After the serious accident suffered by striker Salvador Cabanas, who was shot some time ago in a bar in Mexico City, the selection of Paraguay has suffered a major gap, not only in their squad for the World Cup, but especially in its possible starting lineup.
There, therefore, will the Chava not Cabañas, but the coach Gerardo Martino had kept an ace up its sleeve. It was Lucas Barrios, Argentina-born striker who triumphed in football in Chile and has made this last season in the great feeling of the Bundesliga Borussia Dortmund. Barrios has naturalized Paraguayan and be with them in the World Cup.