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Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona attends a soccer match in Ezeiza, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, May 8, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo) |
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) — Argentine soccer star of the 1980s and 1990s Diego Maradona will work as an honorary adviser to soccer giant Boca Juniors, the club’s new president Pedro Pompillo told domestic radio on Monday.
“He will work with both professional and amateur soccer,” Pompillo said. “It will be an honored post, meaning he has told me he does not want to change money for this work,” he added.
Maradona, 47, “will be a presidential soccer adviser and will be consulted regularly. He has other commitments and we cannot demand that he visits the club daily. But it is a great pleasure for me and I am very grateful to him,” said the president.
Maradona was a leading goal scorer in the 1986 World Cup won by Argentina in Mexico and an enthusiastic supporter of Boca, the team for which he played his last professional football around 10 years ago.