The former deputy director of the Argentine national team, Humberto Grondona, has dusted off an old controversy that involved his father, Julio Grondona, Oscar Ruggeri and Diego Armando Maradona. Although his version of events was contrary to what was publicly said at the time. When? At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa What happened? According to Humbertito, the one who vetoed Oscar Ruggeri of the coaching staff who led the 10 in that World Cup was not that of the AFA but Maradona himself. And so he said it.

“Maradona did not want Ruggeri in the coaching staff and I told him. The problem was that my father wanted to take him to the World Cup in South Africa and Diego didn’t want him, “said Don Julio’s former president’s son.

Humberto commented on how the arrival of Carlos Salvador Bilardo was conceived in the period from 2008 to 2010. “We called Carlos Bilardo as Director of the Selections and he told us: ‘If Maradona wants I will keep my position, otherwise not.‘. So, we met Diego, who arrived in a sports car, and my father explained the situation to him, to which he accepted very excited and without conditions due to the presence of Carlos.

“Once he accepted, we reunited with Diego again and when I write Ruggeri as an alternative coachhe automatically told me: ‘I tore up that paper because it doesn’t work‘”, he specified in a note on the YouTube channel of’ Loco y el Cuerdo ‘, a program of the journalist Flavio Azzaro.

“When it all happened, I asked what happened to Ruggeri and they told us that neither Diego nor his family wanted it,” he continued.

Furthermore, the former Racing and Talleres de Córdoba coach said that Ruggeri was the person who “betrayed his father the most” for “everything he gave him”.

In turn, Grondona explained that Diego “cut himself” during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and at the same time his father did not go there because he saw “a strange atmosphere”.

“My old man saw it well during the 2008 Olympic Games and dreamed of entering the venue with Maradona as a coach. There was no way to make him understand anything else,” he explained.

“Mancuso gave him the medicines and he was an employee of Diego, that’s why he wanted him on the technical staff. And it happened when he left the national team, my father didn’t want Mancuso in the national team”, he condemned.