Uncovering the Controversial Departure of Alfio Basile from the National Team: New Details Revealed

Last month Alfio Basile was in charge of uncovering a pressure cooker. Despite the time that has passed, Coco revealed details that were unknown about his controversial departure from the National Team, when he was facing his second cycle, after the first stage of the nineties in which he won two Copa América titles (1991 and 1993). ) and the elimination in the round of 16 of the World Cup in the United States, involved in the scandal of Diego Maradona’s positive doping.

After the World Cup organized by Germany in 2006, the legendary coach had his revenge in the national team when José Néstor Pekerman resigned from his position. And in his first interventions he formed a team that was characterized by aesthetic play with performers of the stature of Lionel Messi, Juan Román Riquelme, Juan Sebastián Verón and Hernán Crespo, among others.

The fabulous production of the Albiceleste team was not enough to win a new continental conquest, given that in the competition that was held in Venezuela, the Coco team reached the final, where they surprisingly lost to Brazil. And the inmates in the locker room began to prepare the strategist’s departure. “At that moment I knew that the waters were moving. I saw that there was a movement between the players and some managers, Argentina was going to qualify anyway. I came rotten with a couple of players, whose names I will never tell you… It was a time to leave,” the former Racing player had said at the time. And his statement went around the world when he dared to name names: “I was in trouble, Gaguito, because as always Mascherano was the starter and he wanted to play. So with Maradona as a friend…

Recently, in a visit to the ESPN studios, the Bahian gave more details about the event that hastened the end of his second cycle, to give way to the Pibe de Oro. “I would have to say it to his face, but I think he was with a personal drama. He can’t have any complaints about me, because I put everything in Boca and they sold him to Real Madrid for millions of dollars. He was saved forever. “If he complained about me… Everyone should think what they want,” Basile began in his story. And he continued: “He often came to talk to me, because he wanted us to sell it. He asked me if he had any acquaintances and I had acquaintances everywhere. I always spoke very highly of him. And when they sold it to Spain, they had asked me what I thought about it; and I was surprised that he was distant with me.”

“It was strange because I put him in First Division, I put him everywhere and he played a phenomenon. He deserved it, because I didn’t give him anything; but when I found out that he was riding that thing he bothered me. I didn’t hear it from his mouth. I found out from another source, but I didn’t tell him anything. What was he going to tell him? “Everything was already said,” he closed. On the other hand, when he referred to Riquelme, the former strategist highlighted the support he felt from the current president of Xeneize: “Román supported me. He is a phenomenon, but he didn’t have to support me in anything. He left because he believed I had been cooked. What happened with Gago is that he was jealous of Mascherano, because he was the starter. Sometimes I put them together on the court, but he never said anything to my face. When he was with me he was subdued and calm; That’s why he gave me hell.”

Finally, he warned that he still cannot say the real reason for his resignation, because he had decided to leave before the Qualifiers match against Chile. “I felt betrayed, but I still can’t tell it. That person is always in Europe, I can’t name him. In Riquelme’s tribute match I was able to catch him a little, but I didn’t have him face to face,” he concluded. Basile’s departure from the National Team gave rise to several stories about his differences with the team, but the former coach never aired the details of his resignation or who was at the center of the conflict.

2024-03-25 18:50:04
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