A clip from 2015 movie Youth shared with false claims relating to Diego Maradona
A video of a movie based on veteran footballer Diego Maradona's life went viral on social media recently. The 22 second clip is being widely shared with the claims that the person in the video is the legendary footballer Maradona. CLAIM In the viral video an over weight man can be seen juggling with a tennis ball. The video is making rounds with the following caption- How do you convince your children that this was the best player in the world and achieved the *World Cup in 1986 Maradona ...??? FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/dmookherji/videos/2904149479641038/ archive This video was shared by facebook user 'Deb Mookherji' on 3rd June and has garnered over 44k views and 549 shares. https://www.facebook.com/DrBasudevTewari/videos/1094118327640929/?v=1094118327640929 archive This was shared on Facebook by 'Dr. Basudev Tewari' on 4th June and has garnered over 11k views and 264 shares. Screenshot/archive TWITTER https://twitter.com/Jasonbranagan11/status/1268233003270049792?s=20 archive The following video was tweeted by 'JayLFC' on 3rd June and has over 108.3k views and 36 retweets. https://twitter.com/Ffs_OMG/status/1268600730501423105 archive The following video was tweeted by 'Ffs OMG Vids' on twitter on 4th June and has over 19.3k views and 191 retweets. TRUTH The following claim is false. The video clip is from an Italian comedy movie- Youth in which the Argentinian actor Roly Serrano played the role of Diego Maradona. Read the full article











