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World Football: El Diego: A tribute

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El Diego: A tribute

26/11/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - World Football, El Diego: A tribute

A tribute to Diego Armando Maradona following his death at the age of 60

Former Argentina footballer Claudio Marangoni and Argentine writer Martin Caparros join the team to pay tribute to Diego Maradona.

We pay tribute to Diego Armando Maradona. We hear from Claudio Marangoni, who played against him in his early years in the Argentinean league. He describes Maradona as being like a hurricane. Antonio Nunez, who signed him as the unlikely coach of a Mexican second division team remembers how playful Maradona was. And we also recall Maradona's demons and his shock expulsion from the 1994 World Cup for doping.

Picture: Diego Maradona of Napoli celebrates during a Serie A match between Napoli and Fiorentina (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images).

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