Diego Maradona new coach of Argentina national football team

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zexen_lowe said:

CaptainPrefrences said:
He will probably teach them to take in cocaine and scoring with their hands.

I can't believe people still complain about that. Y'all must sure see football in a different way than us, I can bet you anything you want that if anyone scored an important goal against Argentina with the hand, 99% of the Argentinians won't say anything about the player and will unleash all their fury against their referee.

Heck, there was a goal (not as important, though), in the Copa America 95, Argentina was winning over Brazil 2-1 with less than five minutes to go, there was a cross, Túlio couldn't reach it so he extended (very obviously) his arm, killed the ball to his leg and scored. Brazil then won in penalties. Nobody in Argentina ever called Túlio a cheater, the referee was called everything.

Or do you call a player a cheater when he commits a professional foul and he isn't red carded?

That's a very, very good point. But, I think it's a bit flawed. The reason most football interested people dislike Maradona (I don't), is that he had a somewhat bad relationship with the sport (or so they think at least). He did cocaine, and he did a few cheats. He also pissed of a lot of christians by calling it "the hand of God" (and please, is that what he actually said? Honestly, why do we always call it the hand of god, and not "El mano de el Dio"or whatever he said).

People who don't know a lot of football, have heard this from people who know a lot of football, and they generally then use the example of him using the hand.

Most people who are interested in football have come over that, and are rather a bit upset with other things he did, whereas people who are not-so-interested only have that example to use.