Collected the gear Matías Vargas in the last hours and said goodbye to Marbella Football Center, with the uncertainty of whether he will step on those same facilities again in a few weeks, when Espanyol do their preseason there. The unknown, beyond his immediate future as a parakeet player, revolves around the last t-shirt you have worn these days in the Andalusian high-performance center, just before going on vacation: the albiceleste.
The ‘Monito’ participated in the concentration of Argentina U23 to prepare for the Tokyo Olympics, just as he had done in the friendlies in March in Japan. He was able to play this Friday 45 minutes against Saudi Arabia (0-2 win), and yet did not enjoy a single minute on Tuesday against Denmark (1-2). Vargas had not been part of the Pre-Olympic either, and in fact to this last call he has come for the positives in COVID-19 of Leonardo Balerdi and Nazareno Colombo.
That is the great doubt of the Espanyol attacker: know if the Argentine coach, Fernando Batista, will finally count on him for the Olympic Games. Not too many weeks ago, before finishing LaLiga Smartbank with Espanyol, Vargas clearly expressed his desire: “For me it's a dream to be able to go to the olympic games or to any tournament with the national team. “And he sentenced: “It is something that I am wanting and dreaming about, I am preparing myself, I want to be and hopefully it will happen.“. It is a matter of time to know if he will travel to Tokyo to measure himself at Australia, Egypt and Spain, at the beginning of the fight for the medals.
