Maradona Relaunches Coaching Career With UAE's Al-Fujairah SC

After a five-year-gap, Argentina football legend Diego Maradona made a striking comeback Sunday as the new technical director of Al-Fujairah SC of the United Arab Emirates league.

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The 56-year-old soccer legend confirmed the appointment on his Facebook page, holding a red and white stripped jersey. “I want to tell you that I’m the new technical director of Al-Fujairah SC, of the second division of United Arab Emirates,” he wrote. “These are my new colors!”

According to his advisor, Rashid Ali Garcia, Maradona has signed a one-year contract. He is expected to outline the plans for the club in a press conference next week.

Maradona's last job in management was with Dubai's Al Wasl of the Pro-League, but he was sacked in 2012. Maradona also guided Argentina to the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

The Argentine legend recently participated in inaugurating a soccer field in Brazil geared towards the campesinos and community members.

Maradona was deeply attached to the Cuban revolutionaries Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, so much so that he has them etched on his body. He considered Fidel to be his "second father."

In November 2016, after Fidel passed away, Maradona said, "He (Fidel) advised me, spoke to me about drugs, about what he could. He was like my second father. I lived for four years in Cuba. He opened doors for me when clinics in Argentina closed them because nobody wanted (to deal with) the death of Maradona."