Diego denies TAM charges

Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona, who was detained at Rio de Janeiro airport on Thursday for several hours, arrived at Buenos Aires on Thursday afternoon. Airlines TAM in a statement said the boarding gate was closed when Maradona and four companions arrived. They damaged a door in the passageway to the plane and forced open a second door before police arrived.

“I didn’t destroy anything. If we had broken something, we wouldn’t be here,” Maradona said during a press conference, adding the guard apparently thought we had guns. “I told him ‘Go ahead and shoot if you want to be famous’.”