The first African national team to guarantee its place in the next World Cup (apart from South Africa, of course), will visit Argentina to play a friendly in the city of Córdoba.
With this not being an official FIFA international date, both Argentina and Ghana will be using players that are not part of their main team. I mean...I don't believe Ghana will come with stars such as Michael ESSIEN or Sulley MUNTARI as I don't think Chelsea or Inter will let those players leave for such an irrelevant friendly.
In case of Argentina, it means only players from the local league will be called.
Ariel ORTEGA looks set to make a comeback and the list is yet to be announced. Martín PALERMO and Rolando SCHIAVI too. That's 107 years between the three of them, but in this case, since it's not a World Cup Qualifier and all it matters is to draw some attention and sell some tickets, I don't think it is too bad for them to play. After all, this is an irrelevant match.
The bad thing is that I fear that if any of those players (or others that are clearly not up for the challenge in the international stage) have a good game against Ghana, will probably confuse MARADONA even more and they may have a role against Perú and/or Uruguay.
In other news...it appears that all it is needed at this stage is the official announcement, but the decision of facing Perú in the Estadio Monumental after the experiment of Rosario is reportedly already taken.
Also...I hear that with the exception of Brazil-Bolivia in the next round and Perú-Bolivia in the final round, all the other matches will be played at the same time -to avoid suspicions or conspiracy theories-.
http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain/2009/09/17/1505949/guardiola-sought-to-replace-maradona-as-argentina-coach
ReplyDeletewhat you think about this?
I tihink it is great news, allthough, i belive, that barcelona will never let him go
It will be great to see Ariel Ortega play in thr last 2 qualifers.
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ReplyDeleteVeron queries Diego selections
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12026_5563823,00.html
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ReplyDeleteOff topic-Benfica in action today and a great chance to see Saviola, Di Maria and Aimar in action.
ReplyDeletewhy does not diego call up claudio lopez for this match? at the age 35 lopez is still strong with good pace and scoing goals.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_L%C3%B3pez_(footballer)
Ok .. than call batistuta ,canniga ..Lets make a team old old guys
ReplyDeleteHahahah Claudio Lopez? Are you insane? I would have NEVER ever called him up when he was young...
ReplyDeleteI still can't understand why Maradona plays these friendlies that result in nothing. Not just because he doesn't use the players when they're needed on important matches, but also because he won't play against the main Ghana. Is he trying to convince people he's the indicated person to conduce the NT by playing useless matches outside Buenos Aires? You know, demagogy...
Lets clear a couple things. I do not think Pep would coach Argentina. Will Messi go to Barca and say I want Pep as my coach or I will leave. Do not see that happening. We did Guss coach Chelsea and Russia at the same time. But again this is a long shot.
ReplyDeleteVeron questions Maradona, yeah I read that yesterday. If the players turn on him then that is a good sign. The guy just needs to go, but wont happen so next.
Claudio Lopez? I can not believe that somebody brought up his name to play on the international level. You do realize he is in the MLS right?
Jack!
I think about Argentina perfomance during the Olympics which was not so long ago and i think Diego should be focussing more on what he is doing wrong rather then what seems to be a desparate guessing game. I love and admire the man very much but i love Argentina more. I had mentioned before about our lackluster performance but now i just dont care how we make it i just pray we make it. I know when we get there we will be very hard to beat.
ReplyDeletemaybe field the olympic team they will perform better than the senior squad?
ReplyDeletepartener Pablo Aimar with Marcelo Gallardo in midfield
ReplyDeleteBring back with Juan Riquelme
ReplyDeletetake back Marcelo Bielsa from Chile and sack Maradona
ReplyDeletetake back Marcelo Bielsa from Chile and sack Maradona
ReplyDeleteOh and don't come with Riquelme again. He quitted; and if you hadn't watched him play lately, I'll give you some interesting information: he's useless even for Boca.
ReplyDeleteRighto Salvio. Roman is not the answer for what ails the NT. Anybody who sees him play week in, week out knows that. Who knows, maybe he can get it back together, but it would take alot of gettin'.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the situation in Argentina i really doubt we make the next WC!
ReplyDeleteGrondona likes Diego and believes that he should be coaching the side in 2010 even though he sees all the problems of the NT
Bilardo will not make any changes, and Diego's selections dont seem to be the right one!
Lets not forget that Grondona pretty much second in charge at FIFA. Maybe this is a inside job that will get Argentina to the WC final and win it. Who knows!
ReplyDeletei have no idea why we are playing Ghana.what a waste
ReplyDeleteMeeting at the Ezeiza AFA Listing:
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