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‘The best circus to ever hit this country’: Maradona’s two weeks in Sydney – Sydney Morning Herald
In October 1993, Diego Maradona turned Sydney into the centre of the sporting universe, dragging his own country out of a depression spiral at the Socceroos’ expense….
An overweight Maradona sat in the stands that day. He had had not played international football since the 1990 World Cup final.
His career at Italian club Napoli had ended in disgrace after a 15-month ban for testing positive to cocaine and a series of investigations into his tax evasion and links to organised crime. In the years since, he’d only played one season at Sevilla and a handful of games at Newell’s Old Boys.
Diego Maradona is escorted off Wentworth Park after training with the Argentinian…
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