Maradona returned to Boca Juniors

Finally reached the last stage of Diego Armando Maradona as a player, must overcome a penalty of 15 months by the Positive Doping in the 1994 World Cup , added to a long inactivity football, which dwindled with various activities related to soccer such as the creation of the Union Football World Cup, finally discarded.

After training on their own, and getting ready to live the last years of football, made his official debut back at Boca Juniors on September 30, 1995, returning to the club of the bank after 14 years under the international friendly against the Korean team with a victory by 2 to 1.

In the 1995 Apertura xeneize whole did not make the expected performance, especially for the poor performance of a duo in Italia 90 had worked almost perfectly, because this team had Claudio Paul Caniggia, the Argentine team mate.

A change of direction in the leadership, now with Mauricio Macri, sought to bring a coach of experience, though the name chosen was controversial in Maradona: Carlos Salvador Bilardo, who had fought hard in Sevilla .

Despite the rough edges smoothed and finally have supported its role as coach, began the shorts with the leadership, which sought to reduce some salaries and awards of stock, causing a general malaise in the team.

Without prejudice to this, good game placed Boca Juniors as a candidate to win the Clausura 1996, until a surprise defeat to Racing Club cut off all chance of reaching the much coveted championship in that encounter claiming a penalty shot.

On August 11, 1996, against Estudiantes de La Plata and the penultimate round of the tournament, was the last appearance of Diego Maradona for about 11 months, who left the game momentarily to go into Switzerland for drug addiction , leaving treatment abruptly after his doctor give a press conference publicizing the details of treatment.

Finally, on April 21, 1997 football signed his last contract, returning back to Boca Juniors as a trainer and taking the ex-athlete Ben Johnson , who helped him regain lost physical inactivity and getting ready to debut, just to Newell's Old Boys , on July 9.

On August 24, again the specter of doping, giving a positive cocaine metabolites and generating controversy: Maradona had filed a complaint a month earlier for a few phone calls where he had been threatened adulterate including drug analysis.

With this complaint, was asked to perform a DNA test to the sample, which could not be done by the small amount of genetic material, and therefore decided not to apply any suspension but perform a drugs test 24 hours after each game.

An injury to the Colo-Colo for the 1997 Super Cup finally keep him away until he played his last match as a professional, the October 25, 1997, in a move that many had regarded as a legacy or an inheritance, being supplanted by Juan Román Riquelme.

Thus ended the legend Diego Armando Maradona on the playing fields, but today we can enjoy some sporadic appearances at benefit events, and we miss those moments when we saw him play, making move, vibrate and fanatics with his game .

Diego Armando Maradona himself in today, is serving 50 years of age .