Flea Rodríguez, the most outstanding signing of the cast of Santiago del Estero (Photo: Central Official Córdoba)
Central Córdoba de Santiago del Estero starts the season as one of the teams at risk, although its position is not so uncomfortable: it surpasses Arsenal, Platense, Sarmiento and Lanús in the average table, as well as the recently promoted Belgrano and Instituto.
The most outstanding signing of the cast that Leonardo Madelón now commands is that of Luis Pulga Rodríguez, who left Colón and at the age of 38 begins a new challenge. Lucas Gamba, Ciro Rius and Marcelo Benítez also arrived as outstanding surnames.
“The idea is simple: I propose, we train, we look for evolution, that things come out and the players make the decisions. The pressure depends on the phase of the match and the rival. They pressure you with three, you have to play out. If we throw it long, it is unlikely to succeed. We are not going to be stupid either. We have different plans and then it depends on the feeling of the players. I give him options to play out. I don’t ask for anything that we haven’t trained in,” Demichelis said in his conference prior to the start of the contest.
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The River Plate coach spoke in advance of what will be his team’s debut on Saturday against Central Córdoba in Santiago del Estero
THE RIVER PLATE PASS MARKET
Juan Fernando Quintero, the great loss of River Plate in this market
Beyond the fact that the most outstanding data in this start of the tournament in Núñez is the departure of Marcelo Gallardo after his successful management, the club carried out a balanced transfer market that had as outstanding data the departure of Juan Fernando Quintero to Colombian soccer and the return of Ignacio Fernández after his stay in Brazil.
While waiting for the arrival of the Venezuelan striker Salomón Rondón, Demichelis already has at his disposal the defender Enzo Díaz who arrived from Talleres de Córdoba. In this transfer window, Matías Kranevitter also returned to the club, but he suffered a sensitive injury at the start of the preseason that will keep him away from the pitch for a while.
El Millonario gave Arsenal de Sarandí three interesting inferior projects to win filming: Felipe Peña Biafore, the Colombian striker Flabián Londoño and Daniel Lucero.
“With the greatest respect to all, River made the best transfer market in this window with Matías Kranevitter, with Nacho Fernández, with Enzo Díaz and others of a very high hierarchy are about to fall. More than grateful to the effort of the institution”, assured the coach in his press conference prior to the game.
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He came to Argentine soccer after an enriching first experience at Bayern Munich and gradually began to install his philosophy in a winning squad that needed to be restructured.
Martín Demichelis makes his official debut this Saturday as manager of River Plate.
The time has come for Martín Demichelis for his relaunch in Argentine soccer, which has changed a lot since he left to make the leap to Europe. His official debut as River Plate coach will be this Saturday against Central Córdoba in Santiago del Estero for the first date of the Professional League (LPF). It is also the first test of him as DT in charge of a First Division squad, since he comes from working with youth players in Germany, where he settled after finishing his playing career. His experience so far is little but very enriching: he was Míchel González’s field assistant at Málaga and worked in the Bayern Munich youth team, where he won 10 national titles during his time as a footballer and earned a chance to lead Bayern II after a couple of satisfying seasons at the helm of the Under-19 team.
Central Cordoba: Mark Ledesma; Julian Navas, Fabio Pereyra, Gustavo Canto, Marcelo Benitez; Cyrus Rius, Jesus Soraire, Enzo Kalinski, Leandro Ciccolini; Lucas Prawn and Facundo Castelli. DT: Leonard Madelon.
River Plate: Franco Armani; Andrew Blacksmith, Jonathan Maidana, Emmanuel Mammana, Milton Helmet; Enzo Perez, Rodriguez; Pablo Solari, Nacho Fernandez, Franco Alfonso, Jose Paradela or Esequiel Barco; and Michael Borja. DT: Martin Demichelis.
Stadium: Unique Mother of Cities
Television: TNT Sports
Welcome! Here you will find all the information about the match between River Plate and Central Córdoba de Santiago del Estero that will be played from 9:30 p.m. for the first date of the Professional League.
River Plate officially begins the Martín Demichelis era after the successful passage of Marcelo Gallardo (Photo: Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald via AP)