Getting your player ready...
Should Argentina string together three more victories, 49-year-old Diego Maradona would become just the second man to win a World Cup as a player and a coach, joining Germany’s Franz Beckenbauer.
For all his frivolity, Maradona was a model of restraint on the eve of today’s meeting with two-time World Cup champion Germany, which has looked equally imposing in its run to the quarterfinals.
“There is no need to talk about our opponent,” Maradona said. “We are exclusively focused on our side — on our team. And we’re going to show this on the pitch (today). I was very calm and collected, in the same way my players are feeling now.”
