Diego Maradona the former Argentinan captain.And now the coach of Argentina has been banned for two months and also fined a sum of 24,000 dollars as well.
Maradona flew down to Zurich F.I.F.A. headquarers, to face their disciplanery comitee had decided the punishment over two month ban so he can not take part in any kind of football matters for these two months. He came down from Spain where Argentina had plaayed and lost a freindly football match with Spain.
The punishment was for Maradona who used foul words in a global broadcast after a world cup qualifying match with Uruguay played on october 14 in Montevideo. He not only burst out on the touchline, he also had another outburst after the match, it was a post match media confrence.Argentina had just scraped through to the world cup in South Africa after beating Uruguay 1-0.
Even though Maradona was a great player in his time, his life off he field had problems.He was cought taking cocaine during his club days in Napoli Italy. In the 1994 world cup in the U.S.A he was kicked out of the world cup for doping, he had taken a banned drug ephederine.
He was heavily criticised over the heavy defeats by Bolivia,Brazil,Ecuador and Paraguay. And they made it in the 18th game only.
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