Many people think that Diego Maradona is insane and I think that is probably a very accurate evaluation of his mental state. The fact that he promised to streak through Argentina's streak if his squad wins the World Cup () or the fact that he tried out dozens of players during qualifying and then left Esteban Cambiasso and Javier Zanetti, who had just won the Champions League with Inter Milan at home (no biggie) all provide evidence that Maradona is a bit cookoo. To all the doubters out there I present exhibit A, his suit at todays match against Nigeria.
I don't know what was funnier, the fact that he decided to wear matching outfits with his two assistants or that the outfit made him look like a Columbian coke distributor. Now to the serious part.
I don't know why Gutierrez played as right back. He's a winger and like most proper wingers he can't defend much better than John Terry's grandmother. It would be easy assume that because right wingers and right backs are both oriented laterally and run in the same general direction they can switch positions interchangeable. But that's not true. Dani Alves can maybe play as a winger but he's the best right back in the world (with Maicon. Why are they both Brazilian. Life is not fair) so why would you wanna put him in any other positions. Yes today it worked but once Argentina faces a team that's on eye level with them in terms of talent they should probably over-think that whole Gutierrez pretending to be a defender thing.
Too bad he can't use that tentacle hair to grab the ball from attackers.
After giving one of the greatest players of all time shit I have to give him credit too (Not that he cares what I think. That makes him so awesome. Then again he doesn't care what anybody thinks. That's what makes him crazy) . Today Argentina dominated. They found a way to put Tevez and Messi and Higuain in the same line-up and left Diego Milito (the guy who sank Bayern Munich in the Champions League final) on the bench. Messi took a lot of human growth hormone when he was younger because he was only like a foot tall or something and now he is superhuman. The ball seems to be glued to his foot and he only lets its from his foot to send the ball to his favorite place: the goal. In that respect we have to give mad respect to the Nigerian goalkeeper Enyeama who denied Messi glory multiple times. According to Wikipedia he plays for Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. but I don't think for much longer.
Nigeria's players were much faster than the Argentinian defense and if they had been less tame and stepped on some toes they could have stolen a point today. I went through the effort to devise a strategy how to beat Argentina. It's pretty simple: Just quintuple-team Messi and then have two midfielders just haul passes down the line (preferably Gutierrez' side) to some really really fast and young wingers they flank into the box where a forward just tests that Goalkeeper till he makes a mistake. Or just score more goals than them. Because with Messi they're pretty much guaranteed to score.
Nigeria presented themselves well today and I am dying to know who will advance from this group. My prediction is that South Korea will lose against Argentina which means that South Korea and Nigeria will have a death-match before the knockout round.
Yeah Diego is insane but at the same time i think he is just one of the coolest guys on this fucking planet. No one of us can imagine what Maradona means to the Argentinians.
ReplyDeleteLook at this: who else would go on the stage and sing a song that does nothing else but praise himself? It makes me cry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FMkL7ulkJ8
you all have to smoke some weed and then watch the film by Emir Kusturica. Unbelievable :-)