A year ago, Diego Maradona coached the Club Al Wasl in Dubai. He has achieved nothing yet. Now burst also the last chance for a title this season, his team lost the GCC Champions League final in a penalty shootout

We all have probably: a dream or an idea we want to become what once, when we are big. Doctor, lawyer, singer or just football could be on this list. But what wants to be one even if it already is one of the greatest footballers in the world? Footballers have dreams, what they want to do later? To be coach of the Emirati Club Al Wasl is not definitely on the wish list of a player.

Diego Maradona was once one of the greats. Who was allowed to call themselves already otherwise with impunity the hand of God? He had a vision of early what post he would take after his legendary time as FIFA World Player: the coach of Argentina. He saw himself as the only people the truth, which was allowed to bear this title. That he realized this wish, we all know. We also know that this dream is quickly burst. It was even worse: he got a ban for life, for Argentine clubs. So, Maradona looks today like a politician in exile, banished from the home. A year ago, it moved Maradona to Dubai. The eighth wonder of the world, you had titled it there probably quite to his liking. Convinced had him probably the money and not the slimes: are whopping three and a half million euros plus a private jet for two years on his contract.

Maradona is circling his love handles

A year later now but follows the sober balance: miracle he has brought no cups let alone. Occupied Al Wasl last year still the fifth Patz of twelve teams, the Club now only on the eighth made it. Success is different. Last the team could get the double of League and Cup 2007, it won the GCC Champions League 2010 (here tell GCC). With Maradona the Emiratis had most large, they wanted to build on the successes. Last Sunday there was the last hope this year to bring still the first trophy as coach home. It was the GCC Champions League final. The chances were not even bad, won 3-1 in Bahrain Maradona with his boys in the first leg. As we know the enthusiastic Argentines, he danced omitted after the victory, left circle his Hüftfett in the stiff Bahrain, embraced and kissed his players left out. To win, with a large portion of certainty he step now so in the finals. A bit it reminds even of Munich as Maradona also had a final dahoam. But so the comparison will not succeed. Finally, the Emirates not Germany, Dubai, not Munich and the GCC Championships are probably also the UEFA Champions League. There is an outward and return leg, each team in the Gulf and a trainer has a finale everyone dahoam. Nevertheless, this cup for Maradona was worth not less than Jupp Heynkes his. The joy remained barred from two at the end, both times the penalty shoot-out blew up the big dream.

In his career as a player, Maradona had everything always at his feet – in an emergency in his hands. He then sold it as known as the hand of God. This is not possible in the coach business, he had to learn to do so again once bitter. Here, he can tell players what to do, what tactics against these and those teams might work, how you can win at the end. Play the player must but alone, are any other coaches in the world just on the sidelines and watch, rowing arms, jump can curse like Maradona. He can not run on the field, take the ball and just throw it into the goal. And so explained the defeat: "It was not in my hands".


Majid Nasser sees red

At the end it is not defeat but, hurts the Maradona, it is especially the how. The football world had with Bayern, had so well at the end as no one Chelsea the Cup, could Maradona as opposed to for his guys only ashamed. It was not the goal in the ninth minute, which sealed the downfall. Goalkeeper Majid Nasser was forced to leave the place after. A short scramble and the joy of Muharraqs after the goal provoked him so that a strong SAP with its massive skull missed the scorers. While Nasser already loses a lock over incredible 17 games in the League. In March of this year, he beat Al Ahli coach Quique Sanchez Flores on the back of the head easily. The reason: Al Ahli beat Al Wasl in the semi-final of the Etisalat Cup.

Apparently it Maradona saw as divinely ordained, that the Champions League did not see this lock - finally it does not belong to the domestic competition. But as so often proved Maradona as a coach that he does not always all right. That he can make water but no bread. But maybe he just can do nothing about it. Perhaps, Al Wasl is just, no team can bring to the top with the right attitude. In the 79 minute had Maradona helplessly watch, as was the second player with red square. His protégés have not learned it well to control emotions and anger. Right in front of the Bank of his coach, Al Wasl was rotten players Rashid Essa, Rashid Abdulrehman saw the yellow card for it. You may not know it whether or not provoked Essa was. He may have been simply no desire to play more. He made immediately without further ADO it the goalkeeper of Nasser and brutally stretched Abdulrehman to ground. Now nine left his team-mates on the lawn. Sportsmanship is different. Muharraq won 3-1 at the end. Thus, it was 4-4 after two games, players competed in a penalty shootout. It should not be simply the football God probably thought to himself. Who is so brutal means, has lost nothing on the stairs of the winner. Juan Egnacio Mercier scored his ball in the sky thus greatly reminded of Sergio Ramos of Real Madrid. Also Ramos attack rather than bolt the leather into the goal in the semi-final against Bayern in the star. Al Wasl player Mubarak Hassan scored his in the arms of the opponent's goalkeeper. The thousands of fans in the stadium had nothing to celebrate, while they had tried until the end of their team to assist with loud cries. It has not helped. So solidifies my theory, whether there is perhaps not yet a God. I once wondered if not God look at all games of Maradona's is he accompanied as a coach to thwart his victories at the end. As a small revenge on life, to show who is the true God.