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Maradona rejoining Boca Juniors
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-06-23 10:36 Diego Maradona is returning to
Boca Juniors as a vice president in charge of managing the first-division
roster.
Club president Mauricio Macri announced the move Wednesday. Maradona will
start on Aug. 1.
Maradona started his career at Boca, and the club hopes the soccer great can
help revive it from its worst season in years, which occurred during Boca's
centennial.
Macri said Maradona's role will include managing player transfers, the roster
in general, traveling with the team abroad, and providing a key support role to
the next coach, who has not yet been hired.
The team was still seeking a successor for Jorge Benitez, who resigned last
week when TV footage caught him apparently spitting at an opposing player during
Boca's ouster by Chivas of Mexico in the Copa Libertadores quarterfinals.
Maradona has said he favors Alfio Basile, the coach who led Argentina in the
last World Cup he played in 1994. But Macri said there are other candidates,
including former Argentina coach Marcelo Bielsa.
Macri said Boca's executive board will announce a decision in a few
days.
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