Nico Paz of Real Madrid is going to be released for the Sudamericano while Alejandro Garnacho, Matías Soulé, the Carboni brothers and Luka Romero have not been released by their clubs.

Paz will be released by Real Madrid for Javier Mascherano’s Argentina U20 team which will participate in the Sudamericano tournament at the start of next year. Javier Mascherano announced his preliminary list of players for the tournament and while Paz is not in it, according to Marcos Durán and JorgeCPicon, Nicolás Paz will be released by Madrid for the tournament.

The European clubs will not be releasing their players for the Sudamericano. FIFA does not mandate that they do get released and according to TyC Sports, Manchester United, Juventus, Cagliari, Inter and Lazio are not allowing their players to travel.

Javier Macherano is expected to announce his list on January 5 and will be without Matías Soulé, Alejandro Garnacho, the Carboni brothers and Luka Romero. The Argentina U20 team will take part in the U20 Sudamericano tournament which will take place between January 19 and February 12 in Colombia. The team has been drawn in Group A along with hosts Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay and Peru.

The top four teams in the tournament will qualify for the 2023 U20 World Cup in Indonesia while the top three will qualify for next year’s Pan American games, along with that tournament’s host Chile.

Here are the players that have been called up:

Lautaro Di Lollo (Boca Juniors)
Nahuel Genez (Boca Juniors)
Maximiliano Gonzalez (Lanus)
Brian Aguilar (Lanus)
Julian Aude (Lanus)
Franco Herrera (Newell’s Old Boys)
Brian Aguirre (Newell’s Old Boys)
Tomas Palacios (Talleres)
Gonzalo Alvez (Talleres)
Facundo Buonanotte (Brighton)
Gino Infantino (Rosario Central)
Ulises Ciccioli (Rosario Central)
Alejo Veliz (Rosario Central)
Valentin Gomez (Velez)
Maximo Perrone (Velez)
Mateo Seoane (Velez)
Santiago Castro (Velez)
Julian Fernando (Velez)
Francisco Marco (Defensa y Justicia)
Francisco Gomez (Racing)
Ignacio Mestro Puch (Atletico Tucuman)
Lucas Besozzi (Central Cordoba)
Benjamin Cremaschi (Inter Miami)
Agustin Giay (San Lorenzo)
Nicolas Vallejo (Independiente)
Julian Kadijevic (Comunicaciones)
Axel Encinas (River Plate)
Federico Gomes Gerth (Tigre)

Mascherano’s team plays Paraguay on January 21 in their first match. After that they will play against Brazil on January which is followed by another match on January 25 vs. Peru. The last group match is on January 27 vs. Colombia.

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