Peckerman leaves Argentina job

Necronomicon

Knee-jerk reaction? He did make a couple of errors in judgement, but they did have a great tournament up until today.
No link, they're just saying it on the beeb.

super_furry

RTÉ have confirmed it - http://www.rte.ie/sport/2006/0630/argentina.html

ronbyrne2005

He didnt give messi or aymar or saviola any time today and lost to a technically weaker german team,argies played well untill requelme went off,tevez was even tracking back around his own penalty area.

KdjaCL

Pekermans squad in 1997 U-20 world Cup

1 GK Leonardo Noeren Franco 20 May 1977
2 DF Leandro Damián Cufré 9 May 1978 Argentina Gimnasia LP
3 DF Walter Samuel 23 March 1978
4 Juan Serrizuela 25 January 1977
5 MF Esteban Cambiasso 18 August 1980
6 MF Diego Markic 9 January 1977
7 FW Diego Quintana 24 April 1978
8 MF Juan Román Riquelme 24 June 1978
9 FW Bernardo Romeo 10 September 1977
10 FW Pablo Aimar 3 November 1979
11 Pablo Rodriguez 7 March 1977
12 GK Cristian Munoz 1 July 1977
13 Fabian Cubero 21 December 1978
14 DF Diego Placente 24 April 1977
15 Martin Perezlindo 3 January 1977
16 Nicolas Diez 9 February 1977
17 Sebastian Romero 27 April 1978 Argentina Gimnasia LP
18 DF Lionel Scaloni 16 May 1978



Kerr's

1 GK Derek O'Connor 9 March 1978
2 DF David Worrall 12 January 1978
3 DF Robbie Ryan 6 May 1977
4 DF Colin Hawkins 17 August 1977
5 Aidan Lynch 29 August 1977
6 Stephen Murphy 5 April 1978
7 MF Niall Inman 6 February 1978
8 John Burns 4 December 1977
9 Michael Cummins 1 June 1978
10 Thomas Morgan 30 March 1977
11 MF Damien Duff 2 March 1979 England Blackburn Rovers F.C.
12 David Whittle 2 December 1978
13 FW Alan Kirby 8 September 1977
14 FW Neale Fenn 18 January 1977
15 FW Glenn Crowe 25 December 1977
16 GK Paul Whelan 4 September 1978
17 DF Desmond Baker 25 August 1977
18 FW Trevor Molloy 14 April 1977

Mad innit?



kdjac

leeroybrown

Even if they had made it to the final and lost it unluckily playing well I'd still say the odds of him going would be better than 50:50.

bohsman

KdjaC wrote:

Mad innit?



kdjac

Was just thinking about that, both went on to manage the National team, Pekerman seems to have made the team his own picking a lot of players he had managed before etc whereas Kerr bottled it and tried to be Mick McCarthy.

How different would the Irish National team look now if there was proper money, support and youth structures in place here instead of relying on British teams looking after the 15/16 year olds going over.

Endurance Man

Why he didnt bring Messi on i will never know .

mewso

Endurance Man wrote:

Why he didnt bring Messi on i will never know .

As good as Messi is I think it's a mistake to hang it on not bringing him on. Messi is young and ino it showed whenever he played. He constantly tried to do it all himself and be the next maradonna. Not the man to bring on in your time of need.

Big Chief

taking riquelme off was a huge mistake..

bye bye argies, shocking reaction to kick the guy in the gonads at the end aswell, I wonder just what was said there, must have been harsh to get a swift kick in the gonads none the less..

Thought they played brilliantly up till this game and even this game for the first 60mins, they started to turn dissapointing when riquelme left the pitch, There marking and diamond formation around the ball up till then was second to none and it started to slip afterwards.

Not surprised he left the job, think if they never won in any form he would have left, never know.. chances are he was asked to leave but done it in a more dignified manner without having to get the sack

kinaldo

Argentinian FA have still to accept his resignation

more suprisingly

http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/07/02/d60702040332.htm

Argentine football fans swallowed their disappointment at their World Cup exit on penalties but on Saturday called on coach Pekerman to stay in his post despite his stated intention to resign.


Newspapers showed polls suggesting most fans wanted Pekerman, who led the albiceleste to under-20 world titles in 1995, 1997 and 2001, to stay on -- or else for ageing veteran Carlos Bianchi to take on the post.


Pekerman, 56 and credited with the blooding of a raft of young stars, including Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, had been in the post only two years, replacing Marcelo Bielsa who, was in charge of Argentina at the last World Cup.


According to a poll in La Nacion daily, three in four people said no to the question "should Pekerman quit the national team?"

Just 20 percent said yes.


Clarin and Ole dailies ran a similar poll with a similar result, finding 73 percent of fans backed Pekerman.


But if he is not swayed by their loyalty and steps down the fans want to see Bianchi, former coach with Boca Juniors and who recently ended an unsuccessful stint with Atletico Madrid, installed.


For Clarin, 54 percent backed Bianchi if Pekerman goes with former star Diego Maradona way behind on 12.3 percent.


Ole found that Bianchi scored a 38 percent vote ahead of 28 for Pekerman if he stays in contention.

Maybe he'll do an Aragones...

Lex Luthor

He's recommending Maradona to replace him.....he's definitely lost his marbles