Diego: if FIFA fined him, how would he pay? Jewelry?
To the relief of FIFA flacks everywhere, the World Cup will have Lionel Messi. That is enough to make them happy, along with their lovely, made-up seeding rule that should ensure safe passage for Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Andrei Arshavin and… Giorgios Karagounis… but they’re not in full-on party mode just yet.
After all, there’s still some serious business to attend to: the rather wild and unhinged comments by Diego Maradona after their 1-0 win in Montevideo on Wednesday night.
From Marcela Mora y Araujo’s wonderful blog in The Guardian yesterday:
“You lot take it up the arse,” were Diego Maradona’s words to the press immediately after his team secured a place at next year’s World Cup finals. It was almost adding injury to the insult when he scanned the room and added, “if the ladies will pardon the expression”. Looking increasingly Botox-ridden, the angry yet victorious Argentina coach was somehow able to raise a nervous chuckle from those on the receiving end of the abuse.
He wanted to dedicate the triumph to the fans back home and especially those who bothered to cross into Uruguay, to his girls Dalma and Giannina, and to his squad, who worked like never before for the 1–0 result. “But certain people who have not supported me, and you know who you are, can keep sucking,” he added.
Grotesque and undignified, Maradona then grabbed his genitals with both hands, signalling some sort of manly insult to the TV cameras in the tunnel outside the dressing room.
Not much to get upset about there, is there?
FIFA politely disagrees. Quoth Blatter himself: “The reports we have received so far leave us no other alternative but to ask the disciplinary committee of Fifa to open a case against the coach Diego Armando Maradona,” which I’ll take as a roundabout way of saying they’ll slap him in the wallet a bit after listening to an equally-unhinged defense from the beleaguered coke vacuum. After all, Blatter and co. are, at least in name only, supposed to be the moral high ground on this sort of thing (though we’ll overlook their hamfisted attempts to make the World Cup selection process for 2018 and 2022 look somewhat equal and fair).
Diego’s outburst made me think a little on other classic manager videos, and so, I’ve slotted some other classics below.
FIFA are a calvacade of whimsey and maradona is an arse clown.
This guy is a complete asswipe. He takes one of the better squads in the world, is blessed with some of the best players in the world, turns it all to s**te, and now he feels vindicated?
There is no pejorative foul enough for this miserable, pompous ass.
Sure there is. He’s a c**t. A retarded c**t.
I think Maradona has even exceeded the c-bomb. We need R. Lee Ermey to invent a new obscenity for the bastard.
I gotta love anyone who is this brazen and delusional. Hoping they win it all under him so the soccer world implodes from madness.
More like implode from the crushing gravity of the blackhole that Maradona’s astronomically sized ego would create after snorting 2000 lines of coke.
Well sure, that too. But you KNOW some idiot running Madrid would fire whoseits to bring in Maradona, because he won a World Cup!
Oh god. I hadn’t thought of that. That would be an epic disaster.
That would be a hilarious disaster.