Lionel Messi is adding the first hours of training in Inter Miami at the beginning of his stage in the club of the Major League Soccer (MLS), after the presentation last Sunday and waiting for the first challenge that the team has ahead, next Friday, against Cruz Azul from Mexico, for the first date of Group South 3 of the Leagues Cup. Waiting for the arrival of Facundo Farias, coming from Colón de Santa Fe, the man from Rosario has already met three other Argentine soccer players in the squad.
Who are the crack compatriots who are already at Inter Miami And what is the story of each one of them, who coincidentally have dual nationality in all three cases? One is Nicolas Stefanelli, who could share the lead with Leo from his role as a player who moves through any sector of the attack.
Nicolás Stefanelli, the number 22 of Inter Miami, who led the team to the semifinals of the US Open Cup.Lauren Sopourn – Getty Images North America
Born in Quilmes 28 years ago, His beginnings in professionalism were in Defense and Justice and was part of the squad that achieved promotion to the First Division in 2014. With a brief stint at Villa Dálmine, where he was loaned that year, back to Halcón he was one of the key pieces in the end of the Sebastián Beccacece cycle and the beginnings of Ariel Holan. With the first of these coaches, he scored the agonizing 1-0 win over Chapecoense, from Brazil, for the Copa Sudamericana, and he started crying. It was the last meeting of that stage of Beccacece.
After passing through Sweden, Cyprus and Chile, he arrived at Inter Miami last January, after the retirement of Gonzalo Higuaín, with a two-year contract. Although the team now led by (also Argentine) Gerardo Martino is last in his conference, in the US Open Cup is in the semifinals thanks to Stefanelli’s goal in the 1-0 win about Birmingham Legion last month. An Italian national and Swedish league champion with AIK Stockholm, Nico made 24 appearances for the US team in just under six months and scored three goals.
Another offensive piece, although from midfield, is Benjamin Cremaschi, only 18 years old and starter in Martino’s debut, last Saturday. Rising from the franchise’s minor divisions, he made his first-round debut last February and soon began to get a lot of play. He accumulates 22 games, of which 14 were from the beginning, He scored his only goal, a great goal, by opening the scoring in the 2-2 visit to DC United on the 24th date of the MLS and gave three assists.
The son of Mendoza, but born in Florida, he travels with all the enthusiasm on his first season with the professional team and with a contract until December 2025. His reference is Rodrigo De Paul and Last year, despite being 17 years old, he was summoned by the Sub 20 directed by Javier Mascherano, who put him on the radar after seeing him in the United States Sub 19 team that won the 2022 Slovenian Nations Cup.
“He covers a lot of ground on the pitch, His technique is good, he has a good reading of the game, he moves the ball well and he positions himself correctly on the field”, It was described by former Inter Miami manager Chris Henderson. Previously directed by Federico Higuain, Pipa’s brother, when he was in the Reserve and Gonzalo was the center forward of the main squad.
Benjamin Cremaschi, the MLS jewel who plays for Inter Miami.Instagram
Benja is son of Pablo Cremaschi, a former rugby player identified with the Los Tordos team, from the city of Guaymallén, and who He played 6 caps with the Pumas, the Argentine national team, between 1992 and 1995. Due to those roots from another sport, before turning to soccer, he also it was tested with the oval, while his father played for the Key Biscayne Bears.
the other is Franco Negri, What should he wait to take his first steps alongside Messi. The former Godoy Cruz was the undisputed left back of the team and one of the players with the most minutes in the first half. He participated in most of the games, scored two goals and provided two assists, but in the 4-1 loss against Philadelphia on June 25 suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and had to be operated.
Messi was received with the traditional hallway by all his Inter Miami teammates.@intermiamicf / Instagram
At 28 years old and 1.76m tall, recovery will require at least the remainder of the season. He was born in Mendoza, grew up in Tierra del Fuego, He played in a San Lorenzo affiliate called “Los Cuervos del Fin del Mundo” and he joined the Cyclone living for a year in the club’s pension, but his professional debut was in Quilmes, to later go through Independiente Rivadavia and Belgrano, from Córdoba, in the B Nacional; Newell’s and Godoy Cruz. From there he went free to Inter Miami.
“El Leche”, as he has been called since he was a child, played as a left midfielder and He planned to go into kinesiology. Later, he fell behind in his position in the field and left that job for the future, perhaps after retirement. Strong and positive, he calculates the time he needs to return to the courts.
With the arrival of Messi at Inter Miami, Stefanelli, Cremaschi and Negri join the list of the handful of Argentines who shared a club with the captain of the selected team. Pending the arrival of Farías, up to now there would be four compatriots with whom he would coincide in this squad and only twelve in his career, after doing with Maxi López, Javier Saviola, Gabriel Milito, Javier Mascherano y Santiago Ramos Mingo during his long period in Barcelona and with Angel Di Maria, Leandro Paredes y Mauro Icardi in his short cycle in Paris Saint-Germain.
Conocé The Trust Project
2023-07-21 16:24:00
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