Chapter 114: The Grass Team of a Third-Rate Coach

For the Argentine team, Degan really didn't take it very seriously. For example, the lineup of this game was actually created by Degan and Antiiennis. According to Degan, using this lineup to deal with Argentina has already Very face-saving.

As for Maradona's pre-match press conference, he said contempt, ignorance and other nonsense, that is not good or bad.

Now this Argentine team, to put it bluntly, the biggest loophole is Maradona.

Maradona is a great player, there is no doubt about it, but on the coaching bench, he is obviously much younger, not only from outsiders, but in fact from the day Maradona became the coach of the Argentine national team , Argentine fans are mixed.

The good news is that Argentina's idol of the century can finally be the coach of the national team, and coaching the national team is the only dream that Maradona has not been able to fulfill before.

The worry is that Maradona has a eccentric personality, willful indulgence, and does not meet the requirements of a national team coach as a football power. In addition, Maradona's previous coaching performance is also quite bad.

On the court, Maradona is a well-deserved king, but on the bench, Maradona's previous performance was quite bad.

On October 3, 1994, Maradona started his first coaching experience. At that time, he coached the Argentine Mandiyu team. Since the old horse did not have a coaching certificate, he coached the team with his former teammate Foran.

However, in two months and twelve games, Maradona's team only scored a measly nine points. Maradona and Foran left the team sadly. The team was also relegated to the second division. disappear.

Since then, Maradona and Foran took over the Argentine Athletic team. This time, the situation is still not good. Maradona dismissed get out of class after leading the team to play eleven games. The team beat Boca Juniors. Eleven games, only two victories.

But such a third-rate coach got the opportunity to coach the Argentine national team. Of course, the level of the national team players is much higher, and perhaps there is more room for Maradona to display his talents.

But obviously, even the Argentine Football Association is not very assured of Maradona, so he arranged for the 86 World Cup champion coach Bilardo to assist Maradona.

However, the joint leadership system is actually a double-edged sword. For example, the responsibilities of Maradona and Bilardo have not been fully distinguished. If the coaching staff can work together, the collective wisdom will be infinite, but if all parties If the opinions and interests of the parties cannot be coordinated, the national team will instead have civil strife, and the collective leadership will also lead to collective chaos.

Although Bilardo said that the selection of players and the formulation of tactics are up to Maradona himself, but the existence of Bilardo's "supervisor" itself is a manifestation of not 100% trust in Maradona.

Of course, with Maradona's contribution to Argentine football, he is fully worthy of the reward of the national team coach. However, Maradona's previous coaching career was very unsuccessful, and he has not coached the team for 13 years.

Even some Maradona fans believe that the old horse should not be the coach at all, because being the coach means facing the cusp of the storm. The old horse is the spiritual pillar of Argentine football and has been deified, which means that the old horse takes office It's all-or-nothing, only success, not failure. This kind of pressure is too great for the entire Argentine football. If the old horse falls, I am afraid that Argentine football will be in a downturn for a long time. This is the last thing that all Argentine fans want to see of.

There is no doubt that Maradona, who plays football, is a god, but as a coach, he is really not flattering, and he is completely inferior. The last time he was dismissed from the coaching bench, he has not seen any improvement in any media, or progress.

However, Maradona also has his own advantages. One is his huge influence. As a hero in the hearts of Argentines and an idol in the hearts of Argentine players, his appeal is beyond doubt.

After Maradona took office, he said that he wanted to instill patriotism in the Argentine national team, and he wanted Argentine players to find their love for the blue and white jerseys, which the Argentine national team has lacked in recent years.

In addition, Maradona's ability to integrate the team is also worthy of recognition. Argentina does not lack good players, but what it lacks is a good coach who can unite the team, and Maradona has this kind of cohesion.

Bielsa, Pekerman, and Basile all have some problems in locker room management, and Maradona will encounter much less resistance when dealing with this problem.

In addition, Maradona also has some new ideas in terms of team tactics. For example, on the use of Messi, he said that he should not put too much pressure on Messi, and he should liberate Messi from the heavy sense of responsibility. , must give Messi more freedom to let him fully enjoy the game.

