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Argentine soccer hero Diego Armando Maradona appears to have landed a big interview in his new career as TV showman: Cuban President Fidel Castro.
An employee at a Havana health retreat where Maradona lived for four years struggling against cocaine addiction said the football legend was back in town with a team of producers to interview the Cuban leader.
"Maradona arrived yesterday and looks like a young boy he is so thin," said the source at La Pradera health spa.
The man once hailed as the greatest player of his generation looks upon 79-year-old Castro a friend and a father figure who helped him kick drugs.
Maradona captained Argentina to World Cup victory in 1986, but cocaine abuse undermined his career and health.
In March he underwent an operation in Colombia to staple his stomach and reduce his ballooning weight.
A slimmer Maradona appeared on Argentine television on August 15 for the debut of his weekly show La Noche del 10 (The Night of the Number 10) - in reference to his shirt number on Argentina’s national team.
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His first guest was Brazil’s Pele, who is considered the greatest soccer player of all time and also wore the number 10 shirt.
Besides Castro, Maradona has said he plans to have soccer players Zidane and Ronaldo on his highly rated show as well as basketball great Michael Jordan and golfer Tiger Woods. (AAP)
Forum posts
28 October 2005, 03:49
Good on Diego, prime time viewing in The Americas except of course for ...?
Is it possible that Fidel’s baseball number was TEN ?
Was his cell in The Moncado prison number TEN ?
How about some Fidel antidotes of the TEN Presidents; five deceased, four living the fifth brain dead but on life support, would be interesting.
From Dwight to George the Lesser, Cuba has endured some peculiar, intrusive, obstreperous and obnoxious characters indeed.
With excellent Medical and Athletic programs will Diego put in a plug for help for Rush’s Oxycontin thing.?
Will CNN’s Lucia Newman add a TEN second caustic comment about this event.?
The "Other Americas" will definitely enjoy seeing these two unique superstars.
cheers, jt
17 November 2005, 16:37
Well look at it this way, The FED put the order out to kill JFK, and your friend did the deed or at lest help with killing an American Leader.
His payment from the Roilchilds was a safe life in return, thats the only reason he has lasted so long.
He had help the "real’ enemy which is not America but those that control it as with the rest of the world.
You now love him even more.
29 October 2005, 00:05
Dear Ms. Madonna,
You are not Maria Eva Duarte de Peron—get over it.
29 October 2005, 05:08
Are we both reading the same article, or have you had a relapse of some kind.?
Hope you get it together.
cheers, jt
29 October 2005, 08:53
Come on brainless. Soccer is not fag football only American fags like football and wear this stupid looking costumes. And only American soldiers think murdering unarmed muslims is heroic and brings freedom and democracy. You don’t know nothing about other cultures, stay at McDonalds and drink fake beer out of aluminium cans, while you are driving toward your million dollar cardboard house.