As Argentina are ready to begin Copa America 2011 we look back to the one important man missing from all of this. A man with a place in football lore as one of the greatest players of all time. A man who has been kicked out of a World Cup and whose weight fluctuation can match Kirstie Alley's. A man, who when he finally put in a suit while managing at the World Cup, looked like he just came from a funeral. The man in question is of course, Diego Maradona, whose absence from Copa America is obvious to even the most casual of observers.
Come Back To Us Diego Maradona
Ever since his term as Argentina manager ended following the 2010 World Cup, Maradona has almost been in football exile. He’s been missing from the football world, only popping up to say that he is supposedly going to manage some team in Qatar. We, as a footballing people are worse off for it.
After all, without Maradona who is going to tell us to “suck it and keep on sucking it.” Whose going to be our favorite person in the football world in rehab or jailed for not paying taxes. Maradona ably filled so many roles, all of which were entertaining, if not always productive. Now, we are without him.
He may not be a very good manager. He’s not. He many not be reliable. He’s not. He may not help a team do much in the way of winning actual football matches. He won’t. Even so, he does an incredible amount for the game’s entertainment so someone, anyone, in a mildly relevant position in football (Qatar, you don’t count) please give the man a job. It’s fot the good of the sport.
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