Killing Maradona: How cocaine, the Camorra, cartels and crime corrupted football's greatest talent...with TRE's Giles Brown

About this episode

The episode discusses how Maradona's genius in football was overshadowed by his struggles with crime and addiction.

Maradona was football's ultimate genius - a magician on the pitch whose talent rivalled only Pelé. But off the field, the boy from the barrios of Buenos Aires became entangled in a dark web of criminal influence and personal demons. Catch Giles live - 'Let's Talk' - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - from 10.00CET...on tre.radio

People in this episode

Host: Giles Brown

Topics covered

• football
• crime
• addiction
• sports history
• Maradona
• Camorra
• cocaine

Keywords

• Maradona
• football
• cocaine
• Camorra
• Pelé
• crime
• addiction
• sports

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Camorra, tre.radio

Places: Buenos Aires

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