mrmojorisin75 Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 it was surely the worst managerial appointment in many, many years at international level anyway, if not the worst ever the equivalent of giving Gazza the England job just after his playing days had finished Messi must be mortified that he's essentially been fucked over in 2 world cups now by awful, awful management (on a personal level that is) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 it was surely the worst managerial appointment in many, many years at international level anyway, if not the worst ever the equivalent of giving Gazza the England job just after his playing days had finished Messi must be mortified that he's essentially been fucked over in 2 world cups now by awful, awful management (on a personal level that is) He got them to the World Cup though when they were in major danger of not doing so, albeit it could be argued that was not much to do with him, it was never going to work on the big stage though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 it was surely the worst managerial appointment in many, many years at international level anyway, if not the worst ever the equivalent of giving Gazza the England job just after his playing days had finished Messi must be mortified that he's essentially been fucked over in 2 world cups now by awful, awful management (on a personal level that is) He got them to the World Cup though when they were in major danger of not doing so, albeit it could be argued that was not much to do with him, it was never going to work on the big stage though. you don't think a better manager would have pissed them through qualification compared to the dogs dinner he made of it? he didn't have a clue what he was doing as i recall it, picking hundreds of players and changing things every game a semi-competent manager would have utilised their talent much better than he ever could Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 it was surely the worst managerial appointment in many, many years at international level anyway, if not the worst ever the equivalent of giving Gazza the England job just after his playing days had finished Messi must be mortified that he's essentially been fucked over in 2 world cups now by awful, awful management (on a personal level that is) He got them to the World Cup though when they were in major danger of not doing so, albeit it could be argued that was not much to do with him, it was never going to work on the big stage though. you don't think a better manager would have pissed them through qualification compared to the dogs dinner he made of it? he didn't have a clue what he was doing as i recall it, picking hundreds of players and changing things every game a semi-competent manager would have utilised their talent much better than he ever could A so called better manager (Basile) wasn't doing much better pre-Maradona in the earlier qualifiers. He was brought in to get them qualification which he achieved. He used a fair few players but that has been massively skewed by the press as he has called up solely South American based players for friendlies etc. As i said next manager they appoint has a big job ahead of him, as Argentina have a ridiculous number of talented players and the chance to win the Copa on home soil espcially with Brasil potentially in a period of transisition. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 Hope it's the last we see of him. Agreed - obviously SOMEONE at the AFA has a degree of sanity.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ujpest doza Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 he wasn't sacked. he was offered a 4 year contract but some of his coaching staff weren't so he resigned on a point of principal as he wanted to keep all of his backroom team together. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cunning_Linguist Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 he wasn't sacked. he was offered a 4 year contract but some of his coaching staff weren't so he resigned on a point of principal as he wanted to keep all of his backroom team together. This much is true. Basically, He was offered a contract but he said that he would only sign if he kept ALL of his backroom staff but the Argentine FA were not up for that deal so he just refused the contract. Pretty good record at international level though but i am sure he will be Argentina's manager again at some point. Lets face it, his little spell as Manager is probably keeping him in Coke for a few years . . . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newcastle Fan Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 His staff looked like his drug dealers tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 I've noticed there's no Otamendi in the Argie squad, so looks as if Coloccini's replaced him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridman Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/soccer/08/12/veron.maradona.ap/index.html?eref=si_soccer&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/si_soccer+%28SI.com+-+Soccer%29 Find it a bit funny that Veron is the one criticizing him seeing how no other coach in the world would have picked Veron for the world cup squad, let alone let him start. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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