Argentina not to renew Diego Maradona's contract     STAFF WRITER 9:34 HRS IST Buenos Aires, July 28 (AFP) The Argentine Football Association (AFA) elected not to renew Diego Maradona's contract as national team coach, AFA spokesman Ernesto Cherquis Bialo said. Doubts had surrounded the 49-year-old's future ever since a tense meeting with AFA president Julio Grondona on Monday and newspapers had spent the day speculating on who would succeed the man who led the team to victory as star player at the 1986 World Cup. "The president put some salient points to Maradona in their long conversation yesterday," Cherquis said. "And the executive committee unanimously resolved not to renew Maradona's contract as technical director of the national teams." As an inexperienced coach, Maradona's record over 18 months was less than stellar and the team only qualified for the World Cup finals by the skin of their teeth.