Maradona in stinging attack on Pele, Platini
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June 17, 2010, Thursday
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DIEGO Maradona launched an extraordinary attack on football greats Pele and Michel Platini yesterday as he predicted he could steer Argentina to a third World Cup triumph.
"Pele should go back to the museum," Maradona said about recent criticism from the Brazilian great about his coaching ability.
"We all know what the French are like and Platini as a Frenchman thinks he knows it all," he added after the UEFA president said Maradona was not a good coach as a player.
"I feel capable of passing on to the players what I experienced as a footballer," he said in Pretoria.
"I want to be (world) champion and I have Messi, backed by a great team," Maradona said, adding that no other player in the tournament so far had come "within 40 percent" of Messi. "We have spectacular players who are not playing but who are behind, waiting for their chance," he said of Argentina's strength in depth.
Maradona dominated the 1986 finals which Argentina won in Mexico like no one has done before or since at the World Cup and Argentines hope for a repeat from Messi.
Meanwhile, two Dutch women were released on bail yesterday after facing charges that they broke a law covering ambush marketing by wearing minidresses promoting a brewery at a World Cup match.
The women are being prosecuted under the Contravention of Merchandise Marks Act, which prevents companies benefiting from an event without paying for advertising.
Police arrested the women at their hotel in the Johannesburg district of Roodepoort yesterday, two days after they were questioned at the Netherlands-Denmark game.
They appeared at Johannesburg Magistrates Court and were released on bail of 10,000 rand (US$1,300) each, with their next court appearance set down for June 22.
"We view ambush marketing in a very serious light and we urge people not to embark on these ambush campaigns," police said in a statement.
The women were among a group of more than 30 Dutch women who attended Monday's match at Soccer City wearing dresses paid for by brewery company Bavaria.
"Pele should go back to the museum," Maradona said about recent criticism from the Brazilian great about his coaching ability.
"We all know what the French are like and Platini as a Frenchman thinks he knows it all," he added after the UEFA president said Maradona was not a good coach as a player.
"I feel capable of passing on to the players what I experienced as a footballer," he said in Pretoria.
"I want to be (world) champion and I have Messi, backed by a great team," Maradona said, adding that no other player in the tournament so far had come "within 40 percent" of Messi. "We have spectacular players who are not playing but who are behind, waiting for their chance," he said of Argentina's strength in depth.
Maradona dominated the 1986 finals which Argentina won in Mexico like no one has done before or since at the World Cup and Argentines hope for a repeat from Messi.
Meanwhile, two Dutch women were released on bail yesterday after facing charges that they broke a law covering ambush marketing by wearing minidresses promoting a brewery at a World Cup match.
The women are being prosecuted under the Contravention of Merchandise Marks Act, which prevents companies benefiting from an event without paying for advertising.
Police arrested the women at their hotel in the Johannesburg district of Roodepoort yesterday, two days after they were questioned at the Netherlands-Denmark game.
They appeared at Johannesburg Magistrates Court and were released on bail of 10,000 rand (US$1,300) each, with their next court appearance set down for June 22.
"We view ambush marketing in a very serious light and we urge people not to embark on these ambush campaigns," police said in a statement.
The women were among a group of more than 30 Dutch women who attended Monday's match at Soccer City wearing dresses paid for by brewery company Bavaria.
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