Doping controversies cast shadow over Argentine successes
(China Daily/Agencies)
Updated: 2005-10-13 06:12

Maradona bans

All these cases, following soccer great Diego Maradona's two infamous positive doping tests in the 1990s, have put Argentine sport under a cloud.

Maradona was banned from soccer for 15 months in 1991 while playing for Napoli in Italy, and again with Argentina at the 1994 World Cup in the United States, when he declared after being kicked out of the tournament: "My legs have been cut off."