PROFILE-Soccer-Batista Quiet Man makes strong giant Maradona

BUENOS AIRES, 2 November (Reuters) - Argentina coach Sergio Batista named in place of Diego Maradona on Tuesday, was part of a tradition of the halves in the command center of the national team. In the footsteps of Ubaldo Rattin Americo Gallego 1960 and in the 1970s, Argentina helped Batista to his second world 10 Santonio Holmes black jersey
title with Maradona in Mexico in 1986 to win.
A quiet man, unlike Maradona, was the lead Batista Argentina Football Association (AFA) president Julio Grondona choice during the search for Argentina from controversies in the Maradona. Batista, 48 is on Tuesday seems to be the choice of coach Carlos Bilardo, 1986, for which Batista was one of the pillars of two world championships, also contributes to the final in Italy in 1990, Argentina reached.
Argentinos Juniors went to the modest club from Buenos Aires, Maradona was launched with clever tactical awareness and good ball control.
A high point in his career when he helped the club win national titles miss Argentinos Juniors and South America and just the opportunity to become world champion in 1985.
The death of the father Batista contributed to his fall into drugs in his late career as a player and Maradona, has been fighting for cocaine addiction in the 1990s.
The loss of my father agreed with my addiction to drugs, Batista said in a recent television interview. I felt lost, I had something great, and I fell in every direction and stopped to play football, said Batista, who had during a race two years with the future in Japan Tosu intensive treatment for their drug-address. GOLDA career Olympic coach led primarily with pieces from the second division in Argentina and Uruguay on his appointment to the youth teams of the AFC in 2008 and went to Argentina under-23 Olympic gold medal in Beijing. His next Olympic Games was the embryo of the national team could be taken when Alfio Basile has quit unexpectedly in late 2008 and when Maradona Grondona do not think he was the man for the job.
The team, which Brazil lost in the semifinals, including former world under-20 champion Lionel Messi, Angel Di Maria and Sergio Aguero and Juan Roman Riquelme, a player older than Maradona but excluded it seems that going back to Batista. If Maradona was refused a new contract after his side were crushed 4-0 to Germany in the quarterfinals of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Batista took an interim basis. He led a 1-0 victory over Ireland a 4-1 defeat against world champions Spain to Buenos Aires and a 1-0 defeat against Japan in Saitama. Now officially lead the 4 Brett Favre Purple jersey
man to Argentina late 2014, his first game against the eternal rival and World Cup hosts Brazil in a friendly match in Qatar on 17 November.
His real test comes next year when the seat of Argentina Copa America, the South American championship, not since 1993, when he raised his latest trophy won.