Maradona Threatening to Resign. Already.
Well, that didn’t take long. Reports in the Argentine press yesterday already have Diego Maradona threatening to resign as albiceleste boss. One week before his first game in charge.
The row is over Maradona’s choice of assistant. El Diego wants his World Cup ‘86 teammate Oscar Ruggeri to be assistant manager and Argentina Football Association president Julio Grondona, well, doesn’t. And Grondona has a very straightforward reason for not wanting Ruggeri:
“I don’t like his face,” said Grondona as he forced his way through a crowd of reporters to his car. “It’s a personal thing.”
Apparently this has become an ultimatum situation already, with Maradona threatening to quit if he doesn’t get his man. Would obviously be a huge disappoint if Maradona resigns before even fielding a team, but at least he’d leave with an unbeaten record. How many international managers can say that?
Whether or not Maradona walks this time, we could veyr well be seeing a preview of how #10’s reign as Argentina coach ends. Diego Maradona may or may not be a decent coach (here are five reasons he’ll succeed) but he’s definitely not good at dealing with authority.
p.s. Good luck finding this story if you’re Googling from Argentina, where a judges have handed down restraining orders forcing Google Argentina and Google Yahoo to censor search results for certain celebrities.
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