Diego

Hampden Park, 19th of November
Scotland vs Argentina
(Friendly)


The day before the tickets went on sale, I heard that Diego Armando Maradona was appointed as Argentina coach. So I bought tickets to see his first game in charge.

One of the most gifted football player ever, I'm not going to debate if he or Edson Arrantes do Nascimento aka "Pele" is the best of all time, but he as controversial as he has been, he's now the Argentina coach. He didn't come alone, his assistant Carlos Bilardo is no more no less than the former national coach who won the world cup in 1986 with Diego himself.

In Scotland, Diego is a legend because he managed to score a goal with his hand against England in that same world cup before finishing them with his "solo goal".
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ULd3MLm6hlg&feature=related
The Scots even gave him a price for that before the game...

But nowadays, Terry Butcher is an assistant of the Scottish coach and Butcher is a former English player who played and lost that famous game in 1986. He told the press: "I have not forgiven him" and Maradona replied the day after: "If he doesn't want to shake my hand, I will still sleep at night..."

Hampden park is a special place for Diego, it's where he scored his first goal for Argentina back in 1979.

But now he is the boss, he is here to make Messi, Tevez, Aguerro, Riquelme and the rest go to the world cup and win it.




The game itself, Argentina completely overplayed Scotland in the first 15 minutes, and scored by Maximo Rodriguez. Then Scotland improved but never relly came close to score an equaliser.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rzVI58vkY10&feature=related

It finished 1-0. It was just a friendly, it doesn't really matter anyway.

Next time, Argentina will play in France before going back to the world cup qualifying games.

All the best Diego!