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To be clear, this is just a rumour right now. Nothing more, and certainly nothing official. Plus Guus Hiddink is officially contracted to the Russian national team until July 2010. So let’s not get carried away. But…

…There are whispers being whispered that the Argentine Football Association may approach Guus Hiddink and offer him a role coaching Argentina alongside Diego Maradona at World Cup 2010. I’ll let that sink in for a second.

This rumour seem to have appeared because Diego Maradona and his #2 Carlos Bilardo apparently aren’t getting on. Bilardo isn’t just any assistant, he doesn’t just put the cones out in training. He helps El Diego with tactics etcetera. And so he’s at least partially to blame for Argentina’s World Cup qualifying shambles.

Plus, Hiddink’s Russia narrowly missed out on World Cup 2010 (on away goals to Slovenia) so he won’t have a team at World Cup 2010. The Dutchman has coached at the last three World Cup with three different teams (Netherlands, South Korea and Australia) and he certainly wasn’t planning to miss this one.

No doubt that Maradona and Hiddink would be an odd couple. I’m not quite sure what one would make of the other. But as a neutral, I’m hoping this doesn’t come to pass.

Here’s why:

I’d much much prefer to see Hiddink coaching a less fancied team at World Cup 2010. Just because having Hiddink will give that team a fighting chance. In many many ways he would have been the perfect coach for the South African team before they rehired Carlos Alberto Parreira.

More importantly, if Hiddink is co-coach then it ruins The Diego Maradona Experience. And I was looking forward to The Diego Maradona Experience at World Cup 2010. Because he’ll definitely deliver something dramatic. Either a complete disaster or a glorious triumph. Hiddink would do a lot take the edge off that. As a neutral I’d prefer the drama, but I can understand if Argentina fans feel differently.

Last but not least, it ruins the potential Maradona narrative and robs El Diego of his shot at glory. Because if Argentina win the World Cup under Diego Maradona, then that’s a story to remember. If they win it with Hiddink, then it’s Hiddink’s World Cup, and not quite as exciting.

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