Germán Pezzella joined the National Team in Miami, but Scaloni’s concern is Hurricane Milton: when will they travel to Venezuela

Little by little, the Selection Argentine soccer team is completing its squad after the call for Lionel Scaloni for the date of South American Qualifier for the next World Cup. Although injured, German Pezzella has already joined the property of Fort Lauderdalein Florida, United States, where the Combined.

There they work in the face of shocks Venezuelaas visitors, and Bolivia -as hosts-, with Lionel Messi at the head after the injury that took him out of the final of the America’s Cup against Colombia. The River defender joined the group, despite the injury he is suffering from.

Pezzella suffered a microfracture in his jaw, behind his left ear, after a blow with Mateo Pellegrino in the last game that River and Platense played. However, after the rigorous evaluations, he traveled to Miami to join Lionel Scaloni’s team, to be evaluated by the medical staff. Julio Solerthe Lanús U23 team called up due to Marcos Acuña’s injury, will travel directly to Venezuela.

And when the team travels? This climatic phenomenon has a direct impact on the plans of the National Team, which had planned to travel to Venezuela on Wednesday and is expected to Milton hit hard in the Fort Lauderdale area that same day.

Therefore, the AFA analyzed two variants to arrive on time for Thursday’s match, at 6:00 p.m., in Maturín. One was to leave on Tuesday – something that was not announced – and the other is to do it on the same day of the duel against Vinotinto.

However, this possibility runs counter to FIFA regulations which stipulate that delegations must arrive at least one day before the match venue. Meanwhile, The cessation of operations at the Tampa and Orlando international airports is imminent due to security issues.

For now, on Tuesday afternoon, the team will complete another day of training behind closed doors. Scaloni will have to sort out not only evaluate the convenience of having Pezzella injured, but also rearrange a team that will not have Emiliano Martínez -the goalkeeper was suspended for two dates-, nor Paulo Dybala, Alejandro Garnacho, the aforementioned Acuña and Nicolás González, all with medical license.

But that’s not the only con: Hurricane Milton is another problem beyond the coach’s ability to solve. The phenomenon that threatens the coasts of Florida and Mexico with “probability of maximum sustained winds of 257 kilometers per hour, with gusts,” has the delegation on edge.

Although the intensity of the hurricane dropped to category 4 – after reaching the maximum of five on Monday -, it remains a “great threat” since from category 3 onwards, they are “extremely dangerous” and generate “devastating damage.” “even for solidly built houses, and that “there will be a lack of electricity and water for several days after the storm passes,” according to the National Hurricane Center (CNH).

The CNH warns that a storm surge of up to 15 feet could occur off the coast of Tampa: waves as high as the average roof of a home. With emergencies declared in dozens of Florida counties and evacuations underway, residents have congested roads and highways as they try to get out of the storm’s path.

Milton is the second major hurricane to hit the Gulf of Mexico in two weeks, after Helene, which caused at least 230 deaths. We will have to wait for its passage – or the reduction in its magnitude or deviation – to see which ones will give the Combined on their journey to reach the next World Cup.