Argentina revelation

Lax drug testing protected Maradona

May 27, 2011
By ESPNsoccernet staff
Argentine FA chief Julio Grondona has admitted that doping controls were abandoned during the World Cup qualifying play-off against Australia in 1993 in a bid to protect Diego Maradona and other players.



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Grondona was responding to comments from former Agentina captain Maradona in a television interview on ...

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