Saturday, July 24, 2010

FIFA World Cup 2010 : Argentina and Diego Maradona

Argentina end FIFA World Cup 2010 with humiliating when demolished by young player of Germany 4-0. The match was quarter-finals and it was repeated of FIFA World Cup 2006 as they also lost for the same team. The losses ring a bell match against Bolivia during qualifiers after they also knock down with 1-6.

Argentina called 60 players for qualifiers and initially A. Basile was the coach but resigned due to poor performance. Diego Maradona their hero of 1986 as appointed the head coach for the replacement. They finished 4th place to book to South Africa with 8 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses.

Riquelme, Messi and Aguero become top scorer for Argentina during qualifier with 4 goals. Lionel Messi winner of the 2009 Ballon d’or become most spotlights player for them and appear the entire match including qualifiers count of 13 matches. However he could not scored any goal in South Africa but Gonzalo Higuan becomes top scorer with 4 goals. Gonzalo Higuan first capped was 10th October 2009 against Peru and only appear two times in qualifiers.

Argentina win FIFA World cup 2 times with their legendary player Mario Kempes and Diego Maradona. Mario Kempes bring the first title to Argentina in their soil after beat Netherlands in FIFA World Cup 1978. After that Diego Maradona mark in history as brilliant player and bring second title for Argentina in FIFA World Cup 1986. He also makes an effort to his second finals in the following tournament but lost to Germany.

Overall Argentina finished top fours are 4 times and finished at least quarter-finals for 3 times. It was 15 appearances in FIFA world cup so far.

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