JOY DAILY REPORTER
Argentine football legend Diego Maradona angry with the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) after the world football body is asking seven players Costa Rica undergo drug testing.
Test after the match with Italy was made on concerns sponsor companies will not pay for sponsorship for the 2014 World Cup champion team like Italy should not qualify for the second round, according to Astro Awani.
Costa Rica last week shocked the South American champions Uruguay 3-1. It then menumbangkang Italy 1-0 on Friday. The victory of qualifying for Costa Rica to participate in the knockout round of 16 teams.
Under Fifa rules, two players per team will be drug tested after the game.
However, the media reported five more players Costa Rica also called for testing.
Maradona was sent home during the 1994 World Cup in the United States (U.S.) for failing to banned substances testing Fifa criticized the actions as "not respect the rules."
He claimed that Costa Rica team checked tightly as sponsor "will not pay as promised sponsorship" if the top teams such as Italy crashed out.
"Why seven players from Costa Rica, and not seven from Italy?" Maradona said.
According to media reports, FIFA said, five additional players is because they are not tested prior to the game.
But Maradona is not satisfied with the explanation. "This all happened because some people are not happy to sit on Costa Rica and not a team of qualified (to the next round) and the sponsor will not fulfill the promise.
"I know what I'm saying because it's never happened to me.
"Seven players? Like I never saw it."
In a documentary about himself, Maradona has expressed his intense irritated to Fifa which he described as "a liar" and "bandits".
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