Menotti unfiltered against Riquelme: “Because someone has hit the ball well doesn’t mean he’s a good leader”

César Luis Menotti is undoubtedly synonymous with football and an authorized word when it comes to analyzing the current situation of Argentine clubs. Today, the director of the AFA national teams and world champion as Argentina’s DT in 1978, deepened the current situation of national football by dialoguing with the program How are you? from FM Radio DSSport 103.1and left several titles.

The former Rosario coach spoke about the conflict in Boca after Sebastián Battaglia’s departure from the substitutes’ bench and the decision to include Ibarra in the coaching staff xeneize, and also the departure of Eduardo Domínguez from Independiente. To close, Menotti made an analysis of the management of Claudio Tapia at the helm of the AFA, and was full of praise.

And reviewing Eduardo Domínguez, who has stepped aside in the last hours after losing the Avellaneda Classic to Racing, Menotti was concise, and came to the defense of the now ex Independiente DT. “I have a lot of respect for Domínguez, when you are not well and you are not comfortable you have to go“, He explained.

Menotti has thus completed his judgment on the current situation of two of the biggest clubs in Argentine football, which are going through difficult times, even if very different when it comes to contrasting. Regarding Domínguez, he spoke of a respect that, without a doubt, is mutual. When it came to talking about Riquelme, it was a little more controversial and went to the bone.

As for the maximum idol of Boca, who lives a moment of tension from to alleged comparison Between the Football Council and some managers of the squad, Menotti launched: “I did not imagine Riquelme in the role of leader. When he has learned to be a footballer, he will have to learn to be a leader. Football needs trained leaders. “

Menotti, therefore, was overbearing with the figure of Riquelme, who a few hours ago called the fans ‘to be patient’ from an audio that Jorge Rial broadcast on his radio program. To close his statement regarding the vice president of Xeneize, the world champion DT commented: “You don’t have to think that to hit the ball well you have to be a good leader.”

And to close his dialogue with the radial cycle, Menotti spoke of Claudio Tapia, who since his arrival in the direction of the AFA, has entrusted him with the role of director of the national teams. “Flaco”, who now coordinates the work of all the teams responsible for the mother body of Argentine football, launched: “The goal of qualifying for the World Cup was achieved in a great way. Now the competition is something else and a lot of things happen “.

“In the 1990s, disrespect began in the Argentine leadership. The national team did not belong to the world of football, but to the business world. Today everything good has been recovered in the management of the Alfa “, closed Menotti, who days ago placed Argentina as a candidate to stay with the World Cup in Qatar, which will see its start around the month of November.