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When the final whistle of the Uruguay – Argentina sounded last October, which certified the pass of the albiceleste to the World cup, Diego Armando Maradona began to release sharp remarks for the mouth and melted in a questionable hug, for a lot of differences that they separate to both, with Carlos Salvador Bilardo. Hardly the technician could imagine that some of his players would re-light this action and less still that he was Juan Sebastián Verón, the real modality of the selection, although the captaincy relapses into Mascherano. Between other things, the Witch censured the way of celebrating the victory of the technician, pointed out his inexperience and made clear that presently Argentina in South Africa is not favorite to anything. In fact, it indicated that now Argentina has to worry about finding his game pattern.

Diego Armando Maradona has not apologized in public for that challenging attitude, in fact it continues to his, trying to incorporate Ruggeri in his technical, extreme body in which it does not transfer Grondona, because this assistant’s position one wants to give it to his son. Pero Maradona really yes has given a step backwards. Little by little it realizes that despite his picture, till not long ago inviolable, of myth, it cannot happen over the leaders of the selection because yes. It already did it with Riquelme and a stick took, so that, with good criterion, he has chosen to listen to a veteran as Verón rather than to nobody, a soccer player that he always endorsed and who had no hair in the language at the time of showing his doubts about the project, although yes it is true that it never separated his confidence and said at all times that it had to be in the World cup.

This weekend, before going to Spain, Maradona moved towards La Plata to meet Verón. The captain of Students and indisputable leader of the glorious period through that the Prickle is living in the last years, received it in the hotel where there was concentrating the team, which this Sunday achieved the most important victory before Vélez. Maradona stretched the hand to his modality, listened to his complaints and assumed the clear errors: there is no drawing and it is necessary to find it, task of all, preventing from being bad ambience in the group. For his part, Verón assumed Diego’s message: to work to taste the trainer needs to be provided with his collaborators and I bilard, that he is like a father for him for his roots prickles, it must understand it. Perhaps this is the task of the Witch, although he does not want to recognize it, do that manager and technician file roughnesses between, something necessary so that the good ambience is encouraged in the concentration.

After taking the pulse to Verón, Maradona will meet of individual form Messi, Mascherano, his captain, and Heinze, other of his right-hand men. Concerning the player of the Barcelona there is another clearer and clearer concept, that Verón has wanted to make understand Diego. The problem of that Messi does not work with Argentina does not belong to Messi in itself, but rather to the proper selection, partners and technician, who must do that the crack feels at ease to develop his potential. The best thing of everything is that Maradona is listening, something that has not done in all his long journey like seleccionador. And that is encouraging.

I belong to those that he thinks that few people can know more soccer than Maradona, although enough has criticized it for his swaying like trainer. Nevertheless, a person who is created over the good and the evil is condemned to the defeat. He has not been fine but the situation still has margin for revertir if he attends to his men. And obviously, convinced I am of that there is much more than it has come out in this chat with Verón, that I believe that it can mark a significant inflection point. Maradona needs humility and Verón turns out to be ideal to give it to him.

An exciting day

Concerning what this weekend has happened in the Argentine tournament, there is much that to count. The Coconut Basile leaves after the good Mouth gust pre Superoutstanding figure has been truncated. River keeps on losing, this time before the powerful Newell’s, and again he points to be a back marker of the tournament, although it has in Racing a rival needle, which with new technician fell down again, despite the improvement before Tucumán. Students it scored suddenly to the insurance Vélez de Gareca and Banfield added a meritorious victory in Under Flowers, where it was going without singing victory fourteen years. With this defeat the St Lawrence remains without possibilities of fighting the title and the dwarfs will begin Simeone him to grow.

The Opening keeps on being beautiful. Newell’s and Banfield, which has not lost I do not even find only one, they lead it with 29 points, to three it is Students, that it comes with everything, and a little more left behind they are Columbus of the Turk Mohamed and Vélez, who was not waiting for the slip of this weekend in La Plata. As anecdote we can say that we are in the tournament of the Uruguayans. The Tank Miscellany, which is the maximum scorer of the championship, and Sebastián Fernández, author of the goal before the St Lawrence, they are clear leaders in Banfield, while this weekend the one that did the two to River on the part of Newell’s was the enrachado Joaquín Boghossian, that already supreme seven so many people and it is doing of his 195 centimeters the best weapon of the lepers. The above mentioned, great emotion when only six days stay.