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The Argentine selection of soccer of the hand of Diego Armando Maradona seems not to find the correct course. The bad performances have come to so point in which even the means allude to the possible not classification for the World cup of South Africa 2010. Bearing in mind of that it is a question of a country with a big soccer tradition, the fortitudes are much warmed in this region of the new continent. In the last two meetings they were forced to win to be able to support a minimal calmness level, but the reality was different, the albicelestes lost before Brazil and also they fell down in Asunción.

In spite of being provided with an innumerable figures quantity, the technical director could not find the team, in these moments only they reduce two meetings where they will have to win or win to try to obtain the valued passport. The last meeting was disputed in the stadium Defenders of the Nunchaku, where the places won for the minimal difference.

The initial eleven were the following ones: Paraguay – Justo Villar; Darío Verón, Julius Caesar Cáceres, Paulo Da Silva, Aureliano Torres; Enrique Vera, Jonathan Santana, Edgar Barreto, Cristian Riveros; Salvador Cabañas and Nelson Haedo Valdez. Argentina – Sergio Romero; Javier Zanetti, Sebastián Domínguez, Gabriel Heinze, Emiliano Papa; Juan Sebastián Verón, Javier Mascherano, Fernando Gago, Jesus Dátolo; Lionel Messi and Sergio Agüero.

The Paraguayans dominated the first time, where Haedo Valdez marked so much of the victory. In the second half, the things paired a little but anyhow the level of collective game of the Argentinians it was the awful. His international figures, like for example Lionel Messi, do not shine as they do it in his respective clubs: what will be the result of this novel?

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Veteran Argentina midfielder Juan Sebastien Veron claims under-fire team manager Diego Maradona is struggling to put together an efficient team of 11 players despite having a dearth of quality at his disposal.
Two-time champions Argentina last week slipped to fifth in the South American World Cup qualifying standings, a place below the automatic qualification slots, after conceding four defeats in their last five games.
While Maradona, who is still considered a football God in his native country, is spending this week in Italy at a spa resort, Argentine football chiefs have been holding crisis talks.
Veron meanwhile admitted in an interview with La Red radio station he was concerned about Argentina’s qualifying chances, and claimed that Maradona has picked players who are not on the kind of form needed to play for the ‘Albiceleste’.
“We’ve got great players but the coach (Maradona) hasn’t really unearthed his best team yet,” said Veron, a former Manchester United player who is now captain of Estudiantes in Argentina’s top division.
The last time Argentina, World Cup champions in 1978 and 1986, failed to make the finals was in 1970. After recent defeats to Brazil (1-3) and Paraguay (0-1), Veron believes they are in a precarious position.
“Anything could happen,” said the 34-year-old when asked whether Argentina were in danger of not qualifying.
“The fact is that there are players in the team who are not in their very best form.”
Veron highlighted Barcelona’s highly-regarded striker Lionel Messi, but defended the player by saying: “At Barcelona they play a game of short, quick passes which is different to the way Argentina play. Here, everyone expects Lio (Messi) to dribble through five players and then score a goal. But he can’t do everything himself.”
Maradona on Monday missed a meeting involving Argentina general manager Carlos Bilardo and Julio Grondona, president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and vice-president of world governing body FIFA.
According to Argentine press reports, Grondona intended to ask Maradona to delegate more responsibility to Bilardo, who was the coach of Argentina in 1986 when Maradona captained the side to World Cup glory in Mexico.
Argentina host already-eliminated Peru on October 10 before travelling to neighbours Uruguay, who trail them by a single point, four days later.
Failure to finish among the top four would force Argentina into a two-leg play-off to secure their ticket for the finals in South Africa next summer.