Argentina Still Building Olympic Soccer Team

Argentina Still Building Olympic Soccer Team

Argentina plans to compete in the 2016 Rio Olympics for its third gold medal in soccer. However, Coach Gerardo Martino is having trouble filling the spots for the Olympic team.

The reason for this is because clubs are refusing to allow their players to join the team. Although the players do want to join, the clubs are not cooperating, nor is the Argentine Football Association helping to encourage clubs to send their players.

In fact, the Argentine Olympic Committee, headed up by Gerardo Werthein, has declared the situation a result of bad management from the Argentine Football Association. (more…)