Maradona gets Pakistani invite
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PAKISTAN’S football chiefs yesterday invited Diego Maradona to visit the country after the Argentina legend disparagingly compared his own association to the South Asian nation’s.
The 53-year-old accused the Argentine Football Association of “understanding as much about football as Pakistan does”.
Naveed Haider, a senior official of the Pakistan Football Federation, welcomed the fact Maradona was talking about his country and urged him to visit to lift the game’s profile. “I would love Maradona to come to Pakistan and help Pakistan,” Haider said, noting that the Argentine was already a sports ambassador for Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
He acknowledged that Pakistan, ranked a lowly 158th in the world, had a long way to go but said it had made great strides in recent times.
Maradona is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever footballers and helped Argentina win the 1986 World Cup.
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