Diego Maradona will remain as Gimnasia coach until the end of the 2020-1 season after extending his contract, the club confirmed on Wednesday.
The 1986 World Cup hero arrived in La Plata in September 2019 with the club mired in relegation trouble having lost four and drawn one of their opening five games.
Gimnasia will remain in the Primera Division for the coming term, however, after relegation was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.
And they will also boast Diego on the bench once more after he agreed a one-year extension with the Lobo.
"You are known as Pelusa, the Cosmic Kite, God, Diego, Diegote, captain," the club wrote on its official Twitter account.
"But to us you are another Tripero and your heart is already as white and blue as ours is. Gimnasia 2021 Maradona."
Maradona's return to Argentine football - where he had previously coached in 1994-5 during brief spells with Deportivo Mandiyu and Racing Club and starred as a player for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors and Newell's Old Boys - caused a stir not just at Gimnasia but across the Superliga.
Membership numbers at the Tripero increased by more than 5,000 in the space of a few weeks, while each away game was greeted by lavish tributes for the coach and standing ovations from the terraces.
Many clubs even went as far as to provide a leather 'throne' for Maradona to sit on and observe each game instead of the substitutes' bench.
On the pitch, meanwhile, having suffered a rocky start with three consecutive defeats after taking over, the former Argentina, Dorados and Al-Wasl boss oversaw a modest improvement in La Plata.
Gimnasia won six, drew five and lost 10 of their fixtures under Maradona, a run that lifted them to 19th in the Superliga standings at the league's close while keeping the club rooted to the bottom of the average points table that decides relegation.
But with the drop suspended for both 2020 and 2021, the Lobo can now look to the future with Maradona in tow, after initial speculation that the legend would depart in the close-season.
goalofcentury
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UEFA_One
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Your stupid government makes you think that other countries did it? Wow China is the new North Korea. Get out of there while you can because China will be nuked
goalofcentury
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Yes! Chinese people are infecting the world with their Chinese restaurants and now with coronavirus. Your stupid nation created this virus and while the rest of the world is dying your stupid country has the vaccine and doesn’t want to save other people
Actually there is no real answer where the virus came from so far, in the beginning, we chinese also thought it came from wild animals by food, however, with the new research, people think it was infected by other countries, you know, at last october, there was world military games hold in chinese wuhan city, just 1 month after the games, many covid-19 people found and died in wuhan city, we don't think it's casual case.
UEFA_One
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Yes! Chinese people are infecting the world with their Chinese restaurants and now with coronavirus. Your stupid nation created this virus and while the rest of the world is dying your stupid country has the vaccine and doesn’t want to save other people
goalofcentury
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"fake god" right?😂
he is the real god of soccer, no doubt, d10s
goalofcentury
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Oh look someone from bat nation
UEFA_One
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You are known as God, Diego, Diegote, captain,"
Oh look someone from bat nation
Faridur_Rahman_vai
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Legend Maradona
deextaq
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kimdempz
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Jababdeosy
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You are known as God, Diego, Diegote, captain,"
"fake god" right?😂
Fohacknptu
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druglord
goalofcentury
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You are known as God, Diego, Diegote, captain,"