When Maradona took over the team, the Argentine team had just defeated Chile in the World Cup South American qualifiers. This was unacceptable to the Argentines. The head coach Basile submitted his resignation. It's hard to manage. The Argentine Football Association accepted the resignation of the old coach. He is eager to find a coach who is highly respected, can control the team, and can restore the confidence of Argentine fans. In the minds of the Argentines, the biggest hero is of course Maradona, so Maradona is here.

After Maradona took office, he soon ushered in his first game. He was a guest at Hampton Park Stadium to challenge Scotland. Coincidentally, it was on this stadium 19 years ago that Maradona scored his own goal. The first goal of the national team.

Messi, Aguero and Riquelme did not participate in this game. Ma Dashuai unexpectedly used a conservative double midfielder formation, and finally got a good start with a 1-0 goal by Maxi Rodriguez.

The start was good, people were very happy, but the honeymoon period ended soon, and the Argentine football world ushered in a big shock**. In an interview with the TV station, Maradona criticized Riquelme's performance at the club and said: He was asked to make changes, and Riquelme responded by announcing his retirement from the national team.

Of course, Maradona will not admit his mistakes humbly, his countermeasure is to deal with toughness with super toughness, and immediately stated that he will never use Riquelme.

In such an atmosphere, Maradona ushered in his first international competition week after taking office. In the first official game, he defeated Venezuela 4-0 at home, making Maradona's reputation reach its peak, but only four days later , Tragedy happened. Maradona, who thought too much of himself, fought against Bolivia in La Paz away on the plateau. As a result, he was bloodbathed by his opponent 6:1, creating the most humiliating defeat in 51 years. The news came and shocked the whole country.

This defeat greatly touched Maradona's self-esteem. He determined that Argentina's problem was psychological and began to try to recruit unknown players on a large scale.

In the warm-up match with domestic players as the team, Argentina defeated Panama 3:1, and Maradona made up his mind to reuse the Argentine local league players.

After the resumption of the World Cup qualifiers, Argentina first defeated Colombia at home with a goal from defender Diaz, and then lost again away, losing to Ecuador 0:2.

After the game, the Argentine media began to doubt the correctness of choosing Maradona to coach for the first time. Maradona, as always, expressed his confidence.

Since then, with Aguero's brave performance, Argentina reversed away and defeated Russia in the warm-up match, boosting morale in preparation for the strong matchup against Brazil at home.

But when the Brazilians really arrived, Ma's army was sluggish again. They lost 1:3 at home, and then lost 0:1 to Paraguay in the away game. Messi, who has continued to perform poorly, has also encountered fierce criticism.

At this juncture, Maradona actually chose to leave Argentina and go to Italy for weight loss treatment, which aroused strong dissatisfaction from the Argentine Football Association.

Before the final two World Cup qualifiers, Maradona once again clashed with the Football Association. He publicly criticized Bilardo in the press conference for not fulfilling his duties and not traveling to England in time to bring Zabaleta back. As a result, the latter was injured and unable to participate in the competition. The angry old man almost suffered from brain congestion at that time, so he just quit.

In the first match against Peru, with Palermo's magical goal at the last moment, Argentina won 2:1 with difficulty, taking the initiative of qualifying in their own hands.

In the final away game against Uruguay, the Centennial Stadium in Mondevia has never been a blessed place for the Argentine team. Before that life-and-death battle started, the Tango Legion had a record of 1 win, 3 draws and 6 losses as a guest here. However, at that time, Argentina In front of the team, or in front of Maradona, there are really few choices. If he does not directly advance to the away game, there may be some extreme fans who will send Diego and his disciples a star. grenade.

The atmosphere before the game was very tense, and the environment was very depressing during the match. The home team was not as good as the previous opponent Peru, and Uruguay, which also drank the water of the Rio de la Plata, also needed a victory.

Therefore, even though the Argentine team had sent peerless gifts to Uruguay in the 2002 World Preliminaries and the 2006 World Preliminaries when Uruguay was in urgent need of points and the team had already qualified, but at the Centennial Stadium, the Uruguayans did not have any capital to return friendship. Until the 83rd minute Borati scored the ice-breaking goal, Maradona and his Argentina team were still on the edge of the razor.

1:0!

