Diego Maradona greatest football player questions with answers
Recently criticized by Louis Van Gaal, ambitious, rude and unpredictable, Diego Armando Maradona is probably the World Cup's most famous coach and personality.
Is Maradona a coach now?
Diego Maradona has been and will always be a player. To play on the field is what he's built for. This spirit is stronger than him and you see it the way he acts as a coach. When he is coaching games with no outcomes (e.g his first game as a coach against Scotland and a friendly game against France in Marseille), he is serious and stoic and seems very focused. As soon as the game counts for something, as in the World Cup qualifiers, he is quickly agitated. He seems to live every minute of the game. During the World Cup, he will probably be able to keep his cool for the first few games but as the games pass by, his anxiety will go up. He calls himself a coach, he plays the role of a coach but he's still a player.
Does Maradona have a game plan for Argentina?
During the World Cup qualifiers, Diego Maradona had a specific idea that he wanted for Argentina. With all the travelling involved for the regulars of the team coming from Europe, Maradona wanted a solid defensive team made up of warriors. He decided on a strong 4-man defense with Javier Mascherano in front of them, symbolically Mascherano is also the team's captain. He added Juan Sebastian Veron as a ''playmaker'' with two quick wingers on the side: Di Maria on the left and Jonas Gutierrez on the right. Up front, he will be playing with two strikers: Lionel Messi and Gonzalo Higuain. At that time, he was trying to find a quick fix for a team that was having trouble to come together as a group. Things might change with a full month of preparation before the World Cup. The latest tendencies might see Argentina play a 3-4-3 or a 4-3-3 if he wants to play Messi, Tevez and Milito in the same line.
When did Maradona really want to become a coach?
Diego Armando Maradona is after all a passionate football fan. After retiring from professional soccer, he logically turned to a career as a coach. His experience and knowledge for the game and the players are one of his great assets. For a long time, his drug addictions and health issues prevented him from taking over a team of status. No one would have given him a team with his low health and off-pitch problems. After a clean bill of health, the opportunity came. When Coco Basile quit, Maradona started an intense lobbying campaign to get the job. Julio Grondo, president of the Argentinean Football Association, hired Maradona as Argentina's manager. That choice was not only made because of his experience but the Maradona's popularity gives a lot of visibility for the Argentinean Federation.
Most of the players respect Maradona. He is the country's idol, a legend in Argentina and he a few players in the national team have tattoos of him. His star players are close to him because they will listen to him. He is constantly reminding them that he understands them and he is one of them. He had already won the World Cup and he is promising them to take them to the promised goal. What will happen if Argentina has a difficult start at the World Cup? What if he makes illogical choices? Maradona knows that the local media will be all over him but he is confident in his leaders to lead the team through turmoil and uncertainty.
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