Higuain Sr: ‘600 goals on the bench’

By Football Italia staff

The father of Juventus striker Gonzalo Higuain slams Argentina Coach Jorge Sampaoli - “you have two players with 600 goals between them and don’t play either!”

The Albiceleste went out of the World Cup to France on Saturday, with Lionel Messi starting as a false 9 and both Pipita and Sergio Aguero on the bench.

“I can’t really think of a valid explanation which holds up,” Higuain Sr told Canal America.

“I don’t know why Argentina played with a false 9 against France, he [Sampaoli] had his reasons but sometimes it’s hard to understand them.

“You have two players [Higuain and Aguero] with 600 goals between them and don’t play either! If you don’t like one, play the other!”

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