r/BeAmazed • u/Present_Community_55 • 3h ago

Skill / Talent Maradona's training was on another level

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u/KangarooVegetable489 3h ago

Training, cheating, using, abusing...he was all next level

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u/SwampCastleGuards 1h ago

Drugging opponents with tranquilizers during the game

Those were the days

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u/frickinSocrates 50m ago

WHAT? Not a soccer fan, what the fuck, how even?

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u/uflju_luber 29m ago

Water bottles, common thing to share waterbottles with teammates and opponents. So if there’s an injury requirering medical attention the medical team of the injured player also always has water bottles in their equipment any player regardless of team can use (according to proper etiquette at least).

In this specific instance Argentinian physios offered Brazilian players bottles laced with tranquilizers during a game in 1990 wich Maradona admitted in an interview some years later and laughed about.

It’s known as the „holy water scandal“, Argentina won the game 1:0 after