Grondona: Maradona appointment a ‘dream’

ARGENTINIAN Football Association president Julio Grondona has revealed the impending appointment of Diego Maradona as national team coach is the realisation of a long-held dream.

Maradona revealed on Tuesday night he is ready to accept an offer made by Grondona, and all that remains is for the deal to be rubber-stamped at a meeting of the AFA’s executive committee next Tuesday.

Maradona, 48 today, will take charge of the national team, while the man who coached him to success at the 1986 World Cup, Carlos Bilardo, is to work alongside him as a general manager.