Humour: 7 football players who would make great super villains

4. Maradona as Tony Montana

An iconic moment from ‘Scarface’ – Tony Montana sitting in front of mounds of cocaine

Diego Maradona of Argentina requires very little introduction, his ‘hand of God’ goal even less. The entire arc of his career is very well documented, including his drug problems. Football players have been caught using performance enhancers before and it’s surely going to happen again.

But no one has ever had a publicised drug problem like Maradona – he barely tried to hide it. He is absolutely famous for his addiction to cocaine – he tested positive for the stuff when he was playing for Napoli.

Considering his background, Maradona is the perfect fit for one villain – Tony Montana from Scarface. Only Maradona could feel at home, sitting at a desk with a mound of cocaine in front of him. Only he would look good sitting there in his flashy, mobster clothes, a wrist watch on either hand waiting to shove his face into the pile of snow in front of him.

Neither is Maradona averse to shooting people. Remember when he shot at journalists with an air rifle in 1994 and was handed a suspended jail sentence for it?

Diego Maradona was caught playing a professional game under the influence of cocaine and other banned substances thrice