Good point Coach. I have said before that Argentina (not Holland) are the biggest chokers and talent squanderers in international football.
It is criminal that they have not won the WC for 25 years given the awesome talent they have had in that time: Messi, Batistuta, Riquelme, Redondo, Ortega, Crespo, Claudio Lopez, Zanetti, Walter Samuel, Aimar, Kily Gonzalez, Chamot, Sorin, Almeyda. Their 1994, 1998 and 2002 teams were good enough to win the WC.
If Argentina picked a team of their players from the last 20 years alone, they would have:
Abbondanzieri
Zanetti-Ayala-Samuel-Chamot
Riquelme-Mascherano-Redondo
Messi-Batistuta-Aguero
no space for Crespo, Tevez, Veron, Canniggia, Claudio Lopez, Kily, Almeyda, or Sorin!
Coach wrote:
When the curtain closes, Argentina must ask themselves, how did they waste world of the game’s greats and one of the modern era’s finest forwards. They much search for the Walter Samuels.