Buenos Aires, July 06: One of Diego Maradona’s assistants wants him to stay, and a top Argentine football official said the job is his despite the team’s devastating 4-0 loss against Germany in the World Cup quarter-finals.
“Knowing Diego, it is difficult for me to think he wants to step down after failing in his objective to win the Cup,” assistant coach Alejandro Mancuso said in a radio interview yesterday. “We can’t throw away all the good work we’ve done.”
Mancuso added that the coaching staff also wanted Maradona to continue.
Maradona has not made his plans clear following Argentina’s second straight loss to Germany in a World Cup quarter-final on Saturday, but talked of “the end of a cycle” when the squad returned home from South Africa.
Cronica newspaper yesterday quoted Maradona as saying, “I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family.
–Agencies