Diego using Nike's words. Contradictory. Isn't it?

Right. So, after I thanked the man for coming to his senses for a little while and mentioning the name of Diego MILITO amongst others that are certainties to be included in Argentina's World Cup squad I hear this: Nike is about to launch a new commercial campaign that urges fans to forget about Mexico 1986.

You can try it yourself. Go to www.ole.com.ar or www.clarin.com.ar and before you reach their content you'll see an ad by this American company where the number '1986' is scratched and then the number '2010' shows up with the inscription: 'Escribamos historia' (Let's write history -or 'Let's re-write history').

A colleague of mine told me yesterday that this campaign was going to happen and that MARADONA was going to get paid to say more or less what the campaign is saying.

I wasn't too sure about this so I kept quiet.

Next thing I hear is MARADONA saying in a press conference in Germany: 'I don't want to see my goals from 1986 over and over again. Argentina needs new heroes. We haven't won anything for 24 years. You can't live in the past' and blah blah blah.

This is not contradictory because Argentina wears Adidas and they are one of the main sponsors of the AFA.

This is contradictory because all the while, MARADONA and BILARDO and the boot-licking TV channels like TyC Sports (to put it in TEVEZ's words when he referred to Gary NEVILLE) were trying to make us believe that the whole stage is set for Argentina to repeat what we did in 1986.

And Diego even said it today in that very same press conference. He said 'the media wants us to do bad. They think we'll end the World Cup in last position' and that goes to show he still thinks about 1986 all the time.

His speech does not see eye-to-eye with Nike's, but he's pretending it is so he cashes in.

It's a win-win situation for Nike, of course. When their main competitor Adidas does its best to replicate the shirts we wore in 1986, they come out with this campaign that aims directly at the younger fans and ask them to forget about one of the proudest moments in the history of our national team.

But where does this leave MARADONA? In the eyes of the boot-licking media, he'll stay in his pedestal. Why wouldn't he?


The way I see it. It's just another pathetic piece of business. And Diego is lying if he says he wants us all to forget something he kept us reminding of over and over again.

Why the hell the references of how those players in 1986 were enemies with the press?

Why the hell do they want to play a friendly against Israel, like we did prior to that 1986 World Cup?

I, for one, don't believe for a second that Diego wants us to forget about 1986.

I know this is not the essential part of football. I know I've seen footballers sell their souls to advertise whatever product they were asked to advertise. It will always happen. It's one of the worst aspects of modern football.

But I guess I would have liked for MARADONA to keep doing what he's been doing so far (not tactically or managerially). I would have wanted him to stay honest to himself and to not sell his beliefs to any given company in order to get some money. Because I know he still wants Argentina to repeat what he helped the Albiceleste achieve in 1986.

I'm absolutely eager to read your opinions on this matter.