The coach of the selection of Argentine soccer, Diego Maradona said on Monday that convinced the Liverpool's Spanish midfielder Javier Mascherano to be the captain of the team and he was concerned albiceleste not yet know the names of his aides.
Maradona arrived on Monday from Europe, where he met with several players who will be on Nov. 19 in Glasgow to play against Scotland in a friendly match, the first ex-player as a selector.
"I convinced to Mascha (Mascherano) because a decision was mine," Maradona told the radio station La Red hours after not speak with reporters upon his arrival to the country.
"I felt that I needed for my time as captain in the selection (...) can infect much of what it offers inside the stadium," said Maradona, who had said that his team would be composed of "Mascherano and 10 others." Mascherano, meanwhile, has picked up the gauntlet without feeling pressured by the responsibility.
Maradona, 48, arrived on Nov. 4 at the selection after the resignation of Alfio Basile, who left office after losing to Chile. Argentina, world champion in 1978 and 1986, is third in the heat of the South American World Cup 2010 in South Africa led comfortably Paraguay.
Without helpers
The day before the formalization of Maradona as responsible for the selection, the Argentine Football Association (AFA), announced Sergio Batista and Jose Luis Brown and his aides in the field. But the days of the filing neither was at the press conference.
"I have a little worried not knowing who is going to accompany me," he said regarding the assistant field that has not been defined. "Ruggeri is the first on my list. I do not think that is impossible. Bilardo is going to speak to Grondona, everything can happen. But there are related. It Batista, Brown ... Also Brindisi and Humbertito (Grondona)," Diego said that it ruled out the possibility of Gabriel Batistuta and Claudio Caniggia. "The fact of not knowing who is going to go with me, I have a little worried because he comes over the match," he said.
Maradona traveled last week with former coach and his technical secretary of selections, Carlos Bilardo, England, Germany and Spain. In these countries spoke with Martin Demichelis, Sergio "Kun" Aguero, Lionel Messi, Gabriel Heinze, Jose Sosa, Carlos Tevez, Fabricio Coloccini, Jonas Gutierrez, Maxi Rodriguez and Fernando Gago. "It was a positive balance to the maximum. Everyone wants to take the revenge that people are in need and are willing to give a little bit more than I gave," said Maradona.
The former captain of the Argentine selection that he will not make many changes with regard to the team of Basile.
"We do not think much changed, those changes are going to make a little," said Maradona, who confirmed that it will maintain a talk with the talented Boca Juniors midfielder Juan Roman Riquelme for how such an intense season.
"A Riquelme nobody wants to leave him out, but I have to talk to him because it takes many games," he explained.
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