In April 2019, 2019 the athletics Andy Mitten was tasked by 442 magazine to fly unannounced to the heart of Sinalloa Mexico

home to the most powerful drug cartel on the planet and track down the coach of Mexican second division side

Dorados, one Diego Marad until Friday, December the 4th.

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forward slash Ornstein and Chapman to subscribe. Right then Andy, first things first, what was Diego Maradonna doing in Kulekan, a city

homes for the most powerful drug trafficking organisation on the planet.

Diego Maradona was the coach of the city's football team Dorados during the Mexican second division.

He'd been brought in to try and get them promotion to the top flight.

It's a very difficult division to get out of.

You need to go through a series of 42 different playoff games.

Also it seemed.

And it's also the club where Joseph Guadiolra had played about 12 games but it's not a

football city it's a city which is better known for Narcos and from a sporting perspective

baseball is the far biggest sport there. I didn't even know that Maradonna was in

Mexico when I was asked to go there in March 2019.

It was quite the undertaking for you to get there I understand?

Yeah it was because I'm used to interviewing footballers all the time and traveling around Europe and even around the world to do so and I've been to South America a lot.

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