“It is fundamental to being world champions”: the virtue that Basile highlighted of Scaloni

The former coach of the Argentine National Team, Alfio ‘Coco’ Basile, stressed that he likes “the work” of Lionel Scaloni and “all” his coaching staff ahead of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, which will begin in less than 75 days. More than 10 years after his retirement as technical director, Coco remarked: “I really like all the work of the coaching staff of the Argentine National Team, they are all good and intelligent kids. They also maintain humility and it is essential to be world champions”, in an interview with Public TV.In this sense, he was excited about the World Cup: “We have good players, they chose them well but we do not have to get bigger. Several journalists burn them, the same ones who did not believe so much in the team, “in reference to the appointment in which the team will face Poland, Mexico and Saudi Arabia, rival of the debut on Tuesday, November 22.
He also recalled with irony: “We always had 33 undefeated matches and now we were dropped two games, che”, on the matches against “Rest of the World” and “Rest of America” in unofficial friendlies. ” I like that they come in undefeated, we have a good team. I didn’t have Lionel Scaloni as a player but as a coach he is a phenomenon,” said the coach who was 31 games undefeated and won two Copa America titles in 1991 and 1993 and a runner-up in 2007 after losing to Brazil (3-0) in the final. Basile went 31 games undefeated, two Copa America titles in 1991 and 1993 and a runner-up finish in 2007 after losing to Brazil (3-0) in the final. In turn, he was in charge of the team in the remembered 5-0 of Colombia in the Monumental during the Qualifiers for the United States.
On the other hand, he recalled: “The sporting frustration of my life was the World Cup in the United States. We were all convinced that we were going to be world champions and they shit us”, and reiterated that “Joao Havelange decided to take Italy and Brazil to the final, his political career was over and they had not been champions for 24 years. When the nurse came in to look for Diego, she knew they were turning us over.” Finally, Basile criticized VAR because “they ruined football and took away emotion”: “I prefer the mistake of a referee and the human eye, before the mistake of people who watch it on television and stop you five minutes a game. Human failure exists in everyone: players, coaches, referees and line judges. They screwed up football, now people can’t shout a quiet goal, they have to wait for them to get out of the middle,” he concluded.
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