Doctors in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires reported progress today in treating Diego Maradona for alcohol abuse and other excesses that prompted the soccer great’s latest trip to hospital.

Initial medical tests on Argentine football hero Diego Maradona, who is being treated at a private clinic for alcoholism and excessive eating, are all “favourable”, doctors said.

ARGENTINIAN football legend Diego Maradona had his stomach stapled to reduce his ballooning waistline, his Colombian doctors said at the weekend.