Maradona fumes, draws FIFA ire

CAIRO – Diego Maradona’s profanity-filled tirade on live television after Argentina qualified for next year’s World Cup will lead FIFA’s disciplinary committee to open a case against the former great.

After Wednesday’s 1-0 victory over Uruguay, Maradona used crude expletives on live television – much of it directed at his critics and reporters.

“The reports we have received so far leave us no other alternative but to ask the disciplinary committee of FIFA to open a case against the coach Diego Armando Maradona,” FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Friday from the Under-20 World Cup.

“As the president of FIFA it is my duty and my obligation to (refer) it to the disciplinary committee,” he said.            (AP)