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BUENOS AIRES, July 6 (Xinhua) -- The resignation of the national team's coach, Gerardo Martino, is another chapter in the crisis that is currently facing Argentine soccer, which is unprecedented and it is still uncertain whether it has hit rock bottom.
The former Barcelona coach's departure from Argentina's national team was a result of the structural situation due to the lack of real management within the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and a serious economic crisis in the majority of the country's soccer clubs.
However, it wasn't just the administrative side of things that have gone wrong. The sporting side with the national team's recent defeat to Chile in the 2016 Centennial Copa America along with soccer star Lionel Messi's retirement from international soccer added dismal to Martino's exit. A dark immediate future has been painted for the team.
Surely the death of Julio Humberto Grondona in July, 2014, after presiding over the AFA for 35 years uninterrupted, revealed a crisis that had already been brewing within the soccer association for several years.
"Don Julio" had built a power system where he was the only one that was able to make the really important decisions and he also was the only one with the power to say yes or no in the association.
When Luis Segura, Grondona's right-hand man, took over as AFA president it did not prevent an internal leadership bid starting which has continued to deepen since then and has left the soccer entity in a virtual acephaly.
Argentina's change in government, on December 10, 2015, put into check the first division tournament's television transmission system, which had been in the hands of the government since 2009.
Argentina's new president Mauricio Macri's promise to gradually cut funds accelerated the dispute between the AFA's various leading sectors.
Also, a complaint regarding embezzling funds ended in a court case in which Segura was among those charged, along with other leaders and the three chefs de cabinet during Cristina Fernandez's last government. Despite this, Segura is still the AFA president.
The institutional crisis began deteriorating the sporting situation for different Argentine soccer