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GOMEZ STILL DREAMS

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The Catania midfielder Alejandro Gomez has revealed that he still has high hopes of playing for the Argentina national team, despite not being selected yet by the manager Sabella. The 24-year-old has been one of the best players for Catania this season. He arrived at the club back in 2010 and he has risen to be one of the important players this season. He has so far scored four goals in 14 appearances he has made in the league along with the five assists as well. His form has not gone unnoticed after that have been calls for his selection into the Argentina national team.

Alejandro Gomez has revealed that he is aware of the fact that it is extremely difficult to get into the national team, while it is even more difficult for players playing outside the big clubs like Milan and Juventus. Even though he has said that playing for Argentina will be his main priority, he has not ruled out the possibility of representing the Italian national team if the opportunity to play for the South Americans does not arise. There have been a number of players in the past who have chosen the Italian national team on the basis of being naturalised rather than being born in the nation.

“Here in Italy, people see me playing every week and they see I’m doing fine, scoring goals. So they ask me: ‘When do you think you’ll be called up by Argentina?’ But I always tell them the same thing. In the position I play, there are players that are world class. They play at the top clubs in the world and I think it’ll be complicated for me to make it. I realise I play for Catania and that doesn’t exactly sell papers like if I played, for example, for Inter. That’s the reality,” said Gomez.

READY IN TIME

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The FIFA general secretary has recently said that all the whole stadium is intended for the purpose of hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup matches will be ready in time. However, Jerome Valcke recently said that he doubts whether the nation will be able to complete the construction work before the start of this tournament. He is currently overseeing the progress made by the South American nation in delivering the World Cup. Valcke has said that he is expecting that more than 500,000 fans will be making the trip to the South American nation in order to see the World Cup.

As a result, infrastructure like transport and hotel also needs to improve, but Brazil are still a long way off from meeting the demands of the tournament according to Valcke. He has recently said that an unnamed city has just 17,000 hotel rooms despite having a stadium capacity of more than 45,000. The country has spent more than £ 9 billion in updating the infrastructure aspects in all the host cities. This includes aspects like the renovated or newly built stadiums – which number in 12 – airports, and bus lanes. The Sports Minister of Brazil, Aldo Rebelo recently said that he wants to make the World Cup leave a lasting legacy on the nation.

“In one unnamed city there are 17,000 hotel bedrooms and a 45,000 capacity stadium for the World Cup. But we have now moved from talking about the problems to talking about the solutions. We are able to find and answer the problems,” said Valcke. FIFA and the Brazil government have already come at loggerheads regarding a number of issues. However, it is expected that Brazil will certainly be not completely ready in number of ways for the 2013 Confederations cup that will take place in the summer.