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Diego Maradona passed away on Wednesday at the age of When Maradona made that call, he was an isolated figure, worn down from the constant attention of his fame, unable to go anywhere in Naples, hounded by the media, playing for a club that he wanted to escape and hopelessly addicted to cocaine. But midway through this discreet, a. Unbeknownst to Maradona, the phone call was tapped by authorities, and later used as evidence to bring charges against the midfield dynamo for cocaine possession and distribution the latter because he offered some powder to the prostitutes.

In April of the same year, a drug test found traces of cocaine in his blood, and he was given an unprecedented month ban from playing soccer. He then fled Italy for his native Argentina and was promptly arrested for cocaine possession, with police leading a distraught Maradona away in tears. It was a shocking downfall of the most gifted player of his generation; the equal of modern-day greats such as Cristiano Ronaldo or fellow Argentine Lionel Messi.

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But unlike them, Maradona was also a player who had a romantic, rags-to-riches backstory that was as alluring as his on-field talents. One of eight children, he was born in to a dirt-poor family living in the slums of Buenos Aires. As rumors of his prodigious talent grew, a film crew famously captured footage of the boy doing tricks, and explaining his ambition was to win the World Cup for Argentina.

As a year-old, Maradona signed for the local Argentina Juniors team, and immediately became financially responsible for his entire family. He rapidly rose through the ranks before signing to a rival team, Boca Juniors, in before FC Barcelona swept him up the next year.