El Diego: “Cycle Is Over”

July 5th, 2010 | by: chris |

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It’s not necessarily a resignation, but it certainly seems like Argentina’s Diego Maradona experiment is over, even if nothing is official.

“There, my cycle is over. I gave it everything I had.

“Now I want to spend time with my family.”

For most neutral fans, this will seem like a disappointment because he provided the fringe which keeps people entertained throughout the mundane. However, for Argentina it’s probably the best news possible as while he’s a nice sideshow, sideline antics and cheeky press conferences don’t win football matches – they see you blown out in the quarterfinals. And allow you to put your hands down your pants in private as opposed to public.

Of course knowing Maradona, he could just be talking about his latest steroid/sports drink cycle. Wait and see, I suppose.

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LaurieInSeattle

Maybe he could be the official player-hugger? Because he was really good at that.
sidstu

Laurie In Seatle
I think you are being to hard on him–the players played for him but he ignored the importance of defence–he figured as long as they can score they will win the games-many offensive minded coaches believe in that but experience will teach him. He should get another chance b/c I think he would learn from this and work on the defence aspect a lot better
LaurieInSeattle

And here I thought I was giving him a compliment…
http://www.mcalcio.com Marco P.

Team motivator. That's what Diego needs to do.
Leave the brain-decisions to someone who knows what he's doing.