New task for the “best football player of all times”: Diego Maradona is a coach in the Mexican second division Sinaloa. His goal is ascension. In the environment of the club of bloody raging power struggle of the drug cartels.
At the world Championships in Russia, he fell as a noble Fan of Argentina in a way that made his health condition to fear. Now Diego Maradona is back on the trainer stage, albeit on a rather small. An oversized portrait of “D10s”, the Holy ones of the national team of Argentina hangs in Mexico’s second-Dorados de Sinaloa Liga club already at the stadium entrance, the new hope can start his service.
“The goal is not in the first League to rise, but without a victim,” said Maradona in an Interview with sports channel ESPN on his arrival in Culiacan, the capital of the state of Sinaloa. And his new club tweeted already euphoric: “The chief has arrived.”
In the hands of the cartels
In the process, Sinaloa is located in the North-West of Mexico, internationally, as yet, not because of football of excellence, but mainly because of the infamous drug cartel known that the dreaded drug Lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman led up to its delivery in 2017 in the United States. “We want about Culiacan and Sinaloa else is spoken,” said Jose Antonio Nunez, President of Dorados. The Association wants to make the signing of Maradona’s contribution for this purpose.
Drug Lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was delivered in 2017 to the USA
An understandable desire, however, Maradona, who himself has a drug career, the same with the cartel in the context is: “The Sinola cartel is love Maradona, you are real patriots and want to make your government popular,” said Mexican security expert Alejandro Hope. Maradona was banned in 1991 due to cocaine abuse for the first time, FIFA 2000 and 2004, he had to are delivers because of heart problems to the hospital. Cocaine abuse was the reason.
Good Memories
Maradona returns to the country in which he experienced in 1986, the peak of his career. In Mexico, he led Argentina to the final against Germany (3:2), and the world title. He was the best player of the tournament and the irregular goal scored in the quarter-finals against England. The Situation is still referred to today as the “Hand of God”.
Little man: Diego Maradona after winning the 1986 world Cup in Mexico
The 57-Year-old is said to have been committed in Sinaloa for eleven months and with a total of 1.6 million dollars will be paid, according to the sport newspaper “Record”. His Job as honorary President of Dinamo Brest in Belarus to keep Maradona as the club announced, and the Argentine confirmed. Maradona was in charge of the 2010 world Cup in South Africa as Coach of the Argentine national team. In the quarter-final was against Germany. At the end of April of this year, he had been as a coach of the second League club Fujairah SC, United Arab Emirates on leave. Now he will bring Sinaloa successes.
In the footsteps of Guardiola’s
The obligation Maradona’s is not the first attempt of Dorados, high play. Two Times the club managed temporarily in the highest League, in 2006, the former Bayern coach Pep Guardiola at the end of his playing career. As far as the Sport in Sinaloa can displace the violence of the drug cartels are actually from the headlines, however, is questionable. The Sinaloa cartel has a bloody fight with rivals from the cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion. In the first half of 2018, the authorities have been murdered in Sinaloa, according to the security 976 people. A year earlier, in the same period, even 220 more victims.
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