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Marcelo Saracchi has earned the trust of his Uruguay boss Marcelo Bielsa.
And Saracchi’s positioning under club manager Brendan Rodgers may now play a key role in a huge period for Celtic .
As the club’s support got lost in the fog of clamour for wingers and strikers in the last week of the painful transfer window, the 27-year-old’s arrival on a season-long loan from Boca Juniors was somewhat clouded.
However, Saracchi has rapidly made his worth clear to such an extent Bielsa put him straight back into the national team for wins over Dominican Republic and Uzbekistan – and lobbed him the armband for game one.
Naturally, he’ll return to Glasgow with confidence sky high having said: “Playing for the national team is a beautiful thing and being captain is