Football: Maradona repeats doping allegations
The legend has repeated doping allegations against Argentine Football Federation President Julio Grondona.
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Argentine legend Diego Maradona repeated doping allegations against Argentine Football Federation President Julio Grondona, insisting the latter gave the green light for players to take a banned substance ahead of a 1994 World Cup playoff with Australia. Grondona said earlier this week that doping controls were deliberately overlooked so as to prevent Maradona, who served a 15-month suspension in 1991 for taking cocaine, fouling foul of a test. Maradona has several times hit out at Grondona, head of the Argentine federation since 1979, since the former was forced out as national coach following last summer’s World Cup finals, dubbing him ‘old’ and ‘corrupt’.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 29th, 2011.
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