The Maradona show

Maradona was always protagonist in the World Cups how soccer player: sent off against Brazil in '82, champion in '86, runner-up in '90 and a cause for scandal due to his positive in '94. But there was one more chapter to write, one that started in the mythical Ellis Park in Johannesburg. Sixteen years after stepping on a World Cup stadium, the Fluff sat on the bench in Argentina to lead your country already Messi.

Diego, in a suit and tie gray, with white shirt, was a show. He did not sit for a single moment and was as expressive in the band as he was on the field. He lamented the missed opportunities and celebrated Heinze's goal, the only goal of the match, when the match had only just begun. The whirlwind what it meant to see Maradona again in a World Cup eclipsed everything else.

Until get to that moment the controversy had once again engulfed Diego. Just a month before traveling to South Africa, it became known that Never I had made the coach course in the Technicians Association, despite having been enrolled in the AFA records for seven years and managing Albicelste since 2008. Only 26 days before his debut against Nigeria he was graduated from an informal and impromptu ceremony at the home of his assistant, Mancuso.

The general secretary of the Technicians Association, Victorio Nicolas Cocco, was the one who made his permit official, although for the most was a gift. “It is very difficult for a personality like him to have time to go to classes“he justified.

Without experience

Until reaching the Argentina bench, Maradona had led 12 games for the modest Deportivo Mandiyú de Corrientes and four months for Racing in the mid-1990s. Fifteen years later, he was on his way again to try to lead Argentina to its third World Cup… A show, pure Diego.