Hola amigos,

This blog has always been the most realistic, passionate and constructive. Some bloggers here post since 2006 and they have tactical knowledge: SKYWALKER, ALFIO, FELIPE, KRISH, WATCH10 are for example, awesome to read.

Everyone here has its own life and post more or less. Some stay. Some leave. Some come back. Some don’t but will. Some post more because they have more free time. Some post less because they have raised a family (RUNE). Some can’t because they have too much work (TODDUTAH). Some leave and come back two times in a row because of useless quarels (ALBO). Some couldn’t connect to the Internet and post or even watch games because of war (ALFIO). The major reason why some awesome bloggers have left the blog is because of realism and depression: they see Argentina doing the same mistakes again and again and are bored (GEORGE, ALEXA, etc). Some stop posting. Some post only when it matters. Some monuments of this place will come back (AURELIUS). This blog lives through cycles. It’s like a family, at some point everyone comes back and people like CHALZ know it. It is the first and the best blog, even if it’s not the most modern.

My job in life is to analyze companies and study their outlook. If a company is promising, I keep it. If it’s not, I put it aside. I am a passionate perfectionist and until a problem isn’t solved, I try to solve it. Since 2007, I keep repeating like a parrot what goes wrong with Argentina tactics and Management, generally in a very precise and constructive manner. Since 2011, I stopped doing that because it’s repetitive. You see, QF of WC 2006 traumatized me. The most beautiful team I have ever seen lost unfairly. Our beautiful futbol which is the best way to win titles on the long-term was not efficient. The Copa 2007 final killed me. During Summer 2007, I studied all our games of WC 2006 and leant everything I know in futbol from Pekerman. Things that you understand by re-watching games and study how our fantastic Pekerboys moved together, to form like an organism.

There is something I can’t stand in life: Stupidity. Some people don’t understand that futbol is a collective sport. They don’t understand that you must defend as a unit. They don’t understand the basics. If Argentina conceds a gol like against Chile, with only 4 players defending, the others walking, they just don’t get it. If Argentina would win 1-0 every game by having 4 red cards and 1% of the possession, they would be happy. Apparent results don’t mean we are playing well. My Grand-Mother could just have the same. The fact is that Argentina, the country of technique and beautifu passing, can NOT do 3 successful passes in a row. One question: why do the fans stop singing “Olé Olé Olé, Olé Olé Olé Ola”? Have you ever thought about it? No? Because Argentina loses the possession all the time! Messi has improved under Sabella? Maybe it’s because of Barca and that he’s getting more mature? What will they say when Messi will be 39? That his level will have decreased because of the coach at that time? Messi needs nobody to beat Maradona’s records. All this is politics. Finally, lots of Sabella fans hate Pastore like they used to hate Riquelme and Aimar before. They prefer Sosa and I respect that. But at least respect creativity and keep you hatred for yourself. Someone like Payasito could have been a doctor. He’s educated. Please learn from his class, on or off the picth, like Messi does.

As Sabella Mania is pure Stupidity and growing with no reasons, I cannot handle it anymore. Sabella is doing exactly the same things that Basile, Maradona, Batista did. The Same. Exactly. You don’t believe it? Well, you haven’t studied or watched the games under the 3 previous monkeys. Sabella tries to achieve his objectives differently, it’s true, by trying to make his forwards defend (and uses for example a defending but headless chicken like Lavezzi), because at least, he’s a coach. And he fails! Sabella probably has honest motivations but he’s here for one year, and we keep defending with 6 or 7 players. The forwards try to satisfy him but the discipline result is the same. Equal to zero. Only an experienced coach, who has authority and cojones can bench our stars to make them understand. Our forwards play for themselves, not for the team, not for the country and people who have to face a terrible crisis since 2002. Forwards don’t defend since 2007. They will continue. Unless Sabella makes it with Sosa, Guinazu, Rojo, Desabato and Brana. Will he?

There is a website that should be called Mundo Sabella. 97% of their bloggers believe Sabella has done at least a decent job. You know what was the stat for Batista after our victory over Spain 4-1? 72.9%. After the Uruguay game, they insulted him. Here on the argie blog, almost all the regulars were pessimistic after that win over Spain! Some like me got trashed because of announcing that we were going into a wall, under Basile, Maradona and then Batista (=3 times). It doesn’t change with Sabella. The fact is that none of these uneducated people came back here to apologize and say “Sorry guys if we insulted you, you were right”. FAB? People here are honorable and credible.

