his impressive record with the Azzurra

Mateo Retegui, The Argentine nationalized Italian who emerged in Boca and broke it in Tigre, confirms that he made the right decision by choosing to represent Italy. The 24-year-old Genoa striker scored a double against Venezuela in a friendly played at Chase Stadium, home of Inter Miami, and reached the cfour goals in five games with the Azzurra shirt.

First, he opened the scoring 39 minutes into the first half after taking advantage of an error at the start of Rafael Romo, the team’s goalkeeper. Fernando “Bocha” Batista. He received without a mark inside the area, placed the ball with his left leg and with a right cross made it 1-0.

The joy would not last long for those of Luciano Spalletti because three minutes later, after an even more rude mistake at the start that in this case the Italians committed, Darwin Machis equality was possible, a 1-1 result with which they would go to halftime.

And at 34 minutes into the second half, Retegui, the afternoon’s scorer in Miami, appeared again, with a ‘9’ goal for the final 2-1. He controlled the edge of the six-yard box and in one movement was outlined to score his double. Finally, he was replaced at 86′ and Giacomo Raspadori, the Napoli footballer, took his place.