Double delight for Diego Maradona

It was a double joy for Al Wasl coach Diego Maradona on Tuesday night. His family, including his grandson Benjamin and son-in-law Sergio Aguero, were around him when his club beat Al Wahda on penalties in the quarter-final of the Gulf Champions League. Sergio, who scored the City’s match winner against QPR to earn Sheikh Mansour’s team the Premier league title after 44 years, later tweeted, ‘We brought some luck to Diego’s team at Dubai, it seems.’ Maradona’s  Al Wasl avenged their Pro-League defeat by edging out Al Wahda on penalties to move into the semi-final of the Gulf Champions League. The match ended in a 1-1 draw after both teams failed to break the deadlock in the normal time. Juan Manuel Oliveira put the home team into the lead in the 112th minute but Al Wahda hit back a minute later when Fernando Biano restored parity for the visitors from a free-kick. In the penalty shoot-out Oliveira, Donda, Yaser Salem, Essa Ali and Iranian Mohd Khalatbari found the net for Al Wasl while Biano, Saeed Al Khatiri and Omar Ali were successful for the losers. Al Wasl won 5-3. After the match, watched by Sergio, Maradona  admitted he was looking forward to some family time with his grandson Benjamin, daughter Giannina and Sergio. It might be recalled that Maradona missed Aguero’s winning goal for City against QPR as he was in training. “I have not spent much time with them yet, but it going to be great to have them here and I am looking forward to seeing them later,” said Maradona. “I spent some time with Benjamin after the match and we played a few passes and he scored two goals. Whenever City win I’m happy and when Al Wasl wins my entire family are happy for me,” Maradona added, happiness written all over his face.