Every decision you make Marcelo Bielsa generates impact. In Uruguay or anywhere in the world. Already while he was taking his first steps in office, the calls for Edinson Cavani and Luis Suárez were the subject of internal debate and which reached him when they were consulted at press conferences. The Boca and Inter Miami forwards are established but Loco often prefers to train projections with younger footballers. In this case it is the call for Walter Dominguez, the amateur forward who would have his space if he entered the friendly with Costa Rica. At least he will participate in the training sessions prior to the preparatory match for the Copa América.
That meeting will be next Friday, May 31 at the National Stadium from San José, Costa Rica. For the planning of that match, the coach of the Uruguay national team drew lines so that Walter Domínguez, figure and scorer of Sorianoa team recently consecrated champion of the OFI National Team Cup (Interior Football Organization) with the striker as the greatest exponent. The particularity of the summons that Bielsa projects is that he must resort to footballers from teams that are not participating with their clubs in Conmebol competitions, such as the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana. That is why he would not call players from Nacional, Peñarol, Liverpool, Racing (U) and Danubio.
Dominguezwho scored a goal in the final and assisted in the other two for the 3-0 victory against Paysandu in the rematch of the final series that had begun with a 2-1 Sanducero victory on the Litoral del Uruguay. The journalist Alex Martín Rostán published on his “X” account an interview with the player after a match that Walter Dominguez disputed with the Soriano Youth Athletic Institution and the soccer player confirmed the summons: “They called me and I am very happy,” explained Domínguez, according to the Montevideo newspaper El País.
“I didn’t expect it and it was a surprise. The truth is that I am very happy,” added the 24-year-old forward who later and in dialogue with El País de Montevideo, confirmed that he is training in Phoenix and that at the moment – due to regulatory issues – he cannot play until the Intermediate Tournament. Con Soriano Youth accumulates 38 goals in 19 games. To that figure we must add six goals in the same number of games defending the Fray Bentos Football Club and the 13 shouts in 14 games with the national team.
Bielsa leaves no detail left to chance. He knows that he has a squad that can not only be the protagonist in the next Copa América that will take place in the Olympic Games, but also aims to make the Olympic turn. He has a solid base and figures like Federico Valverde, Nicolás De la Cruz and Darwin Núñez, among others, but he does not stop at that. In Uruguay’s preparation is the friendly with Costa Rica and they will also face Mexico on June 5 at the Empower Field at Mile High stadium, in Denver, Colorado, in the United States.