Maradona accepts paternity of 3 Cuban children.
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Argentina’s 1986 World Cup soccer winning
captain, Diego Maradona, has three children in Cuba and will travel to the
country to legally recognise them, his lawyer told Argentine media.
Maradona, 58, now a technical director at
Mexican club Dorados de Sinaloa, has five children from other relationships
with different women.
Lawyer Matias Morla said that Maradona would
travel to Cuba in the middle of the year and would do paternity tests.
“We are going to do the DNA tests. They are
from different women and Diego will recognise them when he returns to Cuba,”
Morla said.
He said he was in contact with the children.
He did not identify them.
The lawyer said that the claims were going
through the Cuban legal system, but that Maradona, one of the greatest soccer
players of all time, planned to give the children his surname in the near
future.
Maradona spent four years in Havana from 2000
to shake an addiction to drugs.
Cuba has strict penalties for drug possession
and is known in the region for deploying doctors and humanitarian aid to
countries in need.
During that time, he developed an unlikely
friendship with Fidel Castro, including getting a tattoo of the late Cuban
revolutionary’s face on his calf.
Castro would call on him early in the morning
to talk about politics or sports and encourage him to push toward a full
recovery.
However, with no press hounding him, Maradona
enjoyed Havana’s night-life and frequented its best clubs.
After his marriage broke up, he was
frequently seen with teenage Cuban women, sometimes one on each arm.
Morla has previously said that Maradona could
have more children from his time in Cuba.
“I’m afraid of Cuba; I hope it’s one (child)
… he was there a long time, he was single and behaved badly,” Morla said on a
television show in 2018.
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