http://sagittariusinjapan.wordpress.com/2006/06/23/best-team-worst-hair/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:00:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://sagittariusinjapan.wordpress.com/2006/06/23/best-team-worst-hair/#comment-5 Sagittarius in Japan » Argentina’s problems of Pekerman’s making Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:37:36 +0000 https://sagittariusinjapan.wordpress.com/2006/06/23/best-team-worst-hair/#comment-5 [...] I do wonder what Pekerman was thinking with his substitutions. It is true that goalkeeper Roberto Abbondanzieri’s withdrawal was forced on him by injury. However, withdrawing flagging playmaker Juan Roman Riquelme for defensive midfielder Cambiasso was a flagrant infraction of the rules of beautiful football. And not just because of the hair. Rather, it was because it smacked of a defeatism not associated with Argentinean football, at least not the electrifying football that has been embraced under Pekerman’s reign. It was the sort of tactic you would expect a certain dour-faced, balding man who until recently was leading one of the British nations to have employed; namely thanking your lucky stars for a lead of any sorts, and then bringing off your most creative players and replacing them with destructive ones. [...] [...] I do wonder what Pekerman was thinking with his substitutions. It is true that goalkeeper Roberto Abbondanzieri’s withdrawal was forced on him by injury. However, withdrawing flagging playmaker Juan Roman Riquelme for defensive midfielder Cambiasso was a flagrant infraction of the rules of beautiful football. And not just because of the hair. Rather, it was because it smacked of a defeatism not associated with Argentinean football, at least not the electrifying football that has been embraced under Pekerman’s reign. It was the sort of tactic you would expect a certain dour-faced, balding man who until recently was leading one of the British nations to have employed; namely thanking your lucky stars for a lead of any sorts, and then bringing off your most creative players and replacing them with destructive ones. [...]

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