Tim Vickery

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1,032 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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Indo Sport · Tim Vickery bumper World Cup preview | Neymar returns, can Messi retain? · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

in a few weeks it is an extraordinary story it's a tale of two Lionels really because Argentina 2018 they're an absolute shambles and he'd already flirted with retiring from the international game and he really thought then that right that's going to be it he's not going to bother with this anymore and Scaloni takes over as a coach on one single ground he's cheap and

They have to pay off their coach, Sampaoli, who was on a long-term contract.

Scaloni just happens to be there.

He'd been one of the observers of Argentina's opponents during 2018.

He's never coached a senior team in his life.

Diego Maradona at the time says, he's a nice lad, this Scaloni, but you wouldn't pick him to direct traffic, let alone the national team.

And you couldn't really disagree with him.

And look at it now.

It's not only, remember, Argentina hadn't won a senior title.

since the Copa America of 1993.

They've now, like that Spain side of a decade and a half ago, they've won a World Cup sandwiched between two continental titles.

It is an extraordinary run of success, exactly at the point where you thought that Messi might give it up.

Part of that is Scaloni, I think, managing... He's a special person, Messi, I think, in that

He's very much a kind of Maradona of the PlayStation era.

And that introverted nature, I think for a long time, it kind of intimidated his teammates.

Because imagine, you get picked for Argentina, all you want to do is win Messi's approval.

And he doesn't say anything.

And when Scaloni took over, he didn't pick Aguero for a while.

And the rationale was that Aguero is Messi's great mate.

He only talks to Aguero.

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