"One does not like to talk about these things. We can play well or badly, but going back would be a serious mistake.'d Be letting down not only a coach, but an entire country. There is much talk of that famous match with Chile, that day we played very badly. But we must also say that four days before we played a war against Uruguay in the River stadium and there it was shown that the team left it all "with this statement Javier Mascherano, the captain of the Select Argentina since Diego Maradona's coach, responded to serious allegations of Alfit Basile, son of Coco, the professor Carlos Dibos and Russian Ribolzi, indicating that Maradona had "conspired" to Basile no longer the coach of Argentina.

"I never saw a conspiracy against Basile or anything like it," Mascherano told TyC Sports in from the campus of the AFA in Ezeiza. The Liverpool midfielder arrived Tuesday in the country and joined Jonas Gutierrez and Sergio Romero to training, being the first players in the preliminary list of World Cup Maradona.

Then came his turn to speak of the team that will participate in the World Cup. To the captain's idea of play depends on what the technician decides who just begin to delineate when the group is complete in Ezeiza. "Not much has been made yet. We are few players who are training and is not the final list. We must wait for all and that outline a game idea," he said Mascherano.

With regard to the list, the former River took pity on those who remained and did not rule out any of those who are between 30 to remain in the final list of 23 "did not talk to Zanetti, Cambiasso or Gago. It is a very complicated situation, must be immense sadness.

Later, as a player myself bothers me that discredits some players, giving names as discarded. All of these names were linked to a possible list (for White and Insaurralde Garcé). Are decisions taken by the technical and should be respected, "he said.

Finally, Mascherano explored the possibilities for Argentina to win the Cup in South Africa: "The win championships the teams, not individuals. Come to that, being a great team. I have no doubt that this team will do everything effort to reach as high as possible. " So be it.