Jorge Sampaoli was not the disease. It was just a symptom.
These words of Sebastian Fest in the La Nassion newspaper published as soon as Argentina was eliminated from the 2018 World Cup, were so embarrassing that they came to the very core of the problem, making a profound cut of every proposed apology from the corrupt governing body of the football that wearsto a great extent the blame for everything.
This rough road, which ended in the Russian city of Kazan in the hot summer of 2018, is only our current point of reference, but it all actually began in Buenos Aires back in time in 1978 after winning the first world cup of La Albiselle
On the Monumental field, while the captain of the country hosting the tournament, Daniel Pasarella, was raising his trophy over his head, there was a rising star in the Argentine Football Association (AFA);Julio Grondona. Only a year later he would be elected president of the headquarters, but hardly felt in the country ( still under the drunkenness of the tournament triumph, remembered quite bitterly in general) that from then on, they will follow almost 40 years of corrosivethe favorite game from live soccer of people corruption.
In order to understand the successes and failures of the Argentine team, they must be seen in the context of the AFA governing body;an organization long ago among the most corrupt and inadequate in world football, sinking just after Grondon`s death. The fact that he so long exercised his power with impunity is a blob on a great country, but even more terrifying is that, ultimately, only his corrupt government actually held the headquarters above the water, as is evident from the scandals after his death.
Take, for example, the failure of Argentina at this world championship -;a mixture of disorderly preparation, shameful resources (both financial and human at certain posi tions) and bad coaching. This is a thumbnail of AFA and it does not seem to improve things in the future even if Lionel Messi did not amaze the world with a decision not to give up for the second time from the national team.
With the presence of one of the oldest tournament teams, Argentina has shown what it would mean for her future to dismantle the young talents convoy to the men`s team. The Gauchers won the World Cup by 20 in 2001, 2005 and 2007. There were now 20 players in Russia, and seven of them were world champions 11 or 13 years ago, and only three of the last three teams in Mondiale to 20 (2011, 2015, 2017) in the current squad of Sampaoli played only two. This is an eloquent proof of the downfall of talent in the absence of a system for developing young talents and a clear direction from the football leaders.
Therefore, as Argentina`s Gold Generation should be defined this between 2010 and 2016, when world champions to-20 matured football. Howe ver, a glance at the winning major teams in the same period shows that the champions are countries with a clear long-term development plan:Spain (2010 and 2012), Uruguay (2011), Germany (2014) and Chile (2015 and 2016). Does this only highlight the lack of one on the part of AFA and the failure of the task to squeeze the maximum?
