Legendary footballer, Diego Maradona, slapped a journalist on Saturday while leaving a theatre along with mother of his child, Veronica Ojeda, and their son Diego Fernando, in his homeland.
According to the media reports, a journalist winked at his ex-partner Ojeda, after which the 53-year old called the man an “idiot” before slapping him in the face.
The family had been celebrating Children’s Day at an event in Buenos Aires. The incident made headlines in the capital after the slapping incident was captured on camera.
It’s not the first time Maradona grabbed the headlines for the wrong reasons. In the past he used his ‘other hand’ to score a goal, which helped his country to knock England out in the 1986 World Cup.
In 1994 he failed a drug test and was sent home from the World Cup in USA. Four years later he was given a suspended sentence for shooting journalists with an air rifle.
After the slapping incident, the journalists will try to maintain some distance from the former Argentine footballer.
