I can not believe the world of gossip and unprofessionalism that surrounds the Argentinean National side.
There is a Manager still in place, not for long, but still employed, and all the suits are already talking about the candidates to replace him.
There are different views.
Those who want continuation despite the shortcomings so far. Some on this group were against Batista being the Man in charge to begin with, but believe that he was put in position and now is time to back him up.
There are those who want to start all over again. New Manager, new people responsible for the youth teams, and to get rid of the director of national football, in this case Carlos Bilardo and his number 2 Humberto Grondona.
Problem with this approach is the latter is the son of the FA president.
Lastly there is Grondona Senior, who wants a new Manager, same Director of National football and his same assistant, and he wants some of the players to be axed.
Normally there are meetings, votes, sides, opinions and in the end, Grondona gets what he wants by his own decision.
My opinion on the Manager front is well documented on previous blogs.
Regarding the structure I gave also my opinion previously.
The one subject that still remains to be analysed is axing players.
Players should not be a decision for Grondona to get involved in. But there is nothing that he is not involved in.
He does not like anyone who voices an opinion and talks publicly about internal matters.
Tevez paid the price for this in the past, and nearly missed the Copa America because of it.
The argentinean FA president says that some players have no commitment towards the team.
Just imagine for a second that instead of football, these people were all working in a hotel.
The directors and Managers, fight and bicker all the time, they all have their ideas about how the place should be run, and have the chance to put their point across weekly at the committee meeting.
Problem is that all their ideas are always dismissed by the top guy, and that is it. Txhey can have millions of good ideas, but they never materialised, as that committee has absolutely no power.
Go down to the personnel and staff that work in that hotel (i.e the players), how can they be motivated to perform with all the trouble above them? How are they suppose to respect the members of the committee if they keep embarrassing themselves week after week by accepting that Grondona makes all the decisions for clubs and country?
Add to all this that these players are in no need of stress, money or more fame.
Yes, playing for your country, at the sport you chose to make a living out of, should be the pinnacle of your career.
But honestly, would you like to go and work in that hotel for those bosses?
I know I wouldn’t.
Change players? What for Mr Grondona?
Even financially, when other nations want to play friendlies against Argentina, they want to see Messi, Tevez, Pastore, Mascherano, etc.
I can’t imagine that any single one of those contracts states that they want to see Grondona there.
Let the Managers decide who they select, and who plays. That should be done on merits, form and ability.
Not by executive decision like you are use to.
Before commenting on their commitment, look at the big picture, put yourself in their shoes and think if you would travel 22 hours every time toplay a game and to be surrounded by all that chaos.
There is a Manager still in place, not for long, but still employed, and all the suits are already talking about the candidates to replace him.
There are different views.
Those who want continuation despite the shortcomings so far. Some on this group were against Batista being the Man in charge to begin with, but believe that he was put in position and now is time to back him up.
There are those who want to start all over again. New Manager, new people responsible for the youth teams, and to get rid of the director of national football, in this case Carlos Bilardo and his number 2 Humberto Grondona.
Problem with this approach is the latter is the son of the FA president.
Lastly there is Grondona Senior, who wants a new Manager, same Director of National football and his same assistant, and he wants some of the players to be axed.
Normally there are meetings, votes, sides, opinions and in the end, Grondona gets what he wants by his own decision.
My opinion on the Manager front is well documented on previous blogs.
Regarding the structure I gave also my opinion previously.
The one subject that still remains to be analysed is axing players.
Players should not be a decision for Grondona to get involved in. But there is nothing that he is not involved in.
He does not like anyone who voices an opinion and talks publicly about internal matters.
Tevez paid the price for this in the past, and nearly missed the Copa America because of it.
The argentinean FA president says that some players have no commitment towards the team.
Just imagine for a second that instead of football, these people were all working in a hotel.
The directors and Managers, fight and bicker all the time, they all have their ideas about how the place should be run, and have the chance to put their point across weekly at the committee meeting.
Problem is that all their ideas are always dismissed by the top guy, and that is it. Txhey can have millions of good ideas, but they never materialised, as that committee has absolutely no power.
Go down to the personnel and staff that work in that hotel (i.e the players), how can they be motivated to perform with all the trouble above them? How are they suppose to respect the members of the committee if they keep embarrassing themselves week after week by accepting that Grondona makes all the decisions for clubs and country?
Add to all this that these players are in no need of stress, money or more fame.
Yes, playing for your country, at the sport you chose to make a living out of, should be the pinnacle of your career.
But honestly, would you like to go and work in that hotel for those bosses?
I know I wouldn’t.
Change players? What for Mr Grondona?
Even financially, when other nations want to play friendlies against Argentina, they want to see Messi, Tevez, Pastore, Mascherano, etc.
I can’t imagine that any single one of those contracts states that they want to see Grondona there.
Let the Managers decide who they select, and who plays. That should be done on merits, form and ability.
Not by executive decision like you are use to.
Before commenting on their commitment, look at the big picture, put yourself in their shoes and think if you would travel 22 hours every time toplay a game and to be surrounded by all that chaos.