It was December 2004.
Oxford United, the winner of the 1986 league cup, was in a bad position, from second to fourth in
Kassam, the club’s distinction owner, is inviting foreign director Chris Turner to see a 1-0 defeat to Swansea – most people thought he was the new manager, including Oxford Mill., external And some players.
But instead… “He was quite strange,” Basham says former Yu striker Basham says. “Five or six boys came in, by a line. They all stood in front of us and none of them said English, except one translator.
“All the players had a wide eye when they asked, “Who are these boys?”
The boys included Diaz, Horseao Rodriguez, Raul Marquick, another coach, Goyran, Pablo Fernandez’s gymnastics coach, Dr. Rafael Giuliti and translator Giuliano Ikope.
But wait, how did it get it? Everything begins in Monaco – where Kasam and Goyran lived and Diaz had a home that played for the club.
Kassam contacted a friend of a friend named Goyran, who worked as a football agent and consultant, to help find a manager and the Monegasks proposed Diaz – who had left River Plate in
It was widely said that Diaz was not paid to become Oxford’s manager and Kassam said he had promised his share of the club for victory.
But Goyran, who has been speaking for 20 years, says Kassam Froiroka says it is not the club instead, instead paying for Diaz’s advisor and Goiran from Monaco.
And the question many people have asked – why did a manager who has five Argentina titles and the Libertador Cup came to the second round of Oxford?
Goyran says it was part of a project to reach the Premier League in five years – but after a bitter end, Diaz, now director of the Coorentian in Brazil, has never worked again in England and even Europe.
“When they came in for the first time, there was big talk about the re-development of the stadium.