2023-08-22 00:15:29
08/21/2023 7:15 p.m. Updated on 08/21/2023 7:44 p.m.
It was not a surprise because it was coming. In fact, the leader Carlos Manta, of the Uruguayan Football Association, confessed it after hearing the news: “I saw coming that Suárez and Cavani were not going to be on the list.” And so it was: the call for Marcelo Bielsa for the first date of playoffs It does not include the Pistolero, currently in Gremio, and the Matador, from Boca.
Both will be absent in the match against Chile, on Friday, September 8 in Montevideo, and in the visit to Ecuador, four days later. Although the list was not released and only two weeks before the games it will be known who will make it up, it is known that Nicolás de la Cruz, from River, is there.
Why were both casualties imaginable? El Loco had said something last May, when he was asked about them, in addition to Diego Godín, already retired. “I have not spoken with each one of them. I think so, that it is up to speak, listen, be heard and then the inevitable task of deciding if it is necessary to do it. I do not have a previously established position and in the case of players clearly identified by their age, speaking without having spoken to them would not be prudent.
It is clear: the man from Rosario is starting a renewal process and the plan he is executing goes in that direction, with the intention of leaving space for other footballers to assume leadership. In addition, there is another situation that both must attend to, with Suárez with a knee problem, for which he had even asked to leave Gremio earlier (it will be in December) and with Cavani in the process of adapting to Argentine football.
Cavani during the World Cup in Qatar.
Decisions are strong. Suárez was left out for the first time since 2007 and Cavani since 2008. They drag three world cups as protagonists. Of course, El Loco is exposed to a bad result, but he did not definitively leave them out either and the possibility of a return will remain open, unless in his next public exhibition, scheduled for the week of the match against the trans-Andean team, he sentences a casualty. . In any case, he never acted that way with other footballers, both in his cycles in Argentina and in Chile.
Of the historical, according to the local press, the goalkeeper Fernando Muslera remains, since Bielsa considers that for now he is key.
Cavani at the World Cup in Qatar.
The historical numbers
Suárez, 36, has accumulated 68 goals in 137 games with Celeste. While Cavani, of the same age, scored 58 goals in 136 appearances. Both won the 2011 Copa América, with Master Oscar Washington Tabárez as coach, in Argentina.
Uruguay’s main objective, the World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico, in 2026, seems to be a little further away.
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