Diego Maradona: his luck and problems for coca – Investigation unit

The hand of God that helped Diego Armando Maradona score England’s first goal in the 1986 World Cup quarter-finals took him away this Wednesday, November 25, amidst an aura of glory and immortality, but also controversial.

On the pitch, the forward – playmaker and then coach – managed to conquer three continents with his genius. And so he managed to amass a fortune of over 75 million dollars.

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But off the pitch, the soccer star was a mortal who shook his dreams. His drug addiction ended up being expelled from the courts at the United States World Cup in 1994.

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That day, after a game against Nigeria, which Argentina won 2 to 1, they discovered that in addition to the passion for football, ephedrine, norephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine and metaephedrine were flowing in their veins. The punishment included the cancellation of the US visa.

Maradona suffered from the flu, but had already snorted coke in a match in which his then team, Napoli, faced Bari in March 1991. The incident, which cost him a 15-month fine, was the first sign that the “boy”, who left a humble neighborhood in Argentina to put the world at his feet, was in trouble.

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For some, his career went haywire when he arrived in Italy in 1987 at the age of 27. Although he started filling his bank accounts and earned 5 titles – including two league titles and the Uefa Cup -, he also got a capture ticket for drug possession: he was handcuffed and jailed in April 1991.

Naples and Sinaloa

At that point, Napoli fans were raving about the Argentine. His unsurpassed genius and his inspired story. In his childhood he lived in a house in the Villa Fiorito neighborhood, with a dirt floor, a thatched roof and a single room, where he slept with his 7 brothers. He walked 15 blocks to the training ground and a neighbor gave him a sandwich for lunch.

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But his discipline, his mental and physical strength, and his unwavering faith not only made him an idol, but allowed him to expand his investments. His house in Barcelona alone, adorned with diamond balls, was valued at 10 million euros; and that of Posillipo, south of Naples, was almost a thousand square meters.

And although some of Maradona’s earnings link them to the mafia, he said the Italian “Camorra” was only accepted by security; and he swore he hadn’t met Pablo Escobar. But today there is a photo circulating with a former Colombian player and members of the Envigado Office (aka “Danielito” and “Beto”), which he could not explain.

And a federal agent told EL TIEMPO that Maradona was under his magnifying glass due to his frequent trips to Colombia and specifically to the Rosario Islands, where he attended 3-day parties.

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He received a second injection of money when he arrived, in 2018, to lead the Dorados, a team in Sinaloa, Mexico, land of ‘El Chapo’ and other mafias.

“Bringing Maradona to Sinaloa is like taking a baby to Disneyland,” sports journalist Rafael Martínez wrote.

At that time, Maradona already had hotel investments in Italy and Cuba, where he lived for 4 years under the protection of Fidel Castro. In addition, in China and Italy he had contracts for sports centers that bear his name.

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They say that, in the end, his earnings were represented by the salary of the manager of the club Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata and sponsor of the group. And that the multinational Konami has paid him the rights for the use of his image in the PES video game.
All those assets will go in succession and will be distributed among his children and former companions, as Maradona was unable to cope with the threat of giving everything, due to family quarrels. They will also distribute their collection of luxury cars.

When he started at Boca Juniors, he had a yellow Fiat 128. Subsequently, fans of Argentinos Juniors gave him a Mercedes Benz 500, of which they only made 1,100. But in Italy he parked a Ferrari, which the parent company changed the traditional ostinato color to a Nero Met, to the liking of ‘Dieguito’.

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When he returned to Argentina in 1995, he asked for two red Ferraris. And he was running away from the press in a pink Scania truck that he ditched for a black Porsche when he became national team technician. And in Dubai, when he drove the Al Fujairah team, he had a blue BMW i8 and a giant Rolls Royce Ghost, the same shade of blue as the albiceleste. In Belarus, they gave him an Overcomer Hunta pickup, the civilian version of a military vehicle.

(See here all the articles of the EL TIEMPO Investigation Unit). Now the idol rests in peace and the legend begins, and the fight for his fortune and for the rights to tell his story.

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