1978 World cup-winning former Argentina coach Luis Menotti spoke about Messi and reconstruction of Argentina team. Here is what he had tp say:
“We are starting from false places. Messi already has a place insured in the Argentine National Team for being who he is. His absence can help the recomposition of the selections project.”
“We must re-educate the history of Argentine football. Because if we do not, we end up in that the coaches end up being complicit in driving models, which belong more to the world of business and media pressures than to responding to the needs of Argentine football. Argentine soccer is mortally wounded and times are getting shorter. You live this moment of crisis with a degraded face. It has suffered a frightful brutality in its decomposition. He has endured scenarios of discredit that must be recovered. There is a faction of cheats of liars, with faces of big business that has taken refuge in the servile modes of the media world to hide its trap.”
“But there is a minority that we want to reconstruct this cultural fact, and we are only going to do it from memory. We have to examine our cultural heritage, our soccer roots. Recompose them to be able to transmit them and rethink them in actuality. Our rich history was bastardized and damaged by the mercenary eye. The time has come to change. There is an intension of this new driving with Claudio Tapia at the head of the AFA to reverse it, to change. In the first thing that accompanied this leadership is not to try to resolve 48 hours after the elimination of the world. But there is a lack of debate about which project is being pursued and with whom. Without memory there is no solution.”
“We do not belong to a country where football appeared ten years ago. We were very important in the history of football. We can only save our football if we preserve its past. There has to be a sincere commitment to a starting point, perhaps the formation of a Committee of coaches with past in the selection and former players, who can transmit their teachings, the essence of the game”
“This debate must be a vehicle of encounter with football of belonging. The dynamic of events that has tragically turned its course is an area of extreme gravity. We must have memory, collect the inheritance and reconstruct for evolution. There must be a key to hope. A signal to take football out of intensive care. A progress does not assist in annihilating yesterday as some messengers of modernity insist on making them believe. Or we will have to give up the illusion that Argentine football, which was a fascinating game and a social phenomenon unmatched in the country, is no longer so. Although they continue appearing great players.”
“José Saramago, the Portuguese writer, novel literary prize, said that “not having memory is forgetting ourselves”. You can not think of a change of this present and prepared for a future without going over the past. It is impossible. Messi is the present but his gene belongs to the history of Argentine football, which also had exponents such as Sívori, Di Stefano, Kempes, Maradona. What it is about is to recover the idea and create a place where Messi can shine. If he were a violinist, he would have to be surrounded by the best musicians who do not go out of their way. If persecution is success, we are condemned. The debate should not be lost in the days when Messi will be in the national team or not. If we do not know what we are looking for, how do we find it? Nobody guarantees a world champion.”
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