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Diego Maradona (born 30, October, 1960), troubled soccer icon, has been offered the post of Argentine football couch at a meeting with Julio Grondona, the head of the Argentina Football Association, on 28 October Tuesday in Buenos Aires, is expected to be confirmed as the post of coach on 30 October Thursday, his 48th birthday. If Maradona, Veteran Argentine football great, accepts the position, he is expected to trip Glasgow within three weeks’ time to observe his new charges play Scotland in a friendly at Hampden. But he is expected to settle some minor issues before accepting the offer. To make a remark about the new post, he said, “The offer has attracted me a lot. As soon as it is confirmed, I will start working, but I can say I am very proud. We have to keep talking. There are some things to resolve. This is just beginning.”

Argentina’s most watched, favorite and respected cable television station, Todo Noticias; and Clarin newspaper’s website reported that Maradona, the football legend, had been named to replace Alfio Basile, the ex-couch, who quit on last 16 October.

For this new position, he had to face competition from Carlos Bianchi, the former coach of Boca Juniors and San Lorenzo coach Miguel Angel Russo along with Sergio Batista who took the Under-23 squad to Olympic gold in Beijing in August. But finally the legend has got the offer though his previous coaching experiences and performance have not been satisfactory. The great led Deportivo Mandiyu in the year of 1994 and Racing Club in the year of 1995, but in both cases he abandoned the post before the agreement was up. Moreover, for the further assistance the Argentina Football Association is likely to appoint 1986 World Cup-winning coach Carlos Bilardo as team manager or general director.

After the meeting, Maradona said to the media to give a strong hint that he would like to accept the new offer to take charge. He said, “As soon as it is confirmed, I will start working, but I can say I am very proud. We will continue talking tomorrow”. “The idea is to start working immediately after the official announcement with the players who are in Argentina and then take the first plane to talk to the ones in Europe,” accords to Fox sports. He also said, “Now we’re just waiting for it to be official. The idea is to get started right away when it becomes official.” He added, “I’ll put together the team, I’ll choose the players and I’m sure Carlos will take care of a ton of other things.” Now Argentine people wait to see, can Maradona and Bilardo combination present the next word cup to the nation as 86 where Maradona was captain and Bilardo was couch?