The style debate did not stop at Spain. At the headquarters of the Selection in South Africa just thought about Chile. Forest The team that was going to line up against the team of Bielsa. And in those, he sneaked into the party Diego Armando Maradona. So he was the Argentine coach and he drew attention for his statements rather than his approaches.
The Spanish internationals, with the technical staff at the head, were informed of what was happening in Spain and in the World Cup and what was said about them on the internet and by displaced television channels that provided their signal to the rooms of the Spanish expedition. But, according to the testimonies of the majority, what they liked most was getting information from AS, who searched for a printing press in Potchefstroom and made a daily print run of about 200 copies. It was published in a smaller format, similar to that of ABC, in dimensions and in which they put a staple. In that edition of AS that devoured each other, on June 24, they saw Maradona's words in a chronicle signed by Agustin Medina, pseudonym of the Argentine journalist Jorge Topo López, who began his collaboration in that World Cup and could not sign with his name.
The words were taken to a cover call in which he sent the photo of Xavi with the thumbs up and his defense of the tiqui hits. Inside it was in a half column signed by Agustín Medina: “During an interview in the privacy of the bunker, Diego Maradona shot Spain with AS as a witness to his statement:” I did not see the favorite team that was presented to me. With Xavi, with Iniesta, he lost with Switzerland 1 to 0 and it is not that they touched the ball … I will use a phrase from Negro Enrique: if the goals were on the side and not on one side and the other, Spain would have won 10 to 1 ha ha. They have it, they have it, they have it, but when are they going to attack? We showed that when I said that we did not deserve to lose against Spain, it was true, and they almost screwed up in Buenos Aires. Because they had the ball. But if we put them together with Di María, remember, we would have scored two goals difference and forget… “.
Maradona was the idol of many. By age they had not seen him play, but the song 'The Hand of God' of the Rodrigo Foal was one of those that sounded on the coach and the players' locker room from the Euro 2008, when they sang it to Of the network. For that song, which was still playing in the locker room in 2010, and for personal interest they had seen in the videos of Youtube that he Fluff He was one of the greatest in the history of football. But they did not recognize him in his role as coach or in his image at the time. Thus, The criticism of the tiqui taca and the horizontal soccer of Maradona served as motivation for the Spaniards facing the match against Chile. And for the rest of the World Cup.