Argentina Hopeful in South Africa

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With Brazil's arrival in South Africa not too long ago, Argentina is following the same path with their minds enticed with the World Cup title. Argentina can dream of becoming a champion, but they have to demonstrate not for the public, but for themselves to prove that they are in South Africa for a reason. It's been 24 years since Argentina has been crowned champion, but it was Diego Armando Maradona, the player that moved the team up throughout the tournament. Now as a coach, Diego Armando Maradona's coaching abilities have to prove many critics that he deserves to be the lead of Argentina's tactical schemes against the rivals in South Africa. Maradona tells the media that he is hopeful to win the World Cup, but that is that Argentina has shown lack of commitment because they have given their rivals space and time to attack.

What I think that Argentina needs is not Lionel Messi's out of this world tricks, but they need to develop a tactical scheme that could derive their rivals in time. With this, one has to study cautiously their rivals moves and abilities because one can be faster than others. Unfortunately, Maradona has left Cambiasso and Zanetti, both leading figures in F.C. Internazionale de Milan, which they have been erased from the list. Cambiasso and Zanetti could have been the players that could have changed the course of the Argentine system because without them, Argentina would certainly be weak and could show lack in the midfield and up. Unless, Argentina has shown the world that they have outgrew from the qualifiers, where they barely made it to the World Cup in the fourth place.

Diego Armando Maradona can be a great laeder, but the lack of players and their quality like Garce is really old enough to retire already. Diego Armando Maradona has to play his cards right, in situations where the team is hurting he has to bring them back up to give a push of motivation to achieve glory. Many of the Argentina's starting lineup wants to depend upon Messi, but it is not like that because they are all playing individually, no one can give the pressure to just one players considered the best player in the world. I think that Argentina needs is the precise counterattacks with Juan Sebastian Veron's ablility to what he does in Estudiantes de La Plata and Martin Palermo's ablility in Boca Juniors. We can know all these questions that the media and myself are asking. How is Argentina going to do in the World Cup?

The answer is going to be defined in the first game against Nigeria on June 12.