I have never considered myself as a moderator, but more of an active blogger of this fantastic place. I tried to make people think about our tactical and management issues. But as I said before, I can’t handle stupidity. The Sabella fans want to live in Alice in Wonderland and refuse to face the truth. So be it, they’ll soon have a new pro-AFA Moderator to dream a bit more. This place belongs to every fan so it belongs to Sabella fans too. I respect constructive Sabella fans, not the others and as a moderator you must even respect the trolls. I could stay but it’s boring to lose time to satisfy “Stupidity”. For me, it won’t change much. I’ll keep posting like before and share my passion with the regulars… and will save all the time used at this voluntary work done for 3 years. It was nice to work within your team DARYL, please email me when you have found someone to manage this board.

Vamos Argentina carajo!

Hola amigos,

I’ve just watched a friend of mine playing the last videogame available on the market.
He doesn’t handle its gameplay well yet but he still managed to score 2 golazos thanks to the Argie attacking force. Messi and Higuain are awesome to control, you can manipulate them like chewing-gum!

Because the Artificial Intelligence was set on “easy mode”, the referee closed his eyes on 3 penalties that should’ve been whistled for Chile, the opponent.

My friend is very happy with his new purchase, especially the arcade mode but he doesn’t understand some things:
Why do the players fail so many passes?
Why do they walk at the end of the game, is Sosa a bug?
Why do they only defend at 7 or even 6?
Why is the team using 4-3-1-2 when 4-3-3 is demanded?
I told him to check in the “strategy menu”… I must be wrong, my friend is Sabella.

Vamos Argentina.

Hola amigos,

After another easy victory in this WCQ campaign, this time over Uruguay (3-0), Argentina will tonight face Chile at Estadio Nacional in Santiago.

What are your expectations?
Another victory?
Sabella’s 4-4-2 or Messi’s 4-3-3?

Vamos Argentina.

Hola amigos,

We all know that Spain is the reference. To reach historical success between 2008 and 2012, they didn’t fall asleep on Barca’s wonderful midfield. Qualitatively, Del Bosque managed his group of players perfectly, even when his boys were arguing eachother in the clasico, and called the best. Quantitatively, it was excellent.

For Spain:

82% of the players used at Euro 2012 were there at WC 2010 and 61% were already present in 2008 with Aragones, the previous coach.

For Argentina:

At Copa 2007, only 61% of the players called in 2006 were kept by Basile. Yes, we junked in 1 year what Spain ignored in 4.

At WC 2010, only 30% of the players called in 2007 were named by Maradona. Señor Pekerman said that the second objective of WC 2006 was to prepare WC 2010. Diego’s answer was clear: he retained only 26% of the Pekerboys.

At Copa 2011, only 52% of the players called in 2010 were selected by Batista.

Against Paraguay with Sabella, only 43% of the players called were there just one year ago.

These are facts. Of course, when you fail you tend to changes things. But Spain doesn’t change their elements all the time… and they don’t fail.

Do you think we can make it by being short-term minded?

Hola amigos,

After Paraguay and what Messi calls “a triumph”, here comes Peru!

This is the possible lineup in which Higuain and Lavezzi would turn around Messi:

———————–Romero——————-
Zabaleta—–Fernandez—–Garay——–Rojo
———————Mascherano—————-
————-Gago—————-Di Maria——
Lavezzi—————Messi————-Higuain

Brana is suspended and Sosa is out of Sabella’s 4-3-3. Mascherano is coming back.
I still suspect our coach to use his conservative 4-4-2 for this away game, with Sosa starting.

What do you prefer? 4-4-2 or 4-3-3? Sosa or Lavezzi?

Vamos Argentina.

Hola amigos,

Argentina will host Paraguay next week-end for the WCQ campaign.

