How http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Batista-c7379 differs from Diego Maradona as a coach (Part 1)
The Argentinean squad was considered one of the favourite to win the FIFA World Cup 2010. This wasn’t only because of the solid attacking line-up that they had, but also because of their “fans’ favourite” coach, Diego Maradona.
The Argentinean legend was making a return in the Argentinean national team; though, his plans were not to serve the country on the pitch, but off it. The scorer of the best goal in the history of the FIFA World Cups, decided to coach the Argentinean national team. The South American Giants barely qualified for the FIFA World Cup and Maradona managed to keep his http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/South-Africa-c757.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Diego-Maradona-c11160 was severely criticised about his selection in the global football tournament as he decided to drop numerous experienced and important players.
The outstanding Inter Milan centre back, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Javier-Zanetti-c18096 was dropped from the first team despite playing an extraordinary season with the Italian club. The Inter Milan star featured in 55 games during the season which was played before the FIFA World Cup 2010. He showed great consistency but Diego Maradona chose to play Jonas Gutierrez; a left footed midfielder, in place of Zanetti and it later cost the Argentinean side, a lot of games.
Another Inter Milan star player, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Inter-c39567 Milan win the UEFA Champions League just the season before the FIFA World Cup 2010 started.
Esteban Cambiasso was a consistent performer under Jose Mourinho and there was no reason for a player of his calibre to be dropped out of a team that really needed to strengthen its defensive side.
The Argentinean squad had a great attacking line-up but their main defensive inspiration was the Inter Milan centre back http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Walter-Samuel-c36618. However, he took an early blow in the competition and due to lack of depth in the defensive line-up of the team, Argentina suffered later on.
With an extraordinary attacking line-up, the Argentineans managed to get through the group stages of the tournament. Even though the performances given by the Argentinean team were outstanding but none of the oppositions facing them were challenging enough to prove that they were well deserving of winning the competition.
The South American Giants then faced http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Argentina-c2841 qualified for the quarter final stage.
Argentina had to face the impressive Germans who had bombarded all the oppositions which fell in their way. Among the teams who lost to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Germany-c2904 was the English side who were knocked out of the pre quarter final stage after a humiliating 4-1 defeat to the Germans.
When the time was there for Diego Maradona to prove himself as the perfect coach, he failed to impress. With Walter Samuel out because of injury, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jonas-c18967 Gutierrez playing as a right back, the Germans wasted no time in exploiting the Argentinean back four. It took them less than five minutes to score the first goal which later turned out to be a 4-0 riot for the South Americans.
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