Argentina national under-17 football team

Argentina Under 17

Nickname(s)	Albicelestes (White and Sky Blue)
Association	Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (Argentine Football Association)
Confederation	CONMEBOL (South America)
Head coach	Miguel Angel Lemme
Captain	Ezequiel Báez
Most caps	Rodolfo Arruabarrena, Javier Mascherano, and Oscar Ustari
Top scorer	Fernando Gatti and Hernán Peirone
FIFA code	ARG
First colours Second colours

Argentina national U-17 football team is the representative of Argentina within all FIFA sponsored tournaments that pertain to that age level.

Argentina has participated in 12 of the 15 FIFA U-17 World Cups in which finished in Third Place 3 times and Fourth once.Argentina also has won the South American Under-17 Football Championship 3 times.

Many of Argentina's top players came through the ranks of the U-17 teams, including Fernando Redondo, Nestor Fabbri, Roberto Bonano, Juan Sebastián Verón, Roberto Abbondanzieri, Franco Constanzo, Leonardo Biagini, Luciano Galletti, Marcelo Gallardo, Esteban Cambiasso, Gabriel Milito, Ezequiel González, Aldo Duscher, Lucas Biglia, Eduardo Salvio, Maxi López, Rodolfo Arruabarrena, Javier Mascherano and Carlos Tevez among others.

Honours

• South American Under-17 Football Championship
  • Winner (3): 1985, 2003, 2013
  • Runner-up (6): 1988, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2009, 2015
• FIFA U-17 World Cup
  • Third Place (3):1991, 1995, 2003

Current Squad

The following players were selected to compete in the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Manager: Miguel Ángel Lemme

0#0 Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club 1 1GK Franco Petroli (1998-06-11)11 June 1998 (aged 17) River Plate 2 2DF Julián Ferreyra (1998-04-22)22 April 1998 (aged 17) Argentinos Juniors 3 2DF Luis Olivera (1998-10-24)24 October 1998 (aged 16) River Plate 4 2DF Matías Escudero (1998-12-27)27 December 1998 (aged 16) Racing 5 3MF Julián Chicco (1998-01-13)13 January 1998 (aged 17) Boca Juniors 6 2DF Facundo Pardo (1998-08-12)12 August 1998 (aged 17) Newell's Old Boys 7 3MF Gianluca Mancuso (1998-02-03)3 February 1998 (aged 17) Vélez Sarsfield 8 3MF Pablo Enrique Ruíz (1998-12-20)20 December 1998 (aged 16) San Lorenzo 9 4FW Federico Vietto (1998-03-30)30 March 1998 (aged 17) Racing 10 3MF Exequiel Palacios (1998-10-05)5 October 1998 (aged 17) River Plate 11 4FW Lucas Ferraz Vila (1998-02-18)18 February 1998 (aged 17) River Plate 12 1GK Federico Bonansea (1998-03-13)13 March 1998 (aged 17) Belgrano 13 2DF Héctor David Martínez (1998-01-21)21 January 1998 (aged 17) River Plate 14 2DF Tiago Ruíz Díaz (1998-07-24)24 July 1998 (aged 17) Newell's Old Boys 15 2DF Juan Antonio Di Lorenzo (1998-07-06)6 July 1998 (aged 17) Independiente 16 3MF Lucas Pizzatti (1998-09-13)13 September 1998 (aged 17) Argentinos Juniors 17 4FW Germán Berterame (1998-11-13)13 November 1998 (aged 16) San Lorenzo 18 4FW Tomás Conechny (1998-03-30)30 March 1998 (aged 17) San Lorenzo 19 4FW Matias Roskopf (1998-01-14)14 January 1998 (aged 17) Boca Juniors 20 4FW Ricardo Rodríguez (1998-05-10)May 10, 1998 (aged 17) Universidad Católica 21 1GK Marcos Peano (1998-10-15)15 October 1998 (aged 17) Unión

See also

• Argentina national football team
• Argentina national under-20 football team
• South American Under-17 Football Championship