Your initial comment was that Argentine players come up short consistently for both club and country with rare exception…the statement is wrong…give it up…Brazilian players with rare exception come up short in European club football – fact.

Argentina exports more footballers to Europe with a better success rate than Brazil and thats the bottom line.

Now let’s compare with Argentina and their most famous player, Maradona, yes when he was in Napoli he single handedly won the Serie A…okay but maybe his success was an exception. No because then you remember legends such as Batistuta in Fiorentina, Ardilles at Tottenham, DiStefano and Redondo at Real Madrid and Kempes at Valencia. Javier Zannetti and Esteban Cambiasso in Inter, Veron and Simeone in Lazio, Crespo and Ortega at Parma, Heinze at Manchester United, Aimar and Ayala at Valencia, Sorin and Riquelme at Villareal, Maxi Rodriguez and Sergio Aguero at Atletico Madrid, D’Allesandro in Portsmouth. And now the player who will rival Rooney as the best young player in the world for years to come, Leo Messi at Barcelona.

No other country apart from possibly France exports more proven players and does so with more success than Argentina.

The comment about Brazilians is bewildering and shows your very limited World football knowledge – any small European teams ridden with mediocre Brazilians making a big impact on the biggest club stage…no, I didn’t think so.

Brazilian’s are notoriously bad imports for their failure to adapt to Europe’s weather and culture where as Argentine’s are renowned for their versality – Crespo has now become an Italian citizen where as ‘Fatty’ Ronaldo can’t wait to escape back home to the Brazilian league to end his playing days much like his predecessor Romario.

And come February when the Rio Carnival comes round even ‘The Pretty Boy’ Ronaldinho disappears back home for a knees up – you may also note that Emerson at Middlesbrough was having such a good time that he disappeared only to emerge a month later.

Yes, you can list a lot of Brazilians making it big in Europe right now but you can name more who have failed – and more importantly you can name more Argentines plying their trade in the world’s biggest leagues and clubs.

I also wouldnt define success as “being on a squad”. If you want to examine the impact look at the brasilian exports, they have a far great impact on many more leagues and on many teams, and mainly as the featured set of players. The argies are talented, that wasnt my point, but like england and their over hyped national teams over e past 50 years, en masse, the argies dont live up to it, and 1 semi with a largely dominant argie squad and a speckiling of roster spots througghout europe isnt a smashing success.

Added to that, the best four leagues in Europe were won with at least one Argentine in the squad, as was the Uefa Cup and Champions League.

Enough said.