Diego Maradona Not Helping Argentina’s World Cup odds
By: Daryl | October 29th, 2008
You won’t be massively surprised to hear that Diego Maradona’s imminent appointment as Argentina coach has had a negative impact on the albiceleste’s World Cup odds.
Before Alfio Basile’s resignation, Argentina were 5-1 to win the World Cup (and they weren’t even playing particularly well).
But the news about El Diego has seen those odds move out to 6/1. Latest World Cup winner odds via Paddy Power below, plus an explanation as to why those odds have moved (as if we needed one).
Here’s how Paddy Power sees it:
“It’s been proved many times that you need tacticians more than motivators in international football and it remains to be seen whether Maradona possesses those qualities. Maradona was a player with few rivals and is rightly idolised in Argentina but very few of the greatest players have gone on to be great coaches – ultimately we think it would do more harm than good to what is a strong Argentinian team.”
“With Maradona’s limited coaching experience and turbulent personal life it would be akin to Gazza taking charge of the England team.”
Latest World Cup 2010 winner odds:
5/1 Brazil
6/1 Argentina
15/2 Spain
9/1 England
11/1 Italy
11/1 Germany
14/1 Holland
20/1 France
22/1 Portugal
28/1 Russia
33/1 Ivory Coast
40/1 Paraguay
50/1 Cameroon
66/1 Mexico
66/1 Croatia
66/1 South Africa
66/1 Czech Republic
66/1 Nigeria
66/1 Turkey
66/1 Serbia
80/1 Sweden
80/1 USA
80/1 Ghana
100/1 Senegal
100/1 Australia
Category: World Cup 2010
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