The Sao Paulo coach has replaced Tata Martino as Albiceleste boss but starts at a major disadvantage following Leo Messi's retirement from internationals.
A year after being moved up to train with the first team, the fourth highest-scoring defender in professional football history still went to his club, Rosario Central, on his bicycle and let his mother know what time he would be back. Two years later, in 1979, he had saved up enough to buy a Renault 12. Edgardo Bauza spent the money from his first contract on a pair of jeans and some shoes, simple pleasures his father's job could not afford.