Luigi giuliano maradona biography
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After the fall: The World Cup dream is over for Diego Maradona, but there may be worse to come - a little matter of pounds ,worth of smuggled cocaine, and the Naples mafia. Paul Greengrass and Toby Follett report
What is surprising about the demise of Diego Maradona in this year's World Cup is not the discovery that he was caught using drugs and banned from the tournament, or that his once-glorious side was subsequently knocked out of the championship in a defeat by Romania on Sunday. The astonishing thing is that given the seriousness of the charges and convictions related to his drug habit in Italy, Maradona got to play in the World Cup in the first place and that the consistent attempts to brush this history under the carpet were successful for so long.
Apart from convictions for possession and supply in Italy, the most serious aspect of Maradona's involvement with drugs may be shown in a case going through the Rome courts in which he faces a charge of smuggling pounds ,worth o
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Diego Maradona: The God of Naples
By Carlo Garganese
Some couples are just meant to be together. None more so than Diego Armando Maradona and SSC Napoli. This was a relationship that had it all. Every possible emotion and feeling. There was unbridled joy and devotion. There was trust and hope. There were so many blissful highs yet also some distressing lows. But, above all else, there was unconditional love that &#x; 35 years on from their first date together &#x; has never wavered.
From day one, Diego immediately felt at home in Naples. He had grown up in extreme poverty in hus Fiorito, an overpopulated shantytown in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. As Asif Kapadia&#x;s much-anticipated spelfilm on Maradona &#x; June 14 in the UK and July 25 in Australia &#x; shows in graphic detail, there was no clean water, no paved roads and the impoverished residents had to labour around the clock just to survive. Maradona&#x;s bricklayer father Don Diego went to work at 4am each day and, in
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Erminia Giuliano
Erminia Giuliano (Italian pronunciation:[erˈmiːnjadʒuˈljaːno]; born December 31, ) is a former member of the Giuliano clan of the Camorra, based in the district of Forcella, Naples. Her nickname was Celeste ("Sky-blue") on account of her bright, blue eyes.[1][2]
Taking over the Giuliano clan
[edit]She took over the Giuliano clan crime business after the arrest of her brother Luigi Giuliano in early , who was the last of the five male family members to be arrested. Luigi would eventually become a pentito in September and testify against various Camorra figures, including members of his own clan.[3] She became the boss because the only direct male heir to the family business still unimprisoned, Giuliano's nephew Pio Vittorio Giuliano, was deemed inept.[4]
She was ranked as one of Italy's 30 most dangerous criminals, and eventually arrested on December 23, , after being a fugitive for over 10 months.[3