Maradona's son demands the citizenship of his father

The Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires said that Diego Junior, son of late Argentine soccer star Diego Armando Maradona, will obtain Argentine citizenship on March 25.

Sports journalist, football coach and father of two children, Diego Armando Maradona Senagra, 34, expressed his desire to acquire his father's citizenship.

In Argentina, law provides that children of an Argentine citizen born abroad can choose to acquire citizenship.

Diego Maradona played most of his football career in Europe, with Barcelona of Spain, but especially in Italy for eight years from 1984 to 1992 with Napoli, where the stadium now bears its name.

"It has always been clear to me that I am 50% Napoli and 50% Argentine," Diego Junior said in a press release issued by the Argentine Foreign Ministry. I know, from heaven, that my father will also be very proud. "

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