"Argentina haven’t won a World Cup in 20 years and manager Alejandro Sabella will be looking to piece together and utilise all the talent from the nation to do just that and win World Cup 2014."
Lionel Messi of Barcelona will be a key figure in what is a talented squad including Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero and Real Madrid’s Angel Di Maria.
Gonzalo Higuain’s summer move from the Madrid giants to Napoli is looking like a move that will likely secure a place in Argentina’s 23-man squad for the World Cup as he has averaged 1 goal in every 2 games for the Italian outfit.
Defensively they have Javier Mascherano and as Liverpool fans will remember he is a defensive rock in addition to Manchester City’s right back Pablo Zabaleta.
Currently in the Spurs’ squad, Erik Lamela hasn’t impressed since his estimated £30million move from Roma in the summer so may be subsequently dropped from Sabella’s national squad.
The South American nation only have two recognised strikers so recently called up Mauricio Icardi will be looking to put his name in the striking department alongside Aguero and Higuain.
Argentina don’t have a well-known goalkeeper but Sergio Romero of Monaco is the current number 1.
Lionel Messi will firstly be looking to get himself fully rehabilitated for Barcelona in the short term but also for Argentina next summer in the long term. Secondly he will be looking to make more of an impact for Argentina than he has in recent times.
Argentine players that will be fighting for a place in the squad are among the likes of Fabricio Coloccini for Newcastle United and Oscar Ustari for Almeria.
The two times Argentina have won the World Cup has been when it’s close to home for example the first World Cup they won was when they hosted the World Cup 35 years ago in 1978 and eight years later in 1986 in Mexico albeit with Diego Maradona’s help.
Since 1994 World Cup in America, Argentina haven’t made it past the quarter finals in this competition and given the World Cup is being hosted by one of their neighbours in Brazil they may feel they have a better chance than ever to improve or even win the competition.
I feel Argentina won’t do as well as they may hope due to the quality coming into the competition for example Germany, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, France, England and Uruguay all teams that play better under pressure in my opinion which is probably why they haven’t done so well in recent World Cups but excelled in the South American Cup.
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