2023-05-20 06:30:50
The dream Team. Or rather, from lack of sleep. Because unlike the Pink Panther, who counts sheep when he can’t sleep to fall asleep, I make lists with things about soccer: players whose last names begin with A, Argentine teams that won in Brazil, names of stadiums… So the other One day, very sad about the death of a great friend and unable to sleep a wink, it occurred to me to make a list of great Argentine players or cracks who have not succeeded in the National Team.
Of course, this statement already presents a series of ambiguities: what differentiates a great player from a crack? And what do we do with Maradona and Messi? They are not cracks, they are megacracks. I could say then that, behind them, Kempes is crack, and below would be the great players, for example, Di María. It then remains to resolve the dilemma of what it means “that they have not succeeded in the Selection”. Because all the great Argentine players, at least once, went through the National Team. When I say that they did not succeed, it is not that they have not emerged as world champions (because that includes only three teams) but that, undeservedly, they have played very little in the National Team, or that they have played a lot but always below their level in their club (like Kun Agüero, for example).
Thus, close to dawn, I put together my ideal eleven of great players who had no luck in the national team. In the bow, Gatti. Third goalkeeper in the 1966 World Cup, he saved something with Menotti in the 1978 preview, especially in the famous match under the snow in kyiv. Little for a genius like him. The two best 4’s I’ve seen are Negro Ibarra and Néstor Clausen. Ibarra had the misfortune (or luck in the end) of running into a dogmatic coach like Bielsa who almost never called him up, and Clausen played the first game of 1986 and nothing else. With number 2 I changed the rule: one who played everything and no one remembers him, despite being a great player: Luis Galván. What 2! But, because of his low profile, I don’t think he’s on any list. The 6 is Enzo Trossero, a great player in the shadow of a crack like Daniel Passarella. 3 there are no good ones, Argentina has a chronic problem with the wings.
Out of 8, an extraordinary player, one of the best in history: Miguel Brindisi. Unusually, he played only in the 74 World Cup, and not in 78 and 82, after Menotti and the dictatorship (forgive the redundancy) prioritized the national team. A crack, seriously. I don’t like the 5 that don’t score, so I leave Claudio Marangoni and Fernando Galetto out, and I put Leo Astrada on. Out of 10, another crack: Bochini. He played for a little while in ’86, and his big game was against Germany in ’84, always with Bilardo. Bochini was for much, much more in the National Team.
The 9 is another crack: Ramón Díaz. He played only 82 and nothing more, because of his fight with Maradona. Due to lack of space, I will only say that today it would be worth 100 green sticks. On the left, the Perotti Monkey. And right wing? There are not so many. The Heber Mastrangelo? We follow her in the next insomnia.
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