Maradona scores twice against Cuban journalists

Maradona scores twice against Cuban journalists

Havana, June 7: Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona, in Havana for medical treatment for his cocaine addiction, scored twice as he captained a team of friends to a 6-0 thrashing of a foreign press side at Cuba's main football stadium.

Both his goals came from long-range shots, bringing roars of applause from a handful of Cuban onlookers.

Maradona's play, alonside a group of friends from Argentina, was further evidence of his recovery, after he had played 44 minutes in a recent testimonial game for German star Lothar Matthaeus in Munich.

Maradona was set to travel to Mexico on Wednesday for two days to watch his beloved former Argentine club, Boca Juniors, play a Mexican side in Latin America's Libertadores Cup.

But the former Argentine captain is likely to spend much of the rest of the year in Cuba, where the medical treatment is going well and he has found a peaceful lifestyle he says is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

His doctors have warned, however, that the fight agains this addiction is a long-term one, and while abstinent from drugs since he arrived in Cuba, there was always a risk he could regress.