Diego Maradona Is Being Blamed By Furious Argetines For Not Qualifying for 2010 FIFA World Cup

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Furious Argentines are blaming their most recent World Cup qualifying loss squarely on coach Diego Maradona.

Argentina lost to Paraguay 1-0 Wednesday, leaving the two-time world champions in danger of missing their first World Cup since 1970.

Diario Popular newspaper says in Thursday's editions that "this Maradona has shown dramatically that he wasn't born to coach, that his glorious image was useful at first, but no more."

The paper adds, "we're stuck in hell."

The sports daily Ole writes, "we're going nowhere," over Maradona's picture.