Genoa – Yesterday personalized training, sprints and shots on goal. Today the decisive test for returning to the group and checks to understand if the knee injury should be dismissed. Or if you still need to wait before returning to the field. It may be a coincidence but without Mateo Retegui on the pitch Genoa remained without a goal. Gila desperately needs it but the nerves remain strong, they don’t want to run the risk of returning to the field in less than optimal conditions.
The Italian-Argentine striker relaxed on Sunday, going to see his sister Micaela play at Lagaccio in an Italian Cup match against the Genoa Hockey Club. Micaela, born in 1996, is three years older than Mateo and is a star in her country, having won the silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In reality the whole Retegui family is a family of sportsmen: her father Carlos (“Chapa ”) for Argentinians he is an institution having coached the national Olympic champion in Rio 2016. His mother also played field hockey and Micaela inherited the same passion from her parents. This summer, to be closer to her, her brother accepted the offer of the Hockey Club Argentia, a Lombard hockey club that trains in Cernusco sul Naviglio, and moved to Monza. A month ago she came to Lagaccio to greet a youth representative of HC Argentia (who trains in Genoa) and on this occasion she received a double visit: that of her father and her brother. Visit immortalized by Micaela’s Instagram profile followed by more than 70 thousand followers.
«This summer we proposed that she come and play with us also because there was already a friend of hers in the team, Pilar Livano – explains the president of Hc Argentia, Luca Fabrizio – she lives in Monza and trains in Cernusco sul Naviglio. In this period you have played in the Italian Cup matches and you will be with us at least until November. She has a double passport like her brother and, if she is no longer called up by the Argentine national team, who knows, maybe one day she too might be called up by the Italian national team.”
A bit like what happened to his brother Mateo who in March was called up by the national team coach Roberto Mancini in view of the qualifying matches for the European Championship. And Micaela posted a photo on Instagram with her brother in the Neapolitan stadium: «My idol in this and all lives. I can’t even express the happiness and pride I feel.” If Mateo is a striker, Micaela is a top-class midfielder for Hc Argentia, a team that plays in A1. On Sunday they beat Hc Genova 10-0 and obtained the pass to the next phase of the Italian Cup.
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