Football takes many turns and a World Cup final generates stories, many of them hidden, that are worth recovering. The one of COTIF 2016 has crumb The international under 20 tournament that takes place every summer in L’Alcudia and that has earned its prestige, took two teams that had stood out during the tournament to the final. A Spain Argentina that heralded a night of good football. And so it was. The final was won by Spain after overcoming an initial goal from a young man who would win the MVP of the tournament and whose name was Lautaro Martínez. The game went to extra time and in it those of Luis de la Fuente, coach of that Spain, managed to come back with a side with impossible hair on the field with an illustrious surname: Cucurella.
Lautaro was the best player of the tournament in 2016.
A decade later Lautaro and Cucurella They face each other in the final of a World Cup. The Inter striker and the Real Madrid full-back have been decisive in helping their respective teams advance to the big duel in New York. Thousands of hours of work to go from that international summer tournament to Metlife Stadium in which they will play the game of their lives in what can be considered one of the most attractive World Cup finals in history.
Scaloni on the COTIF bench.
The Scaloni-Aimar duo won in 2018
The title achieved by Spain in 2016 had Luis de la Fuente as the great architect. Three years before he had already raised it with the Red and years later he would end up making the leap to the senior team with results that are visible. De la Fuente almost handed over to a young Argentine who was starting on the bench. In 2018 Argentina won the tournament and at the helm of the albiceleste a duo started that has touched the sky. Scaloni and Aimar They sat on the bench and took Argentina to the final, defeating the Russian team that had given the big surprise in that edition.
