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The tarnished idol still gleams
BUENOS AIRES. Apr 7: Diego Maradona's most memorable present was a soccer ball at the age of three. "I slept clutching It all night," he said at last year’s World Cup. reports AP.
The youngster had talent to match his dreams. At 15. he won a spot on the national team. At 18. he led Argentina to the world Junior championship. At 20. his star carried Boca Juniors to the Argentine First Division championship.
That was a decade ago. Since then. Maradona has played on the world state, winning the acclaim of teammates. opponents and fans as the sport's best player, the heir to the great Pele, and maybe even better.
After being named most valuable player in the 1986 World Cup for leading Argentina to the title, the young man raised in a Buenos Aires Shantytown received 100,000 dollars for an exhibition match played tn Saudla Arabia.
Now he reportedly receives three times as much for a single soccer clinic In Japan.
His contract with Napoli pays him more than 2 million dollars a year. Commercial endorsements are worth perhaps six times that anjount. He drives a Ferrari. His weekend home has its own private soccer field.
On Saturday. Maradona's career. livelihood and life-long passion were put on hold.
The captain of Argentina's national team and leading scorer for Napoli in Italy's first Division was suspended for 15 months — the rest of this season and all of the next — testing positive for cocaine. The ban will be recognised by FIFA and enforced worldwide.
Fans last view of Maradona on a soccer field, for a while and possibly forever, was Napoli's March 17 victory over Bart tn which the brilliant, moody forward lifted a pass with typical pinpoint accuracy to a teammate who headed it home for a goal. Napoli won. 1-a
"I've had enough. I'm tired of struggling. I'm retiring for good." he told the Milan newspaper Corriere Della Sera last Tuesday during the long flight home from Rome.
Four days earlier, the Italian league announced Maradona's urine sample taken after the Bari match had tested positive for cocaine. He faced a maximum of a two-year suspension.
Maradona wouldn't directly answer the question: did he take cocaine?
Teammates say he did'nt and are sure their tempestuous, Indomitable leader, who is capable of carrying a team on his broad back and thick thighs, will change his mind and play again.
"As well as ever," is the prediction of Oscar Ruggieri, a defender on Argentina's 1986 and 1990 World Cup teams.
Others aren't so sure.
"Coming back after a long layoff, at his age, won't be easy." said Eric Weil, sports editor of the Buenos Aires Herald. "And It’s not clear he really wants to."
Argentines remember his million-dollar wedding two years ago and his penchant for lavish cars, trips, homes. The shiny stud in his left ear is a diamond. He puts on weight easily. He recenfiy fired his longtime business manager amid reports of squandered funds.
"I wouldn't like to see him wind up like just anyone else. He was so splendid," said Roberto Gomez, a middle-aged lab technician.
"I don't know that he'll end up poor, but the myth of Maradona is finished." said Claudia Bilbao, a young marketing specialist and university lecturer.
Maradona is an idol in Argentina. He demonstrated that talent Is rewarded; the poor can become rich; Argentina’s best Is as good an any in the world. President Carlos Menem last year named him the country's honorary sports ambassador."
The idol is tarnished, but still gleams.
Maradona is still the all-time leading scorer for the Boca Juniors, the Argentine national Team, and is the highest scoring foreigner to play in the Italian League, considered the world's most competitive. Three years after signing with Napoli in 1984. he led tt to its first league championship in 83 years Last year, he led It to their second.
Die-hard Napoli fans tattoo his face on their arms. A street bears hfs name. Expecting miracles. Neapolitans compare him to St. Genero. the city's patron saint.
Lately, however, with the applause has come criticism. His play isn't as stellar and Maradona has feuded constantly with Napoli management. He publicly said he wants out of his contract, which has two seasons remaining on It. He sits out practices and games
Off the field, police investigating narcotics trafficking and prostitution have questioned him, and a woman not his wife claims she bore his child.
Many Argentines don't care.
"Nothing has happened. Nothing has happened. We love Diego in good times and bad." thousands of fans chanted at a soccer match Friday where Maradona was the Invited guest of honour. He didn't at tend.
In words that now sound prophetic, Maradona also said at last year's World Cup. "When I was nobody. I was very happy"