An old tweet from an Estudiantes fan has become relevant on social networks in the last few hours and has gone viral due to how cautionary – or ironic at that – it has become over time. “Let Scaloni manage the national team, that’s all,” the user wrote. Franji On December 23, 2013, when no one could have imagined that a low-profile footballer who was going through the final stages of his career would end up leading Argentina to one of the most successful stages in its history.
In those days of December 2013, Lionel Scaloni He was far from the national team and far from the general idea of becoming a coach. In fact, it was so Substitute in Atalanta’s 4-1 loss to Juventusin the middle of the Italian League. At that point he was still part of Bergamasco’s team, although he was already going through the twilight: he hardly had anything Eighteen months of professional lifeIts activity will begin to decline significantly. So much so that in the entire year of 2014 Play only one matchHis final participation as a professional will take place between December 2014 and May 2015.
In Atalanta, he lived with several well-known names in Argentine football: Maximiliano Morales, Dennis the German, Carlos Matthew and Facundo Parraamong other things. Meanwhile, his time as a national team player was ancient history: his last real contact with the Albiceleste was in World Cup 2006He played only one match (Mexico in the round of 16). His journey in the pioneer was short: One official match Through the qualifiers heading to Germany and Friendly fiveafter his youth passed through Pre-Olympic 2000 and 1997 U-20 World Cup.
The strange thing is that although no one knew it, Scaloni was already thinking about the future. Even before he retired, he started Trainer courseConvinced that this would be his way. He started for free with the first-year cadet team (with 14-year-olds)/Son Calio in 2015. He was assistant coach to Gabriel Nieto. In the summer of 2016, it had the Leo Scaloni Technical Campus. These were his first steps, as he dedicated himself to this matter three years after that tweet: he thought about it but had no plans yet. His first paid experience in the youth team came in MallorcaHe worked between July 2016 and May 2017, while he waited Jorge Sampaoli He kept his promise to add him to his coaching staff.
He was finally relegated to the AFA June 2017As Sampaoli’s assistant. The rest is modern history: After the 2018 World Cup, Scaloni was left in charge of the national team in an interim position that ended up redefining Argentine football forever.
Why did you tweet it? It remains a mystery, many consulted him but he let it go…
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