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May 22, 2010
Posted by Sebastian Garcia on 05/22/2010

As Diego Armando MARADONA announced his Argentina World Cup squad, half of the nation were in disbelief or just plain furious. The other half? They just couldn't help laughing.

Deep inside, though, everybody kind of expected a list coming from Diego's mind to be controversial.

There is a TV commercial (in Spanish) doing the rounds in Argentina in which MARADONA says:

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Sebastian Garcia was born just a few blocks from the place where a certain Diego Armando Maradona first kicked a football. Regretfully, Sebastian had to make do with punching some keys and writing about football. He worked for Clarin newspaper and ESPN in Buenos Aires before taking part in Press Operations in several major sporting events such as the Beijing Olympics, when Argentina won gold at the Birds Nest.

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