ABOVE: The £200 four foot high cake dedicated to Maradonna / europics.at
ABOVE: But the football legend refused to try the cake
3rd November 2009
PENNILESS child rubbish collectors in Calcutta blew their entire life savings to create a giant cake for visiting football legend Maradona - only for him to not touch a crumb
The Indian youngsters spent more than £200 on the four foot high cake in the striker's national Argentinean blue and white colours to celebrate his 49th birthday.
But the star - on a charity visit to India - refused to try even a mouthful of the treat, claiming to be on a strict diet to regain his playing physique.
Fan Kamal Akash, 12, told the Austrian Times: "It was fantastic to see our hero in the flesh. We would have liked him to have had some cake but he did see it and liked it."