9. DIEGO MARADONA
Diego Maradona is the best example of the fact that great players do not necessarily make great managers. Such was the Argentine’s outstanding natural talent, he did as he pleased on the football field – and off it, in fairness. Therefore, helping others achieve similar levels of excellence was never going to be easy but it has been made impossible by his total lack of discipline. He has achieved nothing in the club game and even his only noteworthy achievement in international football – qualifying Argentina for the World Cup – was overshadowed by the vulgar attack on the media which followed.
“They can suck it,” he declared, while grabbing his crotch, “and carry on sucking it!” Ultimately, though, it was Argentine who ended up sucking in South Africa, eliminated at the quarter-final stage after a humiliating 4-0 loss to Germany that proved Maradona’s last game in charge.
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