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June 21, 1994.
Diego Maradona scored one of the most spectacular goals of the World Cup against Greece.
Eight days later he was gone, expelled from the tournament in disgrace.
The world saw an inevitable doping case.
But in the background something much bigger was going on. Something involving the highest FIFA ranks.
Did João Havelange and Sepp Blatter build him up specifically to tear him down?
This is the full story.
Maradona had arrived in the United States looking like a different man. Thirty-three years old, fifteen kilograms lighter than the bloated figure who had limped out of Italy four years earlier.
Daniel Cerrini, an Argentine bodybuilder, had spent a year putting him through brutal training, strict diets, and a regimen his own camp euphemistically called "energy-boosting." His long-time trainer Fernando Signorini watched on, increasingly uneasy.
Months earlier it had nearly fallen apart entirely. In February 1994, struggling under the weight of public expectation, Maradona briefly withdrew from the squad.
When journalists camped outside his house for two days demanding answers, he came out and opened fire on them with an air rifle.
He came back anyway. Nobody fully knew how he'd transformed himself so completely, so fast.
Foxborough, Massachusetts. Group D. Argentina vs Greece. Already 2-0 up. Six one-touch passes circling the edge of the Greek box before the ball found Maradona's left foot.
One touch to send it screaming into the top corner.
Then the celebration. He sprinted to the touchline, eyes bulging, mouth wide open, screaming directly into a television camera before lunging his head into the lens. No words. Just noise and fury and disbelief at his own resurrection. It became one of football's most iconic images.
Argentina won 4-0. Four days later they beat Nigeria 2-1 in Boston, Maradona excellent again. It would be his 91st and final cap for his country.
Five days after that game, the news broke. Two separate urine samples, both positive.
On June 29, FIFA's Sepp Blatter held a press conference.
"Both analyses of the urine sample have proved positive. The player Diego Maradona of the Argentinian national team has therefore violated the conditions of the doping control regulations."
Five different variants of ephedrine were found in his system. Whatever Maradona had taken, it was a cocktail, not an accident.
He was expelled. Sent home in disgrace.
That night, on Argentine television, he gave his side of it.
"I don't know, maybe we were careless, but I swear I did not drug myself to play. With my abilities, I don't need to drug myself."
"They've cut my legs off. This is a real dirty business. I'd like to believe in Havelange and Blatter but after this... well, I don't want to say anything."
He never said it outright, but Joao Havelange, FIFA's president, and Sepp Blatter, its general secretary, the two most powerful men in world football, were now part of the story he was telling the world.
For years afterward, persistent rumours circulated that FIFA had quietly approached him before the tournament specifically because organisers feared the first World Cup ever held on American soil lacked a single transcendent name capable of capturing US media attention.
The same rumours claimed an unwritten understanding had been reached: get yourself fit, and the doping procedures would look the other way.
If any version of that arrangement ever existed, FIFA effectively created the very situation that destroyed him, encouraging a recovering addict with a documented drug history back into elite competition under a wink-and-nod arrangement, then enforcing the rules in full once a positive test became impossible to hide.
Back in Argentina, the blame splintered in every direction at once. Federation president Julio Grondona claimed the ephedrine had come from an over-the-counter nasal spray, mistakenly administered by Maradona's own doctor.
Maradona himself pointed to Rip Fuel, an energy drink, the Argentine version contained no ephedrine, he said, but when his supply ran out in America, the local formula did. FIFA's doctor dismissed both stories. Five variants. One cocktail. No single innocent explanation.
The reaction outside Argentina was just as extraordinary.
In Dhaka, Bangladesh, more than 20,000 people took to the streets in protest.
Both Maradona and Cerrini were banned from football for fifteen months and fined 20,000 Swiss francs.
Argentina went home from USA 94 without him. He never wore the captain's armband for his country again.
The goal against Greece lasted a few seconds. The scream into the camera lasted a few more. The fall, and the thirty years of arguing about who was really to blame, never really ended at all. 🇦🇷
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Bruno Fernandes season awards checklist 👀
- Writers Association Footballer of the Year ✅
- FIFA XI ⏳
- Ballon d’Or XI ⏳
- PL Player of the Year ⏳
- BBC Player of the Year ⏳
- PL Playmaker of the Year ⏳
- PL Fans’ Player of the Year ⏳
- Sky Sports Player of the Year ⏳
- PFA Players’ Player of the Year ⏳
- Record Assist Breaker of the Year ⏳
- Manchester United Player of the Year ⏳