The coach of the Argentina Sub 20 soccer team, Javier Mascheranoadmitted that the team “was not up to the task” in the defeat suffered last night against Brazil by 3 to 1 in the south american colombia.
“There are no excuses, we were not up to the task and that is the reality. You have to improve a lot”, said the former captain of the senior national team and world runner-up in Brazil 2014 when evaluating what has been done by Argentina against the Brazilian team.
Regarding the development of the meeting, mascherano said a DirecTV Sports Que “There is not much to say, we were greatly surpassed by Brazil. It remains to take responsibility and I am”.
“The reality is that it hurts, because I will use the illusion of playing a good game against a great rival, but obviously it did not happen.”, maintained the coach after the second consecutive defeat of the albiceleste in the tournament, since in his debut he fell to Paraguayan 2-1 last Saturday.
The Argentine team was on the verge of elimination to qualify for the final hexagonal, which would mean not participating in the Malaysia World Cup and in the Pan American Games in Chile.
Argentina now has little chance of qualifying, as it depends on beating Peru Y Colombiaand that the Colombian team also loses against Brazil.
