Carlos Tevez Omission Was Biggest World Cup Error for Sabella’s Argentina

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Published: July 14, 2014

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Sunday night’s World Cup final was meant to be Lionel Messi’s career-defining glory. Instead it turned into disaster.

For months, fans had anticipated that the Argentina man would cement his place amongst the immortals by leading his country to success in the home of their fiercest rivals.

However, Messi and his team collapsed inside the Estadio Maracana, falling to a Mario Goetze strike in extra time to let Germany become the first-ever European team to lift football’s ultimate prize on South American soil.



Goetze’s volley broke the hearts of thousands who had made the trip across the border to Rio de Janeiro, along with millions more watching the game back home, but Argentina can have no complaints about the outcome.

Throughout the night, particularly during the initial 90 minutes, it was the South American giants who squandered all of the game’s best chances.

Messi ranked high on the list of culprits after missing a glorious chance early in the second half.



Argentina failed to score in more than four hours of football from the semi-final onwards. It is evident that the Albiceleste were missing that cutting edge in the final third.

After all of the pre-tournament plaudits regarding manager Alejandro Sabella’s wealth of attacking options, it was unquestionably the lack of firepower that let the South Americans down.

What makes matters 10 times worse is the fact that, according to Jamie Sanderson of Metro, the answer to their problems was sunning it up in Disney World rather than dazzling fans on the biggest stage of all.

Argentina needed Carlos Tevez, and Sabella managing to strain the relationship between them to a point where the Juventus man felt he could no longer represent his country simply has to be remembered as his greatest blunder.



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