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The Underworld Podcast: Cocaine, Camorra, Call Girls: Maradona’s Downfall

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In 1987, Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona was on top of the world. He’d just handed his nation a World Cup, and his club side Napoli its first league title in over 60 years.

But Maradona’s hard-partying lifestyle and underworld friends would soon take their toll – and before long, the world’s greatest sportsman was in a tangled web of vice, drugs and match-fixing that would haunt him until his dying days.

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June 24, 2025