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DeTect: Trending video is not of Maradona, but his lookalike

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Chennai

A video of an obese man kicking a tennis ball has gone viral with the claim that the man is Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona. 

Alt News received fact-check requests for the video on its official mobile application. 

A keyword search on YouTube led to an extended version of the same video uploaded in 2015. While the title of the video claimed that the man is Maradona, the description said, clip from the Italian film Youth.

First published on www.altnews.in

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