Comrade Maradona: The anti-establishment football God with leftist leanings

Diego was a flawed genius who fought for democracy and social justice and saw a second father in Cuba's Fidel Castro

Diego Maradona held the Hand of God four years later, on the day his friend and world leader Fidel Castro died (November 25, 2016). Right from his birth in 1960 to Argentina's World Cup triumph in 1986 and his positive drug test at the 1994 final, to the day he died of a heart attack at home in the Buenos Aires, Maradona polarised emotions like few others. He lived a life marked by on-field glory, off-field scandals, and political activism. Maradona, who was a great fan of Cuban cigars, regarded Castro as his 'second father' and had been a strong