The Argentine made an away victory as he wished. If the meaning of that game can be analyzed after many years, it may not be an exaggeration to elevate its concept to any level. For Maradona at the time, when the final whistle At the moment when the buzzer rang, did he recall the moment in 1986 when he won the World Cup from the favorites of Avelan on the podium of the Azteca Stadium?

Maybe not, because he is Maradona, a person who never believes that he can only live in the past, a football boss who firmly believes that he can keep pace with the times, a believer in Satan, and a person who dares to talk to God The guy who made a bet and became the winner.

"We qualified for the World Cup like men, but I'm sure the media will continue to insult me in the future, but we have to fight until the end, it doesn't matter what those motherfuckers say! We fuck you !"

Diego's post-match speech was as voluptuous as ever, and completely expressed an emotion that was completely relieved after being extremely depressed. In addition to yelling at those BS's own media reporters, the spiritual wizard of the Argentine team once again uttered his magical spell: "I let them attack, and they can attack. I let them control the ball. They can handle the ball, I let them explode and they explode!"

If you are a fan who has never watched the game, after hearing this speech from Maradona, the picture that emerges in your mind must be very wonderful. The opponent must have been beaten by the Tango Legion just like Sun Tzu.

However, is this really the case?

Looking at the statistics of that game, it is not difficult to find that, apart from becoming the winner of the game result, the Argentine team basically has nothing to boast about.

Winning, everything is justified, the Argentine people can save the national curses prepared in advance for later use, but the headline "End His Pain" of the largest media in Argentina, the "Clarion", is enough to show that Ma Although Radona's journey to the world preliminaries as the head coach has a happy ending, what he left for Argentine fans is a rather bad and painful memory.

Inexplicable adjustments to the formation style of play, recruitment of international players such as the Super Girl draft, n times of organization core changes, excessive ignorance of European stars, and nearly 50% of Messi's martial arts. These are all done by Maradona Single-handedly concocted.

Therefore, no matter from which angle you look at it, don't look at the fact that the old horse's victory in this game has the meaning of nirvana, but in fact many fundamental problems of the Argentine team have not been solved. Still can not be resolved, in 2010 in South Africa, the Argentine team will definitely make more fools.

After successfully qualifying, Maradona scolded the Argentine reporter who criticized him, but obviously, this cannot change the fact. Argentina did win, but it was an ugly win. It can even be said that it escaped under the blessing of the goddess of luck.

Throughout the game, Boratti's shot from Argentina was considered a bit of a threat, but if Uruguay were lucky, they could score two goals in the first half.

However, fortunately, the Argentine team finally won that game.

If this is a World Cup final, you can ignore all the process and praise the greatness of Maradona to your heart's content, but it is only a World Cup qualifier. Argentina is still far away from the finish line with piles of honors. People have to care about this former giant Running posture, in fact, Argentina's passiveness in the game has long been expected. Just look at the lineup. There are four central defenders, midfielder Veron and Mascherano are double midfielders, and right midfielder Gu Tierrez is also a defensive champion. The only Di Maria who can support the striker is firmly restricted. Messi has to retreat to the center circle to get the ball. Higuain's strength lies in his excellent impact, but the midfield players are Frequently kick the ball to his head.

The world preliminaries against the Uruguayans was Maradona's eighth qualifier. Compared with Peru, Maradona made three personnel adjustments, replacing Aimar with Veron and Pere with Otamendi. In this way, in the eight games, Maradona has made a total of 30 adjustments to the lineup, only Messi and Heinze have been consistent from beginning to end, and Even for the two of them, the positions were constantly changing. Messi played right winger for a while, forward for a while, and right midfielder for a while, while Heinze switched back and forth between left back and center back.

The direct result of this is that Argentina has no cooperation and tacit understanding at all. Messi and Mascherano, who have performed bravely in the club, have never been able to find the feeling, and even the worse they play, the more players on the court rely on themselves. Instinct is playing football.

Some people say that the problem in Argentina is that the players don't even have time to train together, but in fact, even if they are given a month to practice together before each game, it still can't solve the problem, because next month Maradona won. What comes out is another set of things. The position of the players is strange, and the partners around them are also strange.

