Thursday, June 17, 2010

Professional opinion or Jealousy?


Recent Pele comment on Maradona: "Maradona accepted the job as he needed work and needed the money. I saw how Argentina qualified with difficulty. But it is not Maradona's fault; it is the fault of those who put him in charge."

Maradona replied back "Pele should go back to the museum and stay there"

I think this comment is more of a jealousy rather than a professional opinion.
DUH! I don't think any coach will coach a team for free. Maradona is a bad coach, I agree, but it is the Argentinian federation to blame. Pele himself is making all of his public appearance to build his image to charge million of dollars for advertising. It is well known that he does not appear publicly for the love of the game.

He turned his football history into a big business, which is not a shame, but don't blame Maradona if he is looking for money.

A worse comment came from Cameroon legend, Roger Milla on Samuel Eto:

Eto mentioned just before the World Cup and as Cameroon in the final preparation stage, that Eto had “brought lots to Barcelona and Inter Milan but never anything to the Cameroon team. It’s also a question of discipline. Cameroon is waiting for him to react,”

This comment can come from a careless teenager not from a great player with big history Roger Milla.

Roger Milla either jealous from Eto success (which in my opinion he is better than Milla) or he has no idea what he is talking about.

Roger Milla played 102 games scored 28 goals for Cameroon.
Eto played 98 games scored 44 goals for Cameroon.

We all know that African players who play in Europe don't show their best in African Cups, which is played in the midst of European season. Eto is one of the exceptions, he is the all times top scorer for Cameroon scoring 18 goals for Cameroon in all African cups. He won it with Cameroon twice.

In the last World Cup qualifications, he scored 8 goals, to be the top scorer for Cameroon group and lead Cameroon to qualify to the World Cup.

Sorry Milla, but I think your comments are of pure jealousy, and has nothing to do with reality.

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