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Scaloni and Forlán meet as coaches for the first time
Lionel Scaloni and Diego Forlán embraced before Argentina faced Uruguay at La Bombonera.
It was Argentina’s first match without Lionel Messi.
The game was also the coaches’ first meeting in charge of teams, though they knew each other from playing in Europe.
They faced each other eight times as players: Scaloni’s teams won four, drew one and lost three.
Most of those matches came in Spain’s LaLiga, with Scaloni playing for Deportivo La Coruña, Racing Santander and Mallorca, and Forlán for Villarreal and Atlético Madrid.
They never played directly against each other for their national teams, although both were called up for the same Uruguay-Argentina match in 2004.
Lionel Scaloni and Diego Forlán embraced before Argentina played Uruguay at La Bombonera.
It was their first meeting as coaches.
The match was Argentina’s first without Lionel Messi.
The coaches had faced each other eight times as players, with Scaloni winning four, drawing one and losing three.
Their playing-career meetings included matches in the Champions League and LaLiga.
- Who
- Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni and Uruguay coach Diego Forlán.
- What
- They met and embraced before Argentina played Uruguay, marking their first encounter as coaches.
- When
- Not stated.
- Where
- La Bombonera, Buenos Aires.
- Why
- They were greeting each other before the match; a further reason is not stated.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Scaloni and Forlán faced each other in two Champions League group-stage matches.
They met in six LaLiga matches.
Forlán provided two assists in Atlético Madrid’s 2-0 win over Mallorca, Scaloni’s last listed encounter with him as a player.
Scaloni and Forlán embraced ahead of Argentina’s game against Uruguay at La Bombonera.
- Venue
- La Bombonera
- Scaloni’s record against Forlán as players
- 4 wins, 1 draw, 3 losses
- Champions League meetings
- 2 matches in 2002/03
- Argentina’s match
- First game without Lionel Messi