MARADONA COULD BECOME IRAN'S COACH



TEHERÁN -- President of Iran, Mahmud Ahmadineyad, wishes that the argentinean footballer Diego Armando Maradona becomes the next coach of his country's National Team, as informed by local newspaper Ebtekar.

The paper writes that the President nodded his head when a group of journalists asked him about the rumours that the player would visit Iran and take over the NT.

These rumous started on October 6th, when the president of the Football Federation of Iran, Alí Kafashián, revealed that they were getting ready for Maradona's visit.

The story behind his visit to Iran starts in 2007, when the player sent an autographed Argentina shirt as a gift to the president.

"I've already met Fidel (Castro, president of Cuba) and (Hugo) Chávez (president of Venezuela), so now I want to meet Iran's president. I'd like to meet Ahmadineyad personally," Maradona said a couple of years ago.

Months later, the president of Iran sent a letter to him in which he thanked the "kidness of his excellency towards the well-directed and revolutionary nation of Iran."

Iran and Argentina, however, don't hold a good relation after Buenos Aires accused several high ranked Iranians of being the intelectual responsibles of the bomb that killed dozens of people in the jewish center (AMIA) in Buenos Aires in 1994.


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