A Lesson For Diego Maradona

Pin It Now! Diego Maradona, the Coach of the Argentine national team, crashed his team out of the 2010 FIFA world cup at the quarter finals stage, losing to Germany in such a scandalous way. His highly rated team lost by a whopping 4-0 to the Germany soccer machines, putting an abrupt end to his bragging and utter display of disrespect to other coaches and legends of the game of soccer.

Coach Diego Maradona had boasted he would win the world cup, and that he would go naked in public if he didn’t. Surprisingly, when he finally crashed in such a humiliating fashion, the world waited patiently for him to strip himself naked in public, but he refused to honour his words.

I am sure that by now, he has understood that football is not a game of verbosity; rather it is a game of skills, tactics and careful plan. He had failed to prove himself as he had challenged the legendry Pele to prove his rating as a legend, by winning the world cup as the coach of the Brazilian National Team. He went to the world cup with the best team on paper, comprising great soccer stars like Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain, Diego Milito, Carlos Tevez, Angel De Maria etc, and many soccer followers had given the world cup to him based on the strength of his team.

However, one thing a lot of people failed to remember was that Maradona had qualified his team for the soccer fiesta only on the very last day of qualifiers. They also forgot that Argentina got their worst result in 60 years during his time, by losing 6-1 to little known Bolivia, during the qualifiers. What this amounts to therefore, is that Argentina did not get to the quarter finals because their coach was too good; they only used their individual skills to survive to that stage. And when they met a more technically sound team, they had no choice but to bow out.

If he had gone to the world cup as the coach of teams like North Korea, Cameroon, Nigeria, Australia, Algeria, etc. and had met Germany, perhaps his team would have lost by up to 12-0, if he could lose by 4-0 with a stars-studded Argentine team. Perhaps one of the reasons the Germans were so merciless was because of the uncontrolled utterances he had made before they met.

Coach Maradona should go back to a coaching school to improve upon his tactics, because football is advancing daily; so he should not depend on his exploits of Mexico ‘86 as a player, to coach in the current dispensation. Besides, he should learn to control his mouth and give respect to those who deserve to be respected. Pele still remains the greatest, with over 1,000 goals and two world cup titles as a player. He knows why he has not decided to take up a coaching job; his personal opinion should be respected.

A Lesson For Diego Maradona