Football legend Maradona’s early home becomes soup kitchen for the needy

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Argentine football legend Diego Maradona's childhood home in Villa Fiori, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, has been converted into a soup kitchen for the poor.

Although the property no longer belongs to the Maradona family, the wall outside it bears a mural of the 1986 World Cup-winner along with the title - The House of God.

While the home itself no longer exists, the dirt yard upon which it was built has been lent to a group of volunteers, who prepare food for the poor.

As per British tabloid The Sun, Leonardo Fabian Alvarez, a pastor who runs the makeshift soup kitchen, said: "People who have lost their jobs come to the line, collecting food and whatever we give them."