timesonline.co.uk - 11/20/2008
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Video: When Maradona was king I Maradona, a slum and the birth of a legend I Diego returns to Hampden I A genius to rank alongside Pel I Butcher feels injustice 22 years on I Welcome to the Maradona circus I Maradona lifted by chain reaction I Debate: Maradona: hero or villain? I Maradona turns ...
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hastaelgolsiempre.com - 11/14/2008
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hastaelgolsiempre.com —
This wasn’t expected. Diego Maradona has named three
- not five - home-based players to be added...
to the Argentina squad prior to this weekend’s international friendly against Scotland in Glasgow, in his first match as selección boss. In ...
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Rolfi gets a call up!
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... negatively observed “the performance of the Argentina defence here highlighted an obvious flaw and improvement will be required if Maradona’s men are to withstand more serious threats en route to South Africa.” Matt Dickinson illustrated the gulf in class, writing “Scotland threatened sporadically in the second half but, even without Lionel Messi, Juan Roman Riquelme and Sergio Aguero, Argentina had too much technical class.” On the Tartan Army, in an article discussing the merits of this international friendly week, ...
Maradona's demeanour impressive
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I think the verdict has been quite positive.
Typically El Diego sucks up all the oxygen where ever he is. Instead we saw no outbursts or wild gesticulations on the sidelines or haranguing of officials which we typically associate Maradona with. He was sober and subdued though his first match as manager, with nary a whisper of emotion at Maxi Rodriguez's goal. Maradona rarely got up preferring to remain huddled against the cold.
He hugged all his players after the match more for their support following his daughter's admission to a Madrid hospital with ...
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