Argentina in South Africa

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Throughout the Argentina's national team training session coverage in South Africa, more than 5,000 people were present to be the most attractive training. Argentina pleased the crowd by showing their players' skills on how to handle the ball as it should, and boy they showed many goals for the many fans that attended. The game featured all players set into two teams but with the mix of youth and experience that lead with a tie of 3 - 3 in just 40 minutes of game playing. Carlos Tevez, Gonzalo Higuain and Angel Di Maria scored for the "orange" team, while Mario Bolatti, Diego Milito and Ariel Garce scored for the "blue" team. Many of the fans screamed coach Diego Armando Maradona's name, upping the team morale into making a good participation in the World Cup facing Nigeria, South Korea and Greece.

While Maradona is already planning on who is going to be on the starting lineup for Saturday's game against Nigeria, but as it seems with the central defenders Martin Demichelis and Walter Samuel, both great defensive walls that have been successful in both Bayern Munich and Internazionale respectively leaving Clemente Rodriguez and Gabriel Heinze as both right backs and left backs defenders in order to create the attack from the back. During the practice session Maradona mixed with Carlos Tevez and Lionel Messi as the three responsibles for Argentina's offensive attackers. All three players played with well intensity, without selfishness from either player, that is the way Argentina should put up with during the tournament with enough communication from the defenders to the strikers. Maradona mixed players with the offensive enough against the defenders strong enough to keep off counter attacks and air balls that Europeans and Asians play with much getting ready for the debut against Nigeria on June 12. Maradona has already studied how Nigeria moves, due to the international friendly match the other day between Nigeria and North Korea in a 3 - 1 victory over the Africans.

Nigeria has been having defensive problems, with that Argentina has already acknowledge the flaw with the intention of Nigeria to fix those problems by putting the players in different positions now that John Obi Mikel is out of the World Cup.

Argentina needs to study not only Nigeria, but South Korea and Greece, in being these two as a surprise for group B.