Sky Sports reports that the victim allegedly winked at Veronica Ojeda, the ex-wife of the former international star at a theatre where he took his son, Diego Fernando, to see a children’s play on Argentina’s Day of the Child.
The incident which was caught on camera showed the 53-year-old Maradona hitting the journalist. Read More after the cut...
Maradona, who is a former Barcelona and Napoli player won the World Cup as a player in 1986, after which he became his country’s coach from 2008 to 2010.
However, the ex-international who is not a stranger to confronting journalists was given a suspended jail sentence of two years and 10 months after shooting at journalists outside his residence with an air rifle. It was reported that about four people sustained injuries in the incident.
