Soccer
From Staff and Wire Reports
In apparent defiance of his worldwide suspension for testing positive for cocaine after an Italian League soccer match last year, Diego Maradona played an exhibition at Buenos Aires to raise funds for charity.
FIFA, international soccer’s governing body, ruled that professionals who took part in the exhibition would risk sanctions, but didn’t specify what those might be.
Maradona called the FIFA authorities who tried to enforce his suspension “inhuman robots” and said that “nobody in Argentina will cry for (FIFA president) Joao Havelange when he dies.”
