Diego Armando Maradona has been considered the best football player in history. This Wednesday he died a few days after turning 60.
If there is an adjective that can describe above all Diego Armando Maradona (60) is that of excessive. Together with Pelé he has been one of the best footballers in history and, personally, he has starred in some of the biggest scandals that are remembered. This Wednesday the Argentine star died a few days after turning 60.
From his mouth came the most terrible confessions. He started using drugs in 1982 when he was only 22 years old and almost a decade later he tested positive for cocaine for the first time in an anti-doping control in a Naples game, for which he was punished for fifteen months. To add insult to injury, there were rumors about his alleged links to the Camorra. Shortly after he was arrested in Buenos Aires in the Centennial Park for drug possession and in 1994 he again tested positive for another drug control in the United States.
At the turn of the millennium he entered an emergency clinic in Punta del Este (Uruguay) and continued his recovery in the Las Praderas clinic in Cuba, which helped him to strengthen his bond of friendship with the dictator Fidel Castro. He also did not waste time because it is said that he had three children of two different women between 2000 and 2005. At the same time, he began to gain weight to such an extent that after reaching 120 kilos he had to undergo gastric bypass.
Throughout his eventful life he starred in a host of scandals that LOC has summed up as follows: he accepted the proposal of the leader of the Cali cartel to eat with him in exchange for three million dollars; he attacked a group of journalists with a compressed air rifle for which he was sentenced to two years in prison and to compensate the injured; he went so far as to drop his pants and show his ass in front of the cameras while dancing with his partner; in the World Cup in Russia was so drunk that several people had to catch him so that he did not fall down the stands; he had several fights with the fans; She broke a glass over Miss Bora’s head while resting in Polynesia because the model had quarreled with her daughter Giannina, etc.
In sentimental matters he also had his more and his less. According to the statistics and as far as we know, because from now on surprises can arise, El Pelusa has eight children of six different women and three nationalities. At the age of 17, she married Claudia Villafañe, whom she married in 1989. The pair found stability after the birth of their two daughters, Dalma (34) and Giannina (31), who tasted the player’s greatest successes in Argentina Juniors, Boca, Barcelona and Naples; in 1992 a judge ruled that he was the father of Diego Jr. (34) the fruit of an extramarital relationship with Cristina Sinagra, forcing her to pay child support of $4,000 per month. Father and son were not reunited until 2016 in the Buenos Aires capital.
He is also the father of Jana (25), the result of another extramarital relationship with Valeria Sabalain that was not recognized until 2008; Dieguito Fernando (7) is the son of Verónica Ojeda, with whom he was romantically united for a decade and with two other Cuban women he was once again the father of the twins Joana and Lu (his mother is Adonay Fruto) and Javielito, whose mother’s identity is unknown at the moment. Word is there could be a room on the island.
To further complicate the family tree, it is also said that Santiago Lara (19) could be another offspring after a crazy night of love with the deceased model Natalia Garat. His last important wife was Rocío Oliva, who denounced him between 2014 and 2017 on several occasions for ill-treatment. In recent times names of other women such as Gisela Ramirez or Wanda Nara emerged. Everyone will have to share the vast fortune of the star of the ball that could amount to 100 million dollars (84 million euros). Diego already rests quietly with his mother, Doña Tota, who died nine years ago.