[dpapathanasiou]

"For example when Germany's football team beat Argentina in this year's World Cup I couldn't help but think that the German coach knows something the other coach (legendary Diego Maradona) doesn't."

I agree with you in general, but that's not the best example you could have used there.

Maradona spent most of the tournament boasting about not needing a gameplan, and saying things things like: "Nobody ever told me where to play. So I shouldn't have to tell Messi where to play, either".

[philwelch]

I wonder what Pep Guardiola (Messi's coach at Barcelona) thought about that remark. Messi, like many players[1], has played significantly better for his club than for his country.

[1] The entire England squad, for example.