Argentina Coach: Maradona Should Have My Job

December 15th, 2005 | by: WC Bob | View Comments

Help Wanted: Soccer superstar who is long retired, notoriously out of shape, frequently in trouble with the law and who has a history of drug abuse.

Those are exactly the qualities Argentina is looking for in a national team coach if one is to believe the words of its current boss Jose Pekerman.

“Diego Maradona should be the coach of Argentina,” Jose Pekerman told the Argentine state news agency Telam in an interview published on Tuesday.

“I’m convinced he has to decide what he wants to do but it’s a situation that has to come about,” said Pekerman, who refers to Maradona as his “greatest idol.”

Anyone else out there as eager as I am to see this train wreck happen?