Maradona wants to make comeback at 41

Diego Maradona wants to make a comeback at the age of 41, according to his agent Guillermo Coppola.

Coppola said that a planned farewell match for Maradona, who finally retired in 1997 after a succession of comebacks, could in fact re-start his career.

"I don't know if the farewell game is really a farewell game because throughout the project he has said that if everything works out well, then they final words have not been spoken," Coppola told Radio Red in an interview from Cuba.

"It's as if Maradona has the idea of doing something else in football -- to carry on playing."

Maradona, who will be 41 at the end of October, is in Havana trying to shed weight and get fit for his farewell match which is due to be played in Buenos Aires on November 12.

Coppola said the match, between the Argentina national team and a team of invited international stars, would take place at the Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires -- home of Maradona's beloved Boca Juniors.

"Perhaps it should be called a tribute-match rather than a farewell match," said Coppola.

Maradona recently said in an interview that "football runs through my body and I miss it."