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Diego Maradona in talks to become Honduras new coach

Por Luciano Castro
Soccer Columnist
Former Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona gestures during friendly soccer match in San Pedro de Sula, Honduras, Wednesday, Oct. 25. Maradona traveled to Honduras with a team of selected former Artentinian soccer players to perform a 'showbol show. Argentina's team won 9-3

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Diego Maradona is in talks with the Honduras soccer federation over becoming national team coach.

The federation said last month it opened talks with the former Argentina captain, who would aim to lead the Central American nation at the 2010 World Cup.

Honduras has only made it to one World Cup _ in Spain in 1982.

"We would like to know Maradona's intentions so we can analyze whether we are able economically to contract him as a coach,'' federation president Rafael Leonardo Callejas said, adding that the federation would make a decision next week.
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