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Title:Football Stories: Maradona - Kicking The Habit
Date:8th August 2000
Summary:Possibly the greatest footballer of all time, certainly of his generation, and an icon to millions of worshipping fans. Yet flawed, self obsessed and prone to addictions, DIEGO MARADONA, the man who almost single handedly won the world cup for Argentina in 1986, was a god, venerated by a nation that feeds off its icons, as Eva Peron also discovered. But, after rising so high, how did he fall so low? And is he now a figure of national disgrace?