© Getty Images “Santiago Ascacibar is the next Javier Mascherano.”
It was Julio Olarticoechea, a FIFA World Cup™ winner with Argentina at Mexico 1986, who came out with that memorable line in a radio interview during the 2016 Men’s Olympic Football Tournament. Just a few training sessions and a couple of matches had sufficed for the ex-international, coach of the Argentinian Olympic team competing in Rio de Janeiro, to come to this remarkable conclusion about the midfielder, one of Argentinian football’s rising stars.
Six months later, Santiago Ascacibar was able to smile at the memory. “I don’t really know how to take that,” he told FIFA.com. “I can’t even begin to compare myself to Mascherano.” Now captain of Argentina’s U-20 side, the young starlet will, from 18 January onwards, try to help his country to land – via the South American Youth Championship – one of the four available berths at the FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea Republic 2017.
“Fortunately, I have many years ahead of me t..
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