Diego Maradona offers to manage Argentina for free | OneFootball

Diego Maradona has offered to manage Argentina for free following the nation’s disastrous World Cup campaign.

The South American powerhouses only progressed from the group phase with a late victory over Nigeria before being dumped out by France in an entertaining 4-3 defeat.

Maradona was in attendance at every game as a FIFA ambassador.

After the exit, he offered his services – happy to do so without a salary – eight years after guiding his county to the World Cup quarter-finals before a 4-0 hammering by Germany.

With doubts surrounding the future of current boss Jorge Sampaoli, who has a contract until 2022, Maradona was asked would he be keen on the job during an appearance on a Venezuelan TV show and he said: “Yes, and I would do it for free. I wouldn’t ask for anything in return.”

“People think I am happy but my heart is heavy,” he said of Argentina’s elimination. “I feel really bad that everything we built with so much effort we destroyed so easily.”

After his contract was not renewed by the AFA back in 2010, Maradona has only taken charge of two clubs since, both in the UAE – Al Wasl between 2011 and 2012 and Al Fujaira last season.