Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Maradona Out as Argentina Coach

Well, that didn't last long. You get blown out by the Germans in the World Cup and you are out on your ass.

The Argentine Football Association (AFA) on Tuesday elected not to renew Diego Maradona's contract as national team coach, AFA spokesman Ernesto Cherquis Bialo said.

Doubts had surrounded the 49-year-old's future ever since a tense meeting with AFA president Julio Grondona on Monday and newspapers had spent the day speculating on who would succeed the man who led the team to victory as star player at the 1986 World Cup.

I guess he can go back to bad-mouthing the US and sniffing that "Bolivian Marching Powder" again.

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