Diego Maradona | One year after his death, scandals and accusations continue – International Football – Sports

It is one year after the death of Diego Armando Maradona and the world continues to struggle to understand his figure.

The popular feeling of soccer who assures that he was one of the greatest in history and ‘whose work matters more than his life’ has come across a trend that has emphasized that the ’10’ could not have much to honor.

The excesses in every way and the strong accusations of serious crimes they have become the weight that weighs on his name.

A review of the demons that surrounded (and surround) the ‘D10S’, who for breathing between deeds and miseries has been classified as the ‘most human of all’.

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Accusations of gender violence and abuse

On the eternal roller coaster in which the life of Maradona, the strong denunciations and the serious denunciations of abuse against some close women represented the lowest point.

Mavys Álvarez and the worst Maradona in Cuba

Recent statements by Mavys alvarez, 41, who had a romantic relationship with the star when she was younger, highlighted the darker side of ’10’.

“Maradona covered my mouth so I wouldn’t scream, so I wouldn’t say anything and he abused me. My mother came to see me that day at the house where we were in Havana and Diego did not want to open the room door for her. My mom knocked and he didn’t open it. Raped me. That’s what happened ”, the woman described, in a talk with ‘Infobae’, about the alleged abuse that would have occurred between 2000 and 2001, when the former soccer player lived in Cuba to, in theory, undergo medical treatments.

During the time he was together with Maradona, according to Álvarez, attacks of all kinds were frequent.

At one time when he answered his cell phone, the Argentine would have reached threaten her with death.

“He starts insulting me, grabs me, throws me against the bed, slaps me and says: ‘Never in your life ever touch my cell phone again! Never!’ (…) he was violent on many occasions ”.

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During the time when Maradona was supposed to rebuild his life with prolonged periods of rehabilitation, Álvarez also fell prey to the intensity of his drug problem.

“He was putting me in his world of addiction. I was not interested in drugs, I did not smoke, I did not do drugs, I did not drink. Little by little he introduced me to alcohol. Then he insisted that I consume “assured the woman.

In that same passage through Cuba, dozens of sensationalist media reported several photographs with high sexual content of Maradona with apparent minors.

The headlines referencing episodes of wild parties and worrying drug use were not in short supply either.

This whole panorama closes with the fact that Álvarez’s explosive revelations were made known in the framework of his visit to Argentina to testify in a case opened for alleged human trafficking in which Maradona is one of those indicated.

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Other allegations of violence and abuse

In 2014, when Maradona was taking a break from his fledgling coaching career, a video in which he allegedly looked like he was assaulting Rocio Oliva, his last known partner, gave rise to a whole wave of outrage in Argentina.

For 2017, another warning sign for an attack on Oliva by the ’10’ led the Spanish civil authorities to break into the hotel where they were staying in Madrid.

In full free fall, Maradona was interrogated, but the woman did not file a complaint.

That same year, in the framework of the Confederations Cup in Russia, Yekaterina Nadólskaya, a local journalist, accused him of having tried to abuse of her when they were left alone in the hotel where the soccer star was staying.

“His assistant came, threw $ 500 at me and then they called the security guards. Three men led me out of the room. They didn’t even let me take my things “the woman told a digital medium in the Eurasian country at the time.

That event ended in oblivion after it was not known no complaint about.

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The never-ending match against drugsThe capture of a world champion

As he told in an interview in Spain, at the age of 24, when he had already won his country’s champion with Boca Juniors and participated in a World Cup, Maradona signed the beginning of his longest fight: drug use.

By then, during the paler months of his time at Barcelona, ​​he would have ingested the first dose of illegal substances.

Since then, it is said, he could never leave them.

On April 26, 1991, when he was already one of the most iconic Argentines in history, especially for his global championship in 86 and runner-up in 90, Maradona put his entire country on edge.

That day, late in the afternoon, Argentine Police officers came to the apartment where he was with two other men to arrest him for “Drug possession”.

At first it was said that he was captured with half a kilo of cocaine in his possession. Then the judge in the case denied that version. It was later claimed that the ’10’ and the other two men had thrown drug bags out the window, alarmed by the authorities. In the end, the only certainty was that Maradona was taken away while dozens of people crowded around him chanting his name.

A mere 24 hours later, the ‘idol’ was released.

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Repeated suspensions: the end of an era

By then, the alarms had already been triggered by the 15-month sanction unable to play football that the Italian Federation gave him at the end of March 1991 after finding cocaine in his blood.

Although Maradona said at first that everything was a ‘revenge’ against him, that was the beginning of an infinite avalanche.

In his third World Cup, that of the United States 1994, the ’10’ played his last game with the Argentine National Team, on June 25, in the 2-1 comeback against Nigeria.

A few hours later, the anti-doping test they carried out showed the presence of ephedrine, a prohibited substance.

“They hit me in the head when one has the possibility of resurgence… of a lot of things (…) I don’t want to dramatize, but believe me they cut off my legs,” he said then.

So far his third World Cup came.

Just over three years later, with the Boca Juniors shirt, another adverse result due to an improper substance was decreed the end of his career.

After knowing the plans for prolonged meetings to prevent that episode from being Maradona’s last on the courts, the person involved was responsible for closing the page.

“I can not anymore. So there is no point in continuing to play. I prefer to retire now and not pay with my old man’s life for the rumors of some unconscious who have a microphone “, made official in his retirement.

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How should Maradona be remembered?

In days gone by, the statements of the young Argentine singer Nicki nicole During an interview with ‘El País’, from Spain, they woke up the halo of controversy that weighs on the legacy of the Argentine ’10’.

“I was not born in the time of Diego Maradona and football does not interest me but I know a lot about his past, so I am not his fan. My father and grandfather are, but I also find it controversial that a person who has this type of behavior is followed. Would you listen to an artist who is an abuser? I do not”, said the 21-year-old artist in the prelude to ‘Los40 Music Awards’.

Nicole’s response, almost a year after the death of ’10’, reopened the debate on how a world football figure should be remembered who sinned excessively in what many would classify as ‘personal life’.

Without conclusive answers, what happened on June 22, 1986 perhaps it is the best tool provided by the person involved to analyze it.

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That day, in front of more than 100 thousand people in person and millions at a distance, Maradona eluded five English rivals by traveling more than half the pitch and certifying what history remembers as the ‘goal of the century’.

Then, in a disloyal act, he scored a goal with his hand.

“I did it with Maradona’s head but with the hand of God“He said then.

The summary of the day was accurate: in five minutes, it was ‘god’ and ‘demon’.

In 60 years of life, for better and for worse, he was human.

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