It will increase the epic with the passage of time.
Because repeating the Bilardo team will be increasingly difficult.
There are many reasons and reviewing them deserve space.
Daniel Lagares
06/29/2021 12:01 AM
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 06/29/2021 12:01 AM
Like one of those perfect ending movies where the boy and the girl end up together, are happy and eat partridges.
One of those that the public never tires of seeing.
And in which he lets out a relieving sigh with the poster of
The End
, an "ahhhh ...." when Jorge Burruchaga defines the pipe before the exit of the German goalkeeper.
It was 35 years ago, the epic will increase with the passage of time because repeating Mexico 86 will be increasingly difficult.
There are many reasons for this and reviewing them deserves their own space.
Weather vanes, the Argentines turned like a sock: oblivion, contempt when they did not silently repudiate the departure of the National Team to Mexico and massive celebration in front of the balcony of the Casa Rosada when Diego Maradona offered the Cup to the crowd.
This is how we were, this is how we are.
There were some reasons. The Selection had achieved the classification with a courage from Daniel Passarella and a last touch from Ricardo Gareca, on June 30 of the previous year. The team did not appear. In November, the tribune looked sideways at the two 1-1 friendlies against Mexico in Los Angeles and Puebla and made a joke of the preseason in Tilcara with 14 players, all from the local environment. The team did not appear. Nor in the March-April tour: 0-2 with France, 2-1 with Napoli, 1-0 with Grasshopper, 0-1 with Norway and 7-2 with Israel.
Frond winds blew.
The most soccer branch of the government of Raúl Alfonsín moved chips to displace Carlos Bilardo.
Attentive, Julio Grondona sent the National Team to Mexico a month before the tournament.
Throwing out the coach when the team entered the final stretch to the competition would be a very high political price
.
There was a stopover for a friendly with Junior, in Barranquilla.
The team was a disaster in that 0-0.
Days later there was a team meeting, alone, without the coaching staff
.
The tenor of that meeting circulated in all the press that had arrived in Mexico City while the National Team was rushing through the last friendlies: 3-2 at América and 3-1 at Neza and Puebla.
Of the 22 chosen, seven played abroad
: Diego, Burruchaga, Valdano, Pasculli, Trobbiani, Zelada and Passarella.
The Kaiser, "survivor" of '78 suffered that gastroenteritis or something like that which marginalized him.
Of the 21 remaining, Almirón and the archers Islas and Zelada did not have minutes.
Bochini and Trobbiani, a handful.
Maradona and the Cup. The unforgettable postcard.
The team around Maradona that Bilardo thought about since he took office in 1983 appeared at just the right time.
And his best version in the final three games where the system changed and the 3-5-2 drawing prevailed.
Pumpido;
Clausen, Brown, Ruggeri, Garre;
Giusti, Batista, Burruchaga;
Maradona;
Valdano, Pasculli was the initial against South Korea resolved with a comfortable 3-1 with two from Valdano and one from Ruggeri.
Olarticoechea by Batista and Tapia by Pasculli were the changes.
In Diego's 1-1 goal with Italy, there were two initial changes: Cucciufo for Clausen and Borghi for Pasculli.
Vasco returned to enter for Checho and Enrique for Bichi.
The classification closed with 2-0 to Bulgaria and the same initial formation and the changes and changes that the coach made against Azzurra.
Jorge Burruchaga and the run before the goal that defined the tough game against the Germans.
Photo: Archive
In the "kill kill" zone, Pasculli returned to the starting lineup and scored the 1-0 goal against Uruguay. Vasco re-entered through Batista and Garré received the second yellow. All changed. With clarity, against England, the 3-5-2 appeared much more clearly: Pumpido; Free Brown; Ruggeri and Cucciufo stoppers; Giusti and Olarticoechea on the wings, Batista in the middle, Enrique and Burruchaga inside and with mobility and dynamics, which allowed more freedom in the definition zone for Maradona, while Valdano went everywhere. Before the English there were some minutes for Tapia; in the same formation, Bochini had his ephemeral appearance in 2-0 to Belgium and in the final, Trobbiani replaced Burruchaga after the championship goal.
It was going to be the Platini World Cup.
Or from Zico.
Maybe Rummenigge's.
More unlikely Lineker's.
It was Maradona's.
With Justice.
With a team armed to suit you, with the right interpreters accommodated at the appointed time.
Merit of Bilardo who, sometimes alone, believed what he was convinced of.
Merit of the players, dedicated to the cause since that night in Barranquilla.
Glory to the campones.
The eleven who started as headlines at Azteca.
As if millions of photos fell from a broken piñata from a palazo, the images of Diego dribbling Shilton, Burruchaga crossing Schumacher, Pasculli's touch to the Uruguayan bow, Ruggeri's header to the Koreans fly in the air , the roasts in the concentration of America, the walk of the Cup from hand to hand on the return plane, the balcony, the people, the players, the coaching staff.
That past born 35 years ago in Azteca he took a credit until the appointment in Italy where another team
, with another Maradona, with other companions and other methods reached a new final. End that was the end of a cycle.
In the following 35 years there were spring love affairs and devastating disappointments for Argentine soccer narcissism. The two Copa América 91 and 93 with Coco Basile are sepia triumphs. The good team of Passarella did not give for more in France 98. The Olympic title of Bielsa does not hide the failure of results in 2002. Pekerman, the second stage of Coco, Diego on the bench and neither could make the leap of quality. Batista was a sigh, Alejandro Sabella touched the glory, which he and the 2014 squad deserved.
In the last stretch of history, the political crisis of the leadership deepened by the death of Grondona had its correlation.
Martino resigned due to the lack of support, the intervention appointed Bauza, who lasted seven months and was replaced by Sampaoli, after a successful management in Chile.
He failed on the field and in the dressing room during the World Cup in Russia.
Since 2005, all the coaches had Lionel Messi.
No one could make Maradona and '86 forget.
Another movie is made and the boy and the girl are far from meeting to be happy and eat partridges.
Audiovisual production: Giuliana Pasquali