4 Jul
Sad Maradona considers quitting
Diego Maradona has admitted he is considering his future as Argentina coach after his side were brutally dumped out of the World Cup by Germany.
“I may leave tomorrow,” he said after their 4-0 quarter-final defeat.
“I’ll have to think carefully about it, and talk with my family and the players. There are many issues here.”
Maradona, who led Argentina to World Cup glory in 1986 as a player, said that “whoever comes after me” must follow the team’s attacking style.
But that commitment to going forward was easily nullified by Germany as the Europeans defended with complete commitment before breaking forward swiftly and effectively on the counter-attack.
Argentina striker Carlos Tevez admitted as much, and offered no excuses after a disjointed performance in Cape Town in which Fifa’s world player of the year Lionel Messi was frequently reduced to collecting the ball from his centre-backs.
“There’s nothing we can say about their win,” said Tevez after Argentina suffered their worst World Cup defeat in 52 years.
“To lose like that is very painful. We played badly and sometimes when you make mistakes you go home.”
The Manchester City striker added: “We knew it would be complicated and that they wouldn’t let us attack.
“They did what we knew they were capable of doing. We knew they could be dangerous on set-pieces and on the counter-attack.”
Maradona was derided in Argentina before the tournament for leading the team by instinct and emotion rather than paying attention to a tactical plan, or the opposition’s strengths.
Much of that criticism was washed away with four straight wins in South Africa, but it may now rear its head after Germany easily exposed the individual rather than collective nature of his side’s play.
“I’m as disappointed as all Argentines,” he said. “To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.”
When asked whether he was satisfied with the team’s performance against Germany, Maradona added: “Are you joking?
“This is a country where you live and breathe football. I don’t think that anybody will be happy when the team loses 4-0.”
Monday afternoon, the designated assembly before the game Real Madrid Hotels – Mira chayla hotel security was tight, journalists like clouds. Real Madrid to go to at 20:30 to arrive at the hotel, how the landscape will appear This time, around 15:30, a large bus parked in front of the hotel, it was found to go down that Argentina’s national team coach Diego Maradona , there are several end of the race, ahead of the players arrived, such as Inter Milan’s Esteban Cambiasso.
“And Maradona together, it was a night full of passion, very romantic … very memorable … … …” The Italian media had reported that one day enough to shock the entire international football coverage, not only because Pu materials are a popular Uruguayan singer Natalia – Rosas (Natalia Rosas), is more important is nag the “one-night stand” in time of the incident between Uruguay and Argentina in World Cup tickets for South Africa staged battle of life and death the night. Moreover, let Maradona bowed under its Dan Liuqun Natalia until this year but just 20 years old.