7 reasons why Diego Maradona is the most controversial football legend

#4 Slapping a journo

Maradona’s psychotic behaviour doesn’t end in the last slide – or in this one, for that matter – as controversy and Maradona walk hand-in-hand. This video reveals another thing about him: that he is very sensitive about his girlfriends.

When a journalist did something as trivial as winking at his girlfriend, Maradona walked up to him to ask him what was wrong and then seemingly slapped him for his supposed audacity.

This is just another instance of a grown man – who is supposedly a revered figure in one of the greatest sports of all time – behaving like a street kid.