Sergio Batista, the coach of the Argentine U-20 squad affirmed that they didn't qualify for the World Cup of Egypt because they had "bad luck" and he said "no team" were better than them.

"No team proved superior to us. We had bad luck, like with the referee against Brazil, but I'm not putting any excuses, we didn't play well and something was missing," admitted Batista, a couple of days after his side were eliminated from the World Cup of Egypt.

"It isn't the moment to analyse, but something must have happened because we had a good team. The group tried to do the best possible. Sometimes things go well, and other times, badly."

Finally, Batista, who guided Argentina to the Olympic gold medal in Beijing last year, stated that he was responsible for Argentina's failure to qualify for the World Cup.

"I think I chose good players, they were all very good and most of them have played in the First Division, but they had a bad tournament. We couldn't give them the right mentality to confront the matches. As the conductor of the team I take full responsibility," he concluded.

In declarations to the press on Monday, Diego Maradona, the coach of the Argentine senior team stated that the elimination "doesn't change" his opinion about Batista.