“He laughed on my face”

Agustina Albertario He surprised the world of hockey last week when he announced on his social networks that he was not going to be more part of The Lionesses and opened the door to speculation: “I will tell the reason later when I finished processing everything that happened”. Finally, the 32 -year -old striker broke the silence on Wednesday and said that he felt that Fernando Ferrarateam coach, He laughed on his face.

“I know the rules of the game: it is the selection and the best play. If you are not at your time … that is not questioned. I had thousands of coaches and it was always like this: he gave up, there was; I didn’t give up, I wasn’t. What I say are forms, “he said in an interview in the program It would be amazingfrom Olga.

“I had a talk with Ferrara. One day he told me ‘Agus, can I talk to you?’. ‘Yes, obvious’I replied. We sat down and, very nervous, it tells me that I was not going to take into account, or for the Copa América this year or for the World next year. I asked him to give me a reason. After 15 years, tell me something or show me a video and tell me ‘Agus you are not for this, this and this.’ The only thing he told me was that it was not for performance, that he wanted to try new fronts. It seems great, and it happened to me with other coaches, but they left me out of a trip, they did not disaffected me from the lionesses, “Albertario said.

The player emerged in Lomas He said he recorded the calls he had with Ferrara so that they did not accuse her of being lying and that she did not expect to stay outside the selected one day to the other.

“I asked him in December that if I was going to get me to do it at that time, that I was going to hurt in my soul, but if I would have to move alone and organize my life,” said who today distributes his life between Buenos Aires y Uruguaywhere he lives with his boyfriend, the footballer Lautaro Rinaldi.

As he said, the coach told him – as he did with other referents – that vacations were taken in December and that he would return in January and thus take advantage of the matches of the Pro League From the end of 2024 to shoot new players. But at the beginning of this 2025, he asked him to return only in March.

“He told me that if I took me in January I had to put me in the pro -February project. I noticed something strange and told him ‘Tell me things, fer. I have not bullshit for 15 years. If you want to get me, I ask you to tell me now, because if I return in January I leave my life, I’m going to spend fortune ‘“Albertario recalled.

As Ferrara confirmed that she was going to continue, she rented an apartment in Buenos Aires to live during the week and be able to train with the team. But shortly after, that talk was given with the coach, who took her by surprise.

“It happened to me and we saw it with other players who resigned from the destroys. The coach’s reasons are perfect, but we are not career horses. I feel he laughed on my face. I always said what I think and that is what leads me to be here. There are people who do not encourage to talk because they see what happens. There were many players who were on the team, they spoke and Chau, “he said.

And pointed out the lack of support and containment that the team members have. “We have no containment, we don’t have a psychologist. I want it not to happen more from now on. Help at the exit because nobody prepares you for after,” he lamented.

Albertario debuted in Las Leonas on January 26, 2013, when with just 20 years he faced Peru in a South Americanmatch in which he scored two goals in the historic win by 20-0.

Since then, he played more than 40 tournaments and reaped unforgettable achievements. Among its maximum milestones are the silver medal in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Gamesthe silver in the WORLD OF SPAIN-LOW PAISES 2022 and the Olympic bronze in Paris 2024.

He also played the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games And two more World Cups, Hague 2014 y London 2018. His palmraés is impressive: gold in the South American games of 2014 and 2018, in the Pan -American Cup 2013 and 2022, in the World League 2015 and in the Pan American Games of 2019. Thus it became one of the great figures of Argentine hockey in the last decade.

In total, he played 238 international games and scored 117 goals. And although the message he published a few weeks ago in his account of Instagram He had a lot of final goodbye, this Wednesday left the door open.

“I did not give up the selection, the selection is not renounced”he said. “I just turned 32, I feel full, I will always be open to the selection, wanting to give everything, which is all for love. I am grateful to the whole medical body, kinesiologists, leaders, and I do not close the doors to the lions.”