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‘We don’t want Maradona’: Soccer legend gets a mixed welcome in Mexico’s Sinaloa

‘We don’t want Maradona’: Soccer legend gets a mixed welcome in Mexico’s Sinaloa

Diego Maradona celebrates a goal with player Facu Juarez during a match against Cafetaleros in Culiacan, Mexico, on Monday that was Maradona’s first game as coach of second-division Dorados. (Eduardo Verdugo/AP) CULIACAN, Mexico — The president-elect of Mexico, a man capable of convening massive crowds, passed through this coastal city on Monday morning and raised little more than a ripple.The same afternoon, one of the living legends of major league baseball, Fernando Valenzuela, was left mostly in peace as he ate lunch with other retired ballplayers in the restaurant of the . . .

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