• Maradona lasts eight games at struggling Argentinian side• Club
elections cost Maradona ally his job as presidentDiego Maradona has left his latest club after three months in charge. The former
Argentina forward and
World Cup winner, who became the manager of Gimnasia in September, said he would continue only if the club’s president, Gabriel Pellegrino, stayed on following club elections but he withdrew when an electoral pact fell apart.
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