While Lionel Messi awaits the qualification of Argentina U23 to compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Uruguay is competing in the South American qualifying tournament with Marcelo Bielsa at the helm.
All Lionel Messi admirers will have an eye in the coming days on the Conmebol pre-Olympic tournament which will determine the two qualifiers for the Paris 2024 men’s football tournament next summer. If the Abiceleste qualifies, the Ballon d’Or record holder could be called to the rescue by Javier Mascherano, at the head of the Argentine Hopes. Angel Di Maria is also expected.
The Argentines will challenge their Uruguayan neighbors in the first round of this TQO scheduled in Venezuela, which begins this Saturday, and it is Marcelo Bielsa who is in charge of the Olympic team, he who took the reins of Uruguay ago a year. The top two in each group will then play a 4-a-side mini-championship (starting February 5). Brazil is the favorite of the other group.
Gold medalist with Argentina at the 2004 Games in Athens (with Mascherano), Bielsa therefore dreams of leading Uruguay to Paris 2004, during a tournament which will obviously not only be played in Paris. The beloved former OM coach thus has a chance to make his return to the Stade Vélodrome, which will host the competition until the semi-finals. The two finals will be played at the Parc des Princes.
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