The Argentine men’s handball team met this Tuesday for the first time after the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to formally start Guillermo Milano’s cycle as coach, who summoned 21 players to prepare the team that will face the Center-South tournament in Recife, Brazil, from January 25 to 29, qualifying for the 2023 World Cup.
“I face this new process with great enthusiasm and enthusiasm, thinking not only of this tournament but of the entire cycle until Santiago 2023 and with the possibility of reaching Paris 2024, trying to achieve an overcoming project”, assured Guillermo Milano, who will be for the first time in command of the Argentine National Team, after the departure of Spanish Manolo Cadenas.
“In these last 15 years very important things have been achieved and we aim to live up to what Los Gladiadores stand for. Without making major changes and maintaining the work philosophy that we have had for a long time, we even aim to take a leap in quality “he added.
Milano scheduled a first practice this Tuesday at the Vicente López Municipal Club, while from next week they will do it at CeNARD.
“I think the team is eager to renew the energy after the huge World Cup we did and the Olympic Games, which were not what we wanted. There is a thirst for revenge to return to the great level we had in Egypt. The boys are very excited and very well predisposed to return to compete and be together. These players have something that is wonderful and that is that the National Team is a priority in their life and that makes everything when competing is enhanced, “he said.
In the list of 21 players called to train, the obvious absences of now former captain Gonzalo Carou, who will become assistant coach Milano, and another emblematic athlete such as Sebastián Simonet, who also recently ended his history in the Argentine National Team, stand out. .
The one who receives a call again is Gonzalo Carró Castro, a 27-year-old pivot with dual Argentine-Spanish nationality and a defensive specialist for BM Nava in the Iberian country. Carró played the 2015 Junior World Cup with the albiceleste shirt and in older he was part of the Four Nations Brazil 2017 Tournament -the first competition of the Manolo Cadenas cycle- and on Sunday Bárcenas 2018.
Thus, the 21 cited by Guillermo Milano are: Goalkeepers: Leonel Maciel (Barcelona – ESP), Juan Bar (Anaitasuna – ESP), AgustÃn Forlino (Sedalo), Juan Ignacio Villarreal (Sedalo); wingers: Federico Fernández (San Fernando HB), Ignacio Pizarro (San Fernando HB), Santiago Baronetto, Ramiro MartÃnez (Endless Handball – ESP), James Parker (BM Benidorm – ESP); wingers: Pablo Simonet (Ciudad Encantada – ESP), Nicolás Bonanno (Anaitasuna – ESP), Federico Pizarro (Ciudad Encantada – ESP), Pablo Vainstein (BM Benidorm – ESP), Guillermo Fischer (BM Valladolid – ESP), Lucas Aizen (Handball Cangas – ESP); central: Diego Simonet (Montpellier – FRA), Pedro MartÃnez (Colegio Ward), Santiago Cánepa (Taubaté – BRA); pivots: Lucas Moscariello (Montpellier – FRA), Gastón Mouriño (Don Cossacks SFEDU – RUS), Gonzalo Carró Castro (BM Nava – ESP).
The Center-South Recife 2022 tournament will deliver three direct places for the 2023 World Cup, which will take place in Poland and Sweden during the month of January of that year. Argentina will arrive in Recife as the defending champion of the title achieved two years ago in Maringá, when they beat local Brazil 25:24 in an unforgettable closing and will have the possibility of reaching the three-time championship consecutively, if the gold achieved in the 2018 Greenland Pan American Championship.
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