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Turbulent relationships: Diego Maradona's love affairs

2020-11-26T21:18:20.063Z


He met Claudia Villafañe at age 17 and married in 1989. Later, he had a formal relationship with Verónica Ojeda and Rocío Oliva.


11/25/2020 18:20

  • Clarín.com

  • Fame

Updated 11/25/2020 6:20 PM

Throughout his life,

Diego Maradona

, who died at the age of 60, was always accompanied by a woman in his daily life.

He had formal partners and brief romances.

His first partner was

Claudia Villafañe

, the only one he married.

The relationship began when he was 17 years old, in 1977, in Villa Fiorito.

Claudia, with a low profile, accompanied Maradona in the most important moments of his football career

.

His beginnings in Argentinos Juniors, his arrival in Boca, his transfer to Barcelona, ​​splendor in Napoli and the Argentine National Team, with the 1986 world title as the highest point.

Diego Maradona and Claudia Villafañe, at their wedding in 1989.

The two

were married on November 7, 1989

in the Iglesia del Santísimo Sacramento in Buenos Aires.

Then the celebration continued at Luna Park.

Diego and Claudia had two daughters: Dalma Nerea (1987) and Giannina Dinorah (1989).

Diego always named her as

the love of his life

.

Even in 2005, already separated, in his program

La Noche del Diez

, he himself wondered what he would like Claudia to say at her funeral.

"What would I like him to say? Even if you're dead I still love you," he

confessed.

The last photo of Diego Maradona and Claudia Villafañe, with Dalma, Giannina and Benjamín.

(Instagram Giannina Maradona)

In 1986,

Maradona had a parallel relationship with the Italian Cristiana Sinagra

and from that relationship Diego Armando Maradona Sinagra was born.

The young man bore his last name and was subjected to DNA tests, but El Diez did not recognize him.

Until

in 2016 Maradona recognized his first-born son Diego Maradona Jr

, with whom he built a very good relationship.

Maradona

divorced Villafañe in 2003

(in 1998 he had left the family home) and two years later he began dating 

Verónica Ojeda

.

She also accompanied him in difficult moments of health and was also with him when he became technical director of the National Team at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Diego Armando Maradona and Verónica Ojeda, at the San Marino Moto GP Grand Prix.

EFE / Ettore Ferrari.

Archive.

In 2013, Diego Fernando Maradona was born, the only son of the couple.

As it turned out, the new paternity would have enraged Ten and would have caused the dissolution of the couple.

The relationship had its twists and turns.

The last one was at the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, when

Ojeda and Diego Fernando lived with Maradona in Mexico

, when he was directing Dorados de Sinaloa.

Verónica Ojeda, Diego Maradona and their son, Diego Fernando Maradona.

Later, Maradona got in a relationship with

Rocío Oliva

, 30 years younger than him.

She was 20 years old and they met at a hotel in Mar del Plata.

"He sent me some flowers and I was stunned when they arrived, but I fell in love with the coexistence. After the flowers arrived, it took like two years before I heard from him again," Oliva recalled about her first date with him. Ten.

She accompanied him during the professional journey that Maradona had in the United Arab Emirates.

In 2018, the couple definitively separated.

It was the last formal love of Diego Maradona.

Diego Armando Maradona, in 2017, with Rocío Oliva, at an event in Calcutta, India.

photo: Debajyoti Chakraborty / Zuma Press / dpa Archive.

Valeria Sabalaín is one of the women with whom the former soccer player had a brief affair.

She is the mother of

Jana Maradona

,

Maradona's

fourth daughter, whom he recognized at 18.

Beyond the mothers of his children, Maradona had a relationship with numerous famous figures, such as Graciela Alfano, Wanda Nara and Lucía Galán, who confirmed that it was a short-term love.

DR

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Source: clarin

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