FIFA is investigating Argentina national soccer coach Diego Maradona's profanity-filled tirade on live TV. (Pablo Porciuncula/Getty Images)FIFA has opened an investigation into Argentina coach Diego Maradona's profanity-filled tirade on live TV following a World Cup qualifying win over Uruguay last week.
"The disciplinary case has been opened," said FIFA spokesman Nicolas Maingot Wednesday. "We have no further details for the moment."
After the win, which earned Argentina a spot at next year's World Cup in South Africa, Maradona directed crude expletives at his critics.
Maradona called it an outburst and said he had nothing to apologize for.
He called his media critics "anti-Argentine" and said he won't forgive them for wanting "Argentina to be left out of the World Cup."
Maradona led Argentina to the 1986 World Cup title and the 1990 final.
He has been under intense pressure during Argentina's erratic qualifying campaign, which included a 6-1 loss in Bolivia and a 3-1 loss to Brazil at home.
Before winning against Uruguay, polls showed a majority of Argentina's fans thought Maradona was unfit to coach the national team despite his success as a player.
Julio Grondona, Argentine Football Association president and the man who appointed Maradona, said on Friday that "if it were another coach or player, the matter would not have had such importance."
"Everybody knows he's a temperamental person and he's already said he won't speak like that again," said Grondona, who is also Blatter's No. 2 official at FIFA.
