FILES) In this file composition picture made with a picture of the (then) coach of the Argentine national football team, soccer legend Diego Maradona (L) taken during a press conference in Marseille, France, on February 10, 2009, and another of (now retired) footballer Juan Roman Riquelme taken before a friendly match against Croatia on March 1, 2006 in Basel, Switzerland. Argentine legendary footballers Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta and Juan Roman Riquelme got fully engaged in the electoral campaign of the popular club Boca Juniors, in a race with political implications that transcends the football world in their country. Boca holds elections on December 8, 2019. In 2009, veteran playmaker Riquelme refused to don the colours of Argentina while Maradona was coach.
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FILES) In this file composition picture made with a picture of the (then) coach of the Argentine national football team, soccer legend Diego Maradona (L) taken during a press conference in Marseille, France, on February 10, 2009, and another of (now retired) footballer Juan Roman Riquelme taken before a friendly match against Croatia on March 1, 2006 in Basel, Switzerland. Argentine legendary footballers Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta and Juan Roman Riquelme got fully engaged in the electoral campaign of the popular club Boca Juniors, in a race with political implications that transcends the football world in their country. Boca holds elections on December 8, 2019. In 2009, veteran playmaker Riquelme refused to don the colours of Argentina while Maradona was coach.
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