"Dear Diego: It is high time that we critics say sorry, and thank you. 

We misjudged your appointment as coach. We believed that Julio Grondona, the 78-year-old president of Argentina’s soccer federation, had lost all sense of reason in asking you, a fading icon without a coaching badge, to pick up a broken national team and lead it through this World Cup. 

Well, so much for so-called expertise. 

Whatever happens between Argentina and Germany in Cape Town on Saturday, your team has been the joy of this tournament."

This is the beginning of the apology letter written by a jounalist from The New York Times to Maradona.

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