Diego Maradona has said he would love to meet the Argentina players after their 3-0 loss against Croatia left their World Cup hopes hanging by a tread.
Argentina currently have one point from two games and will need to beat Nigeria on Tuesday in order to salvage their hopes of progressing from Group D. The 1986 World Cup winner was speaking on Venezuelan TV channel Telesur and called Argentina Football Association President Claudio Tapia 'the culprit' for the situation.
It cost us too much to be where we are for Croatia to hit us for three goals and to leave with our arms crossed without putting a foot in.
I'm furious and very upset inside, because anyone who has worn that shirt can't see it being trampled like that by a Croatian team that isn't Germany, that isn't Brazil, that isn't Holland or Spain. But there is a guilty party and the culprit is the president of the AFA. Everyone just accepted it when Sampaoli came in with computers, with drones, with 14 assistants. I think there is a total lack of authority on Tapia's part.
Maradona went on to claim "I would love to hold a meeting with them." It comes as the players themselves had to respond to rumours there had been a mutiny within the squad against manager Jorge Sampaoli.
