The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

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Ka-pi96 said:

The Fury said:

Indeed but do you think they can set them up just for one guy when they may only train together for a few weeks a year? When some of those players are world class and think "Why aren't they setting this up for me?"

Argentina seem to currently be the Belgium of South America, superb individual players but yet to play as a team, their own individual skill has carried the team through.

Well Portugal have done a pretty good job setting up their team around Ronaldo, and while the rest of their team may not be on Argentina's level he's still far from the only really good player there.

And there's nothing stopping them from being a great team with superb individual players. Brazil and Germany usually manage that pretty well.

As for Belgium so far they've looked much better this qualifying campaign than they have before and I think a big part of that is Martinez as their new manager. So Argentina really need to stop hiring people like Maradona and Martino and hire someone who can actually manage

Edit: Actually, Carlo Ancelotti is currently available and from what I've seen he's not only done a great job for a variety of different teams but he may even be a tad underrated, so perhaps Argentina should look in to him...

I doubt they can pay his wages, argentina's federation has been a disaster lately. Anyway, excluding Maradona I don't think they've had particularily bad coaches. 

 

Hell, Sampaoli may be a disgusting human being but he made us (chile) play really good football and he got great results. Bauza was doing great with his team before the NT, and Martino while he failed with barca was far from Maradona level.

 

Also, I think them and Brazilians always have coaches that share their nationality, so I doubt they would go with Ancelotti