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Big wins such as a 5-1 dismantling of Ecuador and a 3-0 away truimph over Martino’s old mate Bielsa followed along with defeats of both Argentina and Brazil. There was also tragedy in Paraguay’s build-up as they lost the services leading marksman Salvador Cabañas courtesy of a bullet to the head in a Mexico City nightspot.
Heading into these finals 80 per cent of Argentinians wanted their favourite son out of the job but two games in El Pibe de Oro has ghosted back into their hearts. His stewardship in the qualifiers may have been less than spectacular but this is soon forgotten in the shadow of Group B domination.
Martino took on the Paraguay job after their first round exit in Germany four years ago and immediately shook things up by implementing a system of three strikers. Building on an assured defence for which Paraguay have long been famed Martino used the marathon qualification series to slowly bring the Paraguayan team out of their shell.
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Maradona is not the only Argentinian writing his own redemption song in South Africa. Marcelo Bielsa was heralded as a great tactical mind in his homeland before failing to guide Argentina out of their group in 2002. Now it is Chile who are benefiting from the Bielsa brain and two wins out of two have them well on course for progression.
Heading into the final group games it looks nailed on that all five South American teams will be going through to the knock-out stages. With Europe’s World Cup winners of old out of sorts,Christian Louboutin Platform Pumps,http://www.songhaul.com/##############/nfpi...ge.php?pos=-19, whose to bet the trophy won’t be winging its way west over the Atlantic once more?
Critics of Martino have used his policy of naturalising fellow Argentinians against him. A draw with the World Cup holders and a win against Slovakia leaves just New Zealand in the way of progress,Cheap Christian Louboutin Sandals, those voices of dissent are growing fainter by the day.
Playing the last 15 minutes of the match against France with 10 men could well have put pay to their chances of progress but they manfully stuck to the task. History was not on the side of the two time World Cup winners against South Africa but Uruguay managed to strong arm the hosts into making mistakes and then punished them with top drawer finishing.
It was far from plain sailing for Chile in the run-up to the World Cup, friendly games were cancelled for reasons as varied as suicide and earthquakes. Through such turmoil Bielsa has knitted together a group of impressionable age who have supreme confidence in their coach and are willing to carry out his instructions to the letter.
With South America sweeping away all-comers the real treats will come when they line-up against each other. A match between Argentina and Uruguay at any level is always worth a watch and we could well see a replication of the inaugural World Cup final in the first knock-out round. Elsewhere in the second stage Brazil could be pitted against Chile,http://mochizuki.la.coocan.jp/mochiz....html#comments, sure to be a feast of sumptuous attacking football just as the same game proved a highlight of the 1998 World Cup.
Coming into the World Cup all the talk surrounding Brazil was of how Dunga had banned Jogo Bonito in favour of a cautious approach at odds with the nation’s history. Dunga has been hammered back home for persisting with hatchetmen such as Gilberto Silva and Felipe Melo and ignoring the domestic based talents of Hernanes and Ganso.
If Dunga is the man with the iron will than what of the man with the iron constitution who sits in the Argentinian dugout? Red card,Cheap Christian Louboutin Platforms, winning captian,Cheap Christian Louboutin Evening, runner-up,Christian Louboutin Platform Pumps sale, drugs cheat. Its fair to say that Diego Maradona makes for easy copy whenever he heads to the World Cup finals. Even after his exclusion from the Argentina squad in 1978 he was the only story in town right up until the final.
Maradona decision to leave behind a brace Champions League winners was met with much consternation in Europe, as with Dunga choices it was a case of system over personnel. He even left it late to include hat-trick hero Gonzalo Higuaín after taking the Real Madrid striker’s choice not to represent Argentina at youth level as a personal insult. The fact that Maradona relented on Higuaín is further evidence that nobody in South Africa is more passionate about his nation winning than El Diego.
Watching the seleção torment the Ivory Coast it dawned on me that no matter who throws on the jersey a player become instantly blessed with divine skill as soon as they touch yellow cloth. This metamorphosis sees a clod hopping midfielder from Panathinaikos transform into a more mobile version of Socrates.
Dunga has remained unmoved under criticism of everything from his tactics to his dress sense and after stocking up the trophy cabinet at the CBF with Copa América and Confederations Cup titles he will step down after these finals. Brazil are sure to miss the man who possesses the iron will needed to coach this most expectant of countries. I’m certain if Maicon and Daniel Alves were any other nationality a less self assured coach would be railroaded into starting them both.
After injury brought Bielsa’s playing career to a premature end he took a coaching role at Newell’s Old Boys. One of a string of great players Bielsa helped develop was current Paraguay manager Gerardo Martino.
Those who laid into Oscar Tabarez after Uruguay limped through a play-off with Costa Rica are also being served up humble pie. Okay France may be playing like a dog’s dinner and South Africa offered little threat but the Uruguayans have gone about their business in a professional manner.
If South America do pick-up their 10th World Cup title in South Africa then what chance of the trophy holing up in the southern hemisphere for another eight year stretch? With Brazil hosting in 2014 expect all these teams to be back in four years time with a further South American entrant and gems such as Jefferson Montero, James Rodríguez and Carlos Zambrano writing another chapter in their continent’s rich footballing history.