Matías Manna is the video ****** yst for the Argentina national team, so the message he sent about an Albiceleste tradition carries even more weight coming from him.
“An asado is better than 20 video sessions,” Manna said last year in an interview with Argentine newspaper Página 12. A former tactics blogger in love with the x’s and o’s of soccer, the Lionel Scaloni ****** istant still recognizes the importance of the human side of the game.
In Argentina, nurturing that human side often includes getting together to eat meat.
Argentina has a tradition of enjoying an asado after every win, which requires a lot of beef - and some chicken, which goalkeeper Emi “Dibu” Martinez jokingly branded “light cows” in a video he posted to social media. Chef Diego Iacovone has 500 kilograms pounds (more than 1,100 pounds) of meat imported from Argentina at his disposal.
As is tradition in Argentina, the various parts of the cow on offer make up a huge part of the discussion. "Today we have sausage, chicken, steak, vacío, ribeye and Anto is going to throw on a skirt steak," Iacovone tells Martinez in the video, referencing chef Antonia Farías. Provoleta, an appetizer of grilled provolone cheese with spices, also is on offer.