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Sepp Blatter denies offering money to Diego Maradona for FIFA work

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has denied that 1986 World Cup winner Diego Maradona was ever offered money to work with the sport's governing body.

Claims are made in Maradona's new book about the 1986 World Cup, "My World Cup, my truth: This is how we won the trophy," that Blatter and former FIFA president Joao Havelange had approached him to suggest he work for the world football governing body.

When asked in an interview with Argentine newspaper La Nacion if he and Havelange had offered him money to join "the FIFA family," Blatter said he suggested that Maradona do freelance work in 2001 but remuneration was never discussed.