Former soccer player Diego Maradona said Wednesday that next week he will decide whether or not he will accept the directive charge in Argentine soccer club Boca Juniors, when he meet with players who demand awards for their international tour.

Maradona, 45, told local daily Ole he will define whether he will return to his former team, now as an executive, in the match of players at Holland, in the second part of the tour of Boca around South Korea.

The problem is the determination of Maradona about players collecting bonuses "for winning" and for "giving satisfactions" to fans, while the players want this payment for participating in the tour irrespective of results.

In remarks to Ole while in Italy, the former captain of the national soccer team of Argentina, who retired in 1996, said he would have been ashamed for collecting any sum after the 4-0 defeat Boca suffered in Libertadores Cup versus Chivas of Mexico.

Nonetheless, striker Martin Palermo, who heads the petition for awards, said he trusted on a solution to the conflict in the meeting with Maradona. "When we ask what is due to us, he will know how to understand us," because players know "how Maradona thought when he was a player."

Maradona said in response to press versions accusing him of taking sides with the Boca executives: "I am and will be a soccer player," said he in defending at any price the friendship links him to players and the technical body.

"I would love" they getting one million US dollars if they win a match, said Maradona, although he warned "if I hinder the players, I go home."

Source: Xinhua