Fans trying to put Diego Maradona's face on 10 peso bill
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"Diego" has already entered Argentinian slang as another word for 10 pesos and more than 18,000 have joined a Facebook group entitled Para que UN DIEGO sea UN DIEGO - which translate to "let the Diego be Diego".
The group is asking for the current occupant Manuel Belgrano to be shifted to the 2 bill, leaving Maradona to assume the 10 with which he is inextricably linked in his home nation.
Whilst Belgrano may have lead Argentina's fight for independence and created the country's flag, he didn't almost single-handedly winning the World Cup for a football-mad country.
El Diego's campaigners have even created a mock-up of what the 10 peso bill would look like, with an iconic image from the 1986 World Cup triumph.
Maradona himself has so far declined to comment on the campaign.
