Maradona will be back with Napoli

Buenos Aires, January 1: Argentinaâ€™s World Cup legend Diego Maradona could be rejoining his former team Napoli, his age...

Buenos Aires, January 1: Argentinaâ€™s World Cup legend Diego Maradona could be rejoining his former team Napoli, his agent Guillermo Coppola has told the Telam Agency. The project would unite the former Argentine skipper with the southern Italian club where he shone as a player between 1984 and 1992.

â€œDiego wants to do it and I am optimistic,â€ said Coppola, though the post Maradona would hold was not immediately revealed. â€œWe presented a plan and they (the directors of the Napoli) are studying it.

Club official Luca Ferlaino, also president of Naples Marketing, said they were keen to have Maradona under contract.

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During his eight years at Napoli, Diego Maradona won two league championships (1986-87 and 1989-90), an Italian Cup (1986-87), a Uefa Cup (1988-89) and an Italian Super Cup (1989-90).

He did not play in his final season under contract at Napoli as he was serving a 15-month ban for failing a drugs tests at the 1990 World Cup. This year Maradona, who starred in Argentinaâ€™s 1986 World Cup win, has been in the news in a battle with Pele for FIFAâ€™s player of the century award as well as a fight against drug-induced heart problems in January.

Campbell to stay at Tottenham
LONDON: England defender Sol Campbell has promised he will stay with troubled premier league club Tottenham Hotpsur after his contract expires at the end of the season.

â€œI want to play for Tottenham, thatâ€™s it really,â€ the Tottenham captain said on Sunday. â€œI am going nowhere. Iâ€™ve been here for so long and for me to do well at this club means everything. When you look at Tottenham, the talent is unbelievable, the stadiumâ€™s lovely and all the ingredients are there.â€

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Campbell, 26, had been linked with league champions Manchester United and Spainâ€™s Valencia, last seasonâ€™s beaten European Cup finalists. Tottenham, who host Newcastle United on Tuesday, lost 3-0 to Ipswich on Saturday, their ninth defeat in 11 away games this season.

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