Just curious - zidane's foul triggers pro and con everywhere. but what do you think about maradona did drugs

Question

but seem always got away and treated like a hero/god? i think it's a more serious matter. moreover zidane seems like he's sorry and disappointed but not the same with maradona.

Answer 1

It is possible to appreciate a persons strengths and overlook weaknesses. We do it all the time or else few of us would have any friends because we all have our weaknesses. Yes, Maradona had a drug problem but he was an exceptional player and on the pitch he was a hero. I don't know if Maradona ever regretted or apologized for his drug use but soccer fans tend to overlook or ignore what a player does as long as it doesn't effect his game. Sort of like our Dennis Rodman. He is a bad boy but boy can that man play basketball.

Answer 2

Maradona most certainly never got away with it!
He was fined, banned and admitted to rehab.
Drugs is an illness, an addiction to be pitied not vilified or punished to forget any good you have done, what ever he did off the field he was a genius on it!
Similar with The Great Zizou, one silly incident cannot take away years of talent and skill he has given to the beauitiful game.
I am a soccer fan not a judge or prosecutor.

Answer 3

Maradona's drug use in his private life (never for performance purposes, mind you) was never an issue in Italy, until he committed the unpardonable sin of ingratitude. During the 1990 World Cup in Italy, Maradona's Argentina faced off home team Italy in the semi-final. There was talk in soccer circles what Maradona would do -- play low-key and allow his host country (he was playing for Naples at the time), or bless the Argentine shirt and play all out for Argentina. Well, Maradona took the latter route, and Argentina started beating Italy, and held on until Penalty shootouts after Italy tied it up. Italy's elimination by Maradona and Argentina spoiled many bets and gamblers, especially among Mafiosos. A year after, the smear campaign against him began, his career at Naples was ruined, the media made his private life a circus, and he was literally forced to leave Italy. They had their pay back against him.

Wherever he went, he was never left in peace, and actually made him consume more of it in his private life. What led him to go into rehab was his need and desire (plus Argentinas's need as well) to play on the Seleccion. He went to Canada and cleaned up and helped a faltering Argentina on the verge of elimination, and led them to a World Cup berth after beating Australia in the Wild Card match. Argentina was a wholly different team with Maradiona, and that showed itself magestically in the first two games in the USA World Cup in 1994. Damn, were they awsome!

This Argentina team was so impressive, that the desperate Brazilians (another mafioso country, the worst after Italy) who hadn't won a championship since 1970, and had fallen short the last 5 World Cups, saw them as a real threat. So what do you do -- divide and conquer. Maradona was singled out, and accused on trumped up charges of substance abuse (a bogus drug, really. Not a performance enhancer at all), and the smear campaign began again (I am positive the Brazilians had something to do with this, I mean the President of FIFA was BRAZILIAN !). He was expelled in disgrace and the Argentina players protested the tournament, many playing just to to play the match. They lost their last two games, Bulgaria (2-0), and Romania (3-2), teams they could have easily beaten. Instead of Italy or Bulgaria in the semi-finals (both inferior to that Maradona led team) it would have been Argentina, who as everyone knew, would have faced off against Brazil in the final, and possibly spoiling their quest for their first title in 20 years.

This is the story. Many soccer players have abused substances besides Maradona. The most famous forward of Brazil's Golden Era along with Pele was Garrincha, and he was an alcoholic who was always drinking Brazilian moonshine and a party animal -- the people's player. Not only him. There are others. Garrincha never got the smear campaigh, since his private life was his private life, and never did anything to offend the powers that be or running the show. Maradona did, and that is the difference between the two, and with others today.

Answer 4

I can't believe the world celebrates a cheating, crackhead, tax evader. I don't think the last chapter has been written on Zizou.

Answer 5

THEY ARE 2 MAGNIFIQE PLAYERS!!!! The rest don't count!!!

Answer 6

maradonna is so yesterday..lol