Maradona revisited: on his drugs ban, Berlusconi and ‘the suffocating love of Naples’
20-Nov-2022 10:00:24 | The Guardian
In a 1992 interview reproduced in a new book, the late Argentina maestro discusses missing out on a dream move to Juventus
In March 1991, after a game Napoli had played against Bari, Diego Maradona failed a drug test. The Italian football authorities banned him for 15 months. He fled to Buenos Aires, where the Argentinian law authorities subjected him to continual harassment and surveillance, including a short spell in jail. Maradona called those 15 months “among the most terrible of my whole life”.
In July 1992, with the ban over, Maradona was determined to “detach [himself] from Napoli”. He joined Sevilla, managed by Carlos Bilardo, who was in charge of Argentina for the 1986 and 1990 World Cups.
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