Soccer Football - Argentina - Juan Carmelo Zerillo Stadium, La Plata, Argentina - September 8, 2019 Diego Maradona during his presentation as the new coach of Gimnasia y Esgrima REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Some 25,000 Argentine soccer fans on Sunday cheered the country's legendary World Cup winner Diego Maradona as he kicked off his new role as coach of the local club Gimnasia y Esgrima to revive the struggling team.
"We are going to get ahead together," the 58-year-old former striker told fans at a stadium in the city of La Plata just outside Buenos Aires on his first day of training with the team known as "El Lobo," or The Wolf.
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