Here is Sabella’s probable lineup, according to me:

———————-Romero—————–
Zabaleta—–Fernandez—-Garay——Rojo
Sosa———Brana—–Gago——-Di Maria
—————-Messi—–Higuain————

Apparently doubtful, Gago would not be replaced by Biglia in the starting lineup, according to Sabella.
Mascherano’s suspension and the lack of trust in Biglia could be Sabella’s excuses to use 4-3-3 with Di Maria as a central midfielder.
Coloccini is injured and is replaced by Desabato (!).
Aguero was called already injured so Kun traveled to Ezeiza to show his knee to the AFA doctors. Obviously still injured, as expected, he is currently in the plane back to Manchester…

Well, I guess many of us have been highly disappointed with Sabella’s formations and management…
We have incompetent people in charge of our beloved Argentina.
But, at least, we have the most beautiful fanatics!

Vamos Argentina.

Hola amigos !

PSG faced Ajaccio yesterday in Corsica and I was there, at the stadium, to watch Pastore and Lavezzi. Unlike last year, I haven’t much to say…

Pastore was used in a 4-3-3, in the “Iniesta role”, in midfield. He is learning the position and tried his best to defend properly. He didn’t catch lots of balls but managed to do well tactically. His defensive style was similar to Lucho’s. The game was locked and PSG players were static and carried the ball far too much. His laser pass that leaded to PSG’s best opportunity was awesome and reminded me of Riquelme (it made me realized how much I love Roman). Nene and Menez weren’t defending properly which pushed Pastore to be some kind of side defensive midfielder at times… especially in the last 30 minutes after the exclusion of… Lavezzi.

Lavezzi is very powerful and fast. Impressive. Ultra-efficient on counter-attacks (we all know it). Unfortunately, he dribbles a lot, and without a target-man like Cavani or Ibrahimovitch, he’s a bit lost on the field. He was aggressive when defending and got red-carded.

It was nice to watch these 2 argies live at the stadium but the game was boring. Paris are not a team at all, yet.

And you, which argie players have you watched live recently?

Vamos Argentina!

Hola amigos,

Argentina will face Germany on the 15th of August. Sabella and his collaborators at AFA (Bilardo/Grondona) have released another poor list including players like Sosa, Brana, Guinazu, Rojo…

The NT coach mentioned to the press that he was probably going to use 4-4-2 instead of 4-3-3 because for Sabella, that “system is difficult to use against the Germans”. What I understand between the lines is that he doesn’t know how to convince his midfielders to defend 4-1-4-1…

Sabella said he’s counting on Burdisso for the future.

We can obviously expect this starting lineup:

———————–Romero———————-
Zabaleta——-Fernandez—–Garay———Rojo
Sosa———-Mascherano—-Gago——-DiMaria
—————Messi———-Higuain/Aguero—–

Sosa will start for sure, as Maxi Rodriguez is out (injured).
Plenty of Germans will be absent: Schweinsteiger, Gomez, Lahm, etc.

The game could look close in terms of quality and result to the friendly played just before WC 2010 (1-0)… or not.

What would have been your lineup to defeat Germany?

Vamos Argentina.

Hola amigos,

Maradona has been fired by his employer, in Dubai.
Will Batista have better results at Shangai?
Sabella didn’t have the time to have some at Al-Jazira…

Why does AFA hire such mercenaries?

Vamos Argentina.

Hola amigos,

Spain won the Euro competition again and it wasn’t really a surprise.
In the past, I never really watched these games which used to be pretty boring.

Seems that things has changed for some time, and maybe you will agree with me?
Since Barca’s reign and tactical innovation, international tacticians’ approach has changed regarding modern football.

Italians love the game for its tactical aspect and Prandelli showed the world that Italy, traditionally defensive minded, could compete with the best midfield ever (Barca’s), thanks to creativity and speedy short-passing calcio. Other nations in Europe seem to have evolved a lot too in that aspect, including France and Germany. Sometimes the results are not as expected but the way to succeed is positive for the game (attacking).

I remember those days in 2006 when we were discussing about our terrific tactical and competitive advantages… That the best way to defend was to keep the ball thanks to Riquelme… That our typical futbol built on possession and patience was the solution to everything…

In 2012, have we become tactically retarded?

Please click on your choice, 1) or 2), and lets check the proportion!

Vamos Argentina.