ESP).
Centrals: Diego Simonet (Montpellier – FRA), Pedro Martínez Camí (Colegio Ward) and Santiago Cánepa (Villa de Aranda – ESP).
Pivots: Lucas Moscariello (Montpellier – FRA), Gastón Mouriño (Don Cossacks SFEDU – RUS) and Gonzalo Carró Castro (BM Nava – ESP).
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