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Maradona to work for Boca, says club president
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-04-24 09:13

Retired soccer player Diego Maradona is about to work with Boca Juniors, announced Saturday the boss of the Argentine soccer club.


Diego Maradona, seen here in February 2005, is in 'perfect health' after undergoing gastric bypass surgery in order to help him reduce weight, one of his surgeons said.[AFP]

"Next week there will be a meeting of the board of directors to discuss this issue," Mauricio Macri, President of Boca, told Argentine Radio Mitre station as he was taking part in the installation of pope Benedict XVI in Italy.

The boss declined to reveal what position Maradona will take.

Maradona, 44, who retired from soccer in 1996 and has been struggling to control obesity and drug-addiction since then, said he would never take a job as a club's offcial and he wishes to share his experience with players.

The Boca president, however, backed the coach, Jorge Benitez, who was in conflict with striker Guillermo Barros Schelotto, and assured the player "wants to leave" the club.

"The thing is that there is a player (Barros Schelotto) who for seven years has been a key of the team, and now there is an alternative (Rodrigo Palacio) for his position according to the coach," he pointed out.

Thus Macri backed Benitez as saying "his responsibility is to form the best team possible" and "this has to be clear from Guillermo all the way to the youngest player of minor leagues; whoever doesn't understand this is wrong and loses."



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