This week a video emerged purportedly showing Diego Maradona involved in a domestic dispute with his girlfriend.
Secretly filmed by Rocio Oliva, the footage accuses the 1986 World Cup winner of striking the 23-year-old in a row over her mobile phone in which she can be heard saying "stop hitting me".
Maradona has denied the allegation, stating that he knocked the phone out of her hand.
But what has the reaction been in his home country where he is idolised because of his achievements on the pitch and almost in spite of his indiscretions off it?
BBC South American football correspondent Tim Vickery joined us on the line to talk about the reaction to that footage.
"Part of the appeal that he has [in Argentina] is exactly because of his fallibility and the times that he falls down. There are some people who love him almost not despite these but because of these and they identify with the problems that he goes through and the fact that he gets knocked down and somehow finds a way to get back up again. So there are some people that will stay with him no matter what. Others are thoroughly embarrassed by his antics," explained Tim.
Meanwhile, Carlos Tevez is back in the Argentina squad after three years frozen out, and Tim explained how that came about and how he must compete with Sergio Aguero and Gonzalo Higuain for the centre forward role in Gerardo Martino's new look Argentina side.
Listen to the full interview via the podcast.
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