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ARGENTINA TO OFFER DIEGO MARADONA NEW FOUR-YEAR DEAL
Baku, July 15 (AZERTAC). Diego Maradona will be offered a new deal that would keep him in charge of Argentina through to the summer of 2014 - when Brazil stages the World Cup.
He led Argentina to the 2010 World Cup quarter-finals in South Africa and the contract would mean he would be still be coach if they qualify next time. The Argentine Football Association president Julio Grondona will meet the 49-year-old next week. Maradona had hinted he would quit after the 4-0 last-eight defeat by Germany.
Grondona intends to have talks with Argentina`s former World Cup-winning captain no later than Wednesday of next week to discuss extending his contract. Despite leading Argentina to victory at the 1986 finals in Mexico as a player, Maradona was a controversial appointment as coach in 2008.