He was one of the best defenders in the late 70s to beginning of the 80s.He was incredible in the air despite his height was only 173centimeters.Tough as nails,great positioning,hard-tackling player,great ball-playing skills and he was a long free-kick taker and penalty taker in a lot of matches too.He played in Argentina 2 world cup(78,82) unfortunately in 86 he had a problem with Diego Maradona(the real ace of that team) and then he left the camp. He is also the
fourth person in the world to be a
player, technical director and president of a club, the other cases are Babington,Bernabeu and Beckenbauer.
Outside of his extordinary football career and leadership,
I would say he is a bit terrible person that have a lot of egos in himself and have a lot of affairs and problems with other people,
@harms story is one of the example of stories.
Bad side of Passarella-had an affair with his teammate wife before WC1986
-had a silly rules in World Cup 98
-a lot of problems with his teammates because of his egos
-shitty president and one of the most hateful(if not most) presidents of all time in the hsitory of River Plate.
According to Diego's biography
he had a feud with Passarella. Passarella and Valdano accused Maradona of using a lot of cocaines, Maradona then told Valdano that Passarella was having an affair with the wife of another Argentinian player (
Alberto Tarrantini). At that point,a lot of senior players who sided with Passarella changed to Diego's side.After that Passarella had a stomach injury and he couldn't play all of WC 1986.
The Kaiser accuses 10 of consuming cocaine in Italy and Diego, after yelling at him
"you are a button and a liar" , retrucates him with an alleged love affair with the partner of one of the National Team players. The magazine "El Gráfico" organizes a photo together, that of the hats, to show a fictitious coexistence. Finally, Pasarella cannot play the World Cup due to a health problem, and there is a central conversation in the script: "
Between us things are not good, and we both know it. But I would never have wished you such a thing."
In the non-fiction,
Maradona assured that the historical fight occurred because "he had stolen the captaincy .
" There were always doubts about Passarella's intestinal condition and in the same statement, Diego stated that the 78 champion did not want to "play the 86 World Cup because until Thursday before playing against Korea he was a starter, he suddenly fell ill"
"I have the full conviction that with Daniel we would also have been champions but Tata Brown broke it and well, we were no less without him ... what will it be," he added.
In another interview, 10 warned that "
Passarella only kicked out of the World Cup in Mexico , because he had Menotti in his head and said that you couldn't play with Bilardo. However, I also had César in my head and I was champion with Carlos ".
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We had fought in the concentration of America de México. I was fifteen minutes late to a meeting together with the rebels. Those were, according to Passarella: Pasculli, Batista, Islas ...
Then we ate a speech by Passarella, in the style of him, good dictator, how the captain was going to be late. I let him talk
'are you finished?' I asked him.
'Well, then let's talk about you now.
Billardo wanted to built and gave all of freedom to "Maradona".So,the first thing he wanted to do and should do was to gave all of powers to new capitan "Maradona".Billardo had rebuilt his team in new style's of playing , changed a lot of 11 players and soft powers.So,an oldhead like Fillol and Passarella who was like a leader of 82 world cup disliked it.It could even say that Fillol and Passarella were Menotti's favourite not Billardo.And then the" titan clash"had started.