faith Valverde will be the captain of Uruguay today, unless Josema Giménez is on the field, in the debut against Saudi Arabia in Miami. A debut full of enthusiasm for being the first match of a Uruguay that was left with Bad taste in the mouth in the 2022 World Cup after an elimination in the first phase that was barely decided by goals in that insufficient victory against Ghana (2-0).
For Fede, it will also be his second World Cup, and he faces it in a different way. The one of 2022 was his first and he left with a bad feeling because of what happened at the team level (KO at the first opportunity) and his personal tournament, far from what he had been demonstrating with Real Madrid. “I am indebted to the people of Uruguay,” has said these days, remembering that in Qatar he left some things behind.
Valverde’s goal (3-0) in Real Madrid 3-0 Manchester City
Fede, in addition, will have a positive fact today that calls for luck to those who do not believe in coincidences, and that is that FIFA appointed the Italian Maurizio Mariani, the referee who directed that match, as the main referee for this match. first leg of this year’s Champions League between Real Madrid and Manchester, with a 3-0 victory for the whites.
That March 11 of this year ‘El Halcón’ scored a hat-trick, the only one in his professional career. He scored three goals in the 20th, 27th and 42nd minutes, in what was beginning to be his best period of form. from FV last season. An exceptional Fede that gave RM a pass to the quarterfinals
And today, with the same referee on the field, Valverde has the opportunity to start a World Cup on the right foot in which aims to be transcendent for his Uruguay.
