The The Argentine team will face its Paraguayan counterpart this Friday for third place in the women’s Copa América in Colombia, which will provide a ticket to the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. The match will be played from 9:00 p.m. at the Centennial Stadium in the Colombian city of Armenia and will be broadcast on Public TV.
After the painful defeat in the semifinals against the locals, the team led by Germán Portanova will seek to climb to the podium of the competition and qualify directly for the next World Cup that will take place next year in Australia and New Zealand.
the selected one, who has already secured a place in the Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile, will continue to be without the defender Aldana Comettiwho tested positive for Covid-19 and was isolated in Bucaramanga despite the management of the AFA.
From the delegation they presented a second negative swab but the Colombian Ministry of Health considered it positive due to the result of the first antigen test and ordered the soccer player to comply with the 7 days of isolation. In the defense will also not be able to play Gabriela Chávez, who was expelled in the 1-0 loss to Colombia last Monday.
the defender Sophia Braun, who should have replaced Cometti, throbbed the match against Paraguay and assured that it will be “very intense”. “The match with Paraguay it will be very intense. We both want to win and we play for the last place to automatically qualify for the World Cup“, Said the young woman, 20 years old, born in the United States but with Argentine blood from her mother. “I am very happy that I decided to represent this country. After the game with Colombia I received some messages like ‘Thank you for representing Argentina’ and it was very nice,” he said in an interview published on the AFA page. Julieta Cruz or Marina Delgado will replace Chávez on the right side.
The Paraguayan team lost the other semi-final against Brazil 2-0 and in the initial phase they finished in second place below Colombia with 9 points as a result of three wins and one loss. The figure is forward Jessica Martinezauthor of three goals and player of Seville, of Spain.
