Mancuso arrived at the crossroads of Basile’s statements against Maradona and Gago: “Coco was angry because Diego immediately took the national team”

“That’s when I knew the waters were moving. I saw that there was movement among the players and some managers. I came in rotten with a couple of players, Gago was one of them”. With his iconic and unmistakable voice, Alfio Coconut Basile sparked controversy last week by recalling his departure from Argentina national team and hinted that some players would prepare a bed for the arrival of the Diego Armando Maradona on the reserve bench of the Albiceleste.

“Gago was in difficulty because Mascherano was always in the starting lineup and he wanted to play“, Coco said in dialogue with Radio Cologne. However, on Tuesday evening the first voice tasked with defending Diego’s actions appeared: Done Alessandro MancusoMaradona’s assistant in the national team since 2008.

Mancu was present throughout Pelusa’s entire tenure at the helm of Argentina, beyond the fight they both had over fraud years ago. He experienced this firsthand, which is why he was encouraged to refute Coco Basile’s words and He distanced Maradona from an alleged conspiracy with Fernando Gago.

“When I learned that Diego was already coach of the national team, he summoned me, called me and told me. What surprises me is when Fernando Gago is mentioned because we excluded him at the 2010 World Cup.“said Mancuso, in dialogue with Radio La Red.

“So if he had underlined that Diego would join the national team, Why is he later dropped from the call?“he added rhetorically.

He also appealed to tactical issues to justify the absence of the Boca midfielder. “If we examine the dossier, I don’t know how many games Gago was called up by us. It was the time when Mascherano was plus 10. That team had only Mascherano as supportthere was no one else because then there were Maxi Rodríguez, Verón and Di María,” he said.

In this sense, Toti Pasman, host of the Fútbol 910 series, agrees with Mancuso and recalled an Argentina match against Paraguay in which “Diego gave him a hint and Gago scolded him for doing so“. The program panel also mentioned that the current Chivas de México coach would have demanded to play on more than one occasion wearing the Boca shirt.

However, in the middle of his speech, Mancuso lightly dropped a comment in which he explained the annoyance that Basile really had about his exit from the national team. “Coco was a little angry about the situation we saw immediately after his fall“he confessed.

Basile’s comment on the impact of his statements

Before Mancuso’s response, Coco’s statements had had a strong resonance in the world of football when she had the task of revealing the secrets of a stranger born 16 years ago.

That’s why, true to his style, Basile tried to calm the situation, once again resorting to his legendary “Press silence“.

“Sharap, press silence! No more guys. It’s over! She already was! The truth is that my balls were very swollen! Hahaha”, wrote the former technical director on his social media, clarifying that he wanted to refer to his period in the national team by attaching, together with the comment, an image of himself with the Albiceleste diver.

With a funny combination of Spanish words with the exact phonetics of how the words are pronounced in English, using statements from the past, Basile tried to put an end to the controversy.