Alejandro Mancuso, aide-de-camp of Diego Armando Maradona During his time as coach of the Argentine National Team, he broke into silence in a radio talk and spoke about two very spicy topics of yesteryear: the departure of Juan Román Riquelme of the national team and the Fight by Oscar Ruggeri with “Fluff”.
It all started with the resignation of Alfio “Coco” Basile as coach of the national team, in 2008: “That’s where the part I know best begins. Ruggeri and Diego there was a very big fight, with a judicial issue involved. Things were ugly between them. They were fought to the death”Mancuso began in dialogue with” Here there is good football, “on Radio La Red.
“Since 97 they had experienced verbal attacks through the press due to differences with the Argentine soccer strike, when the Deportivo Español players were released. But everything was fixed in a minute. Diego wanted one or two strong coaches to finish putting together the coaching staff and I proposed to Oscar Ruggeri, which for him was a bad word. I have Verónica Ojeda as a witness, who was as white as the wall. When I mentioned it to him, Diego made a silence that I knew. With which he gave me the OK without answering. He stay quiet. And then he said ‘how do we do it? If you know the problem I have’. There I told him that if he authorized me, in two minutes I would bring it, “he continued.
“Ruggeri entered the barbecue area, they hugged, sat down to talk about football and everything was sorted out. Oscar was what we needed, because I was Diego’s side, I was with him 24 hours a day and there were things that I couldn’t control in a coaching staff. We needed a guy to absorb the whole situation, to run the group and some of the training. The defensive part, how to head in the other area. Besides, he was a very strong man, respected ”, continued Mancu.
Maradona precisely wanted Ruggeri to deal with the “Riquelme issue”, who had announced that he was retiring from the Albiceleste team. But there was no success. “I remember as if it was 10 minutes ago. Ruggeri said yes. When he made the approach, he warned him that it was very difficult, that Riquelme did not return to the national team. When he said that, I realized the magnitude of the problem ”, he sentenced.
Regarding the resignation of the greatest idol in the history of Boca, he dismissed the theory that it was due to differences with Maradona: “That excuse was sought, but it seems to me that the underlying problem was not that”, ended. Mancuso implied that, once Basile was dismissed from the position, Riquelme already had the decision taken in an unwavering way.
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