It's not a crime to play ugly. Dunga's Brazil also played ugly, but at least he knew what he wanted and pursued, and successfully won the Copa America and got the World Cup tickets in advance, but Marado Na, however, did not have a clear idea and did not know what he was pursuing. One day he could hold high the banner of attack, and the next day he hoped to win an Italian-style victory.

After winning the game against Uruguay, Maradona's coaching position is once again stable. Although there have been many rumors against him, unless he resigns himself, I am afraid that nothing can stop him after 16 years. Back to the World Cup.

People can only hope that Maradona will suddenly open up, listen carefully to his opinions, and bring stability to Argentina, but judging from the past, this is much more difficult than beating Uruguay in an away game.

It is undeniable that Argentina's main lineup is weaker than Germany's World Cup. Except for Messi and Mascherano who are at their peak, several key players are on the decline. Ayala resigned. Zanetti's defense continued to fail today. People, Gago became a fringe man in Real Madrid, former teammate Heinze has been exiled to Ligue 1, Maxi was deprived of the captain's armband in Atletico Madrid, Veron's Copa Libertadores is more like a flashback, and he was taken away by Madrid. Gutierrez, who Radona considers to be the team's third key man, is now playing in the British Championship.

Of course, Maradona's own responsibilities are difficult to shirk. Cambiasso and Samuel, who played smoothly in Inter Milan, were never favored by him. Even after Demichelis was injured and absent, the old horse Still ignoring the existence of "rocks".

Cambiasso has long been proven to be able to effectively balance the midfield. Under Pekerman and Basile, they are the absolute main players. However, the old horse does not believe in evil and never recruits the cornerstone of the championship, which is regarded as a treasure by Mourinho. As a result, In the end, veterans such as Veron and Palermo became life-saving straws and asked for trouble.

If there are players of similar level, it's fine for Lao Ma not to use them. The problem is that most of the domestic players he selected are not up to the standard of the national team. With the current capacity of the European football market, how many leftovers can remain in the Argentine League. ?

As for the goalkeeper position, although Andujar and Romero went to Europe, one defected to the underdogs in Serie A, and the other worked hard in the Eredivisie. They are both second- and third-rate teams in Europe. Dunga was worrying about who to use at right back, but the old horse couldn't even find half of Maicon Alves.

There were rumors in the Argentine media that some player agents and clubs bought international football places from Maradona, with a view to promoting the players and reselling them after gold-plated. The former Brazilian coach Luxenberg did this. The rumors cannot be confirmed, but Andujar and Otamendi can be selected by European clubs, obviously thanks to the status of the international player given by the old horse, the latter has also had rumors with Real Madrid. But ducks can't fly even if they wear wings. For example, Datolo, who played well in the last game, has a prototype in this game. Messi's overnight fame is rare after all.

The most incomprehensible thing is Maradona's use of Messi. Although he once said when he took office that he should decompress Messi and let him play easily, in fact, Maradona is Use Messi as a panacea, Messi is very brilliant in Barcelona, but Argentina's Messi is probably just a shadow of Barcelona's Messi.

In the World Cup, they beat South Korea in the first game. For a while, Maradona seemed to have found the feeling of a famous coach, but in the second game against Nigeria, which was disabled by Belgium, Argentina had nothing to do. If it wasn't for Nigerian goalkeeper Enyeya Ma made a reckless attack and made a mistake. Perhaps Argentina can only fight a life-and-death battle with Belgium now.

After the 1-0 victory over Nigeria, there were comments from the Argentine domestic media that the current Argentine team is a "three-no team"-the head coach has no level, the players have no sense of responsibility, and the team has no strategy.

When Belgium announced the lineup, Maradona was still yelling, you look down on people, Farke, Schett, obviously people will not take into account Maradona's dissatisfaction.

Because everyone thinks that facing Argentina like this and a grassroots team led by a third-rate head coach, it is very kind of Belgium to come up with this lineup to play with you.

After all, the big man Digan didn't stand in the goalkeeper's position!

isn't it?

Back on the field, today Maradona is still wearing the dirty gray suit, which sets off his bloated figure, which looks a little ridiculous, standing on the sidelines with a big belly, looking a little nervous.

What about Antiienis on the other side?

Although many people think that he owes his current achievements to Degan, but looking at his calm appearance, it is not difficult to feel what a famous coach is.

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