27-11-2016 01:34 via news.yahoo.com

Soccer legend Maradona mourns 'second father' Castro

For soccer great Diego Maradona, Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro was more than a friend and fellow Latin American legend, he was "a second father." Maradona said Castro's death late on Friday hit him like a tennis ball to the chest served by Juan Martin del Potro, the Argentine player he cheered on in the Davis Cup final where he received the news. "After my father, it's the deepest sorrow I know." The two controversial figures first met in 1987, a year after Maradona helped Argentina win the W
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