Vote for Diego!

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Diego might not be the best option for NT coach. but Basile MUST GO!
Diego has the tactical vision few in the world could rival.
Franz Beckenbauer got his shot, Johan Cruijff had his chance. Isn't it only fair if we let Diego Maradona have what he deserved? Please, honor our hero. choose "Si".


This isn't about whether maradona is fit to coach the NT, it's about making changes. He's the only one able to gain certain tactical freedom from AFA.
Or Coco will just keep sitting there and keep taking orders from Grondona.

As explained by Diego, it's impossible to install a technical assistant position on Basile's Panel. He is the kind of person not to take advise from any tactician. If Diego can replace him, we'll have the Olympic to evaluate his ability to coach the NT. If he isn't fit enough there can still be further switches. The important issue here is, this move will kick Basile out of the office and initiate changes.
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The Words of Maradona

To be technician of the Selection: “My time is now. I do not want to push anybody and it is necessary to calmly work it out with Coco. Perhaps it'll never happen. I did well. I recovered, and I had 22 lions to go to the field with me, but it didn't happen”.

Reflection on Copa America: “To arrive at final stage and unable to achieve the goal is becoming common to us and it hurts us all”.

Final with Brazil: “In last World Cup, we had a restricted force. In this Copa America we played very well and in the end the system was broken down again. We took the best players. Pekereman didn't take Zanetti so he was chosen too… Brazil devastated us with perhaps a B squad, left us like cripples. We didn't have an answer to the Brazilian goals, only a shot from Riquelme that hit the wood. It was a total victory for Dunga”.

The Argentine players: “Players are with too much responsibilities. There's always contract issues with our players when we go into a competition. During the World Cup Riquelme ('s head) went here or there. Messi's mind was in Barcelona. Now in the Copa America it happened again. Tevez was thinking about West Ham, Liverpool, and Manchester. This is what the player have in their head during the campaign. The players have computer, have newspapers, and the media wants to request a press conference every 10 minutes”.

The concentration: “To have the concentration when playing a match is important. Everything else must be forgotten. Only to think about Brazil, only to think about Paraguay… Coco handled that well except the last match. He was too confident because he won all the games before that. Until one lifts the cup, he's nobody's champion”.

Jack, this is what we discussed:
The possibility of a Technical Secretary in the Selection: “With the personality of Coco, he won't listen to anybody. If Grondona wants to put a technical commissioner to improve small things that's seen on television… I do not know, instead of training Basile it trained Ribolzi… I believe that Basile is not going to want support. Unless we have the resignation of Coco, Grondona will continue sending him”.

The trainer vocation: “I say that I have many desire to direct. I said that he had many desire. Grondona said to me after Serbia and Montenegro match where we gave him 6 goals, 'if Pekerman wouldn't stay longer then the Selection was mine.' But I returned here and seems that he lost my telephone number. They did not call. They called every 5 minutes to speak with Claudia. Until I went to see Boca one day and Pompilio told me briefly that I could win the Argentina Selection. ****** to me, I said to him”.

The Argentine level: “I believe that we are good. We have the quality. We're best when we win. When the blood boil in us, when the heart beats faster than it could, there I believe that we are best. Long time we've been moral champions. But the moral champions do not gain Cups”.

The comparison with Brazil: “Brazil was always right there. We always had to fight them. And we always were so obstinate that we went there to fight Brazil. We always went to goad them, in the Amaracaná or anywhere, even when we kept failing on the pitch. To lose to Brazil has been like an anticipated end since the 90s. To win against them is something that would inflate our chests”.

The branching of the Argentine players: “Messi we did not see him play in any Argentine team. There are players who went away for a long time and today we see them like figures. We did not see the splendor of the Verón Witch in Argentina. We had Riquelme in a Copa Libertadores for Boca and they won, but because he had problems with Villarreal...”.

In defense of Ayala and Verón: “If they think that Ayala is guilty for the goal in the Brazil match, they are stupid. And Verón played very acceptable in Copa America. Always supporting Roman, always surely”.

Boca and the Apertura: “Boca is not candidate to the title… I'm not surprised. They did not play the last match well and I am worried. Hopefully the problems of Riquelme will be solved for good because the team needs him… I imagine if they get him and defend better then we will have a championship by few points”