Three children with different women in Cuba

Former Napoli player will reportedly travel to Cuba for DNA tests and give his kids his last name. 

The former Argentina international, Diego Maradona is set to travel to Cuba for DNA tests after it was revealed he has fathered three children in the country with two different women.

Maradona, who led his country to the 1986 World Cup glory, was already known to have five children from other relationships with different women.

But several reports in Argentina have now disclosed he has another three kids in Cuba by two different women.

According to Maradona’s lawyer, Matias Morla, “Maradona has been in contacted with the trio and intends to give them his surname once he has travelled to Cuba to prove his paternity in the near future.”

"We are going to do the DNA tests. They are from different women and Diego will recognize them when he returns to Cuba," Morla told Argentine newspaper Clarin .

The 58-year-old Maradona now works as technical director at Mexican club Dorados de Sinaloa.

Also, his lawyer disclosed that he is going through the Cuban legal system to deal whilst it has also emerged he will soon become a grandfather for the second time.

“Diego is happy, happy, for his present and because he is going to be a grandfather again. Diego Junior is going to be a father again," the lawyer revealed.

In 2000, Maradona relocated  to Cuba, spending four years in Havana in an attempt to shake his drug addiction in a country with strict penalties.

He established an unlikely friendship with revolutionary leader Fidel Castro during his days in Cuba, leading to him getting a tattoo of Castro's face on his arm.

With recent developments, It appears the tattoo might not be the only permanent legacy from Maradona's time in Havana, where he was known to frequently enjoy the night-life.

Maradona was regularly seen with Cuban women, leading to his lawyer suggesting last year he may have more children in the country.

"I'm afraid of Cuba, I hope it's one (child) ... he was there a long time, he was single and behaved badly," he said on a television show last year.”