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Diego Armando Maradona Franco (Spanish: [ˈdjeɣo maɾaˈðona]; 30 October 1960 – 25 November 2020) was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, he was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the 20th Century award, alongside Pelé.
- The Technical Uniqueness of Maradona
- The Peak of His Career
- Napoli's First-Ever Scudetto
- The Other Side of Maradona
- The Beginning of The End
As per the Argentine icon, football is a game of deceit. Without a shadow of a doubt, he was the greatest exponent of the feint. He would pretend to move one way only to slither the other, leaving imbalanced opponents tumbling on the floor, and then just to show off, he would cut back to go another way. He zig-zagged through many defences even as d...
From a relegation-threatened outfit in 1983-84 to a top-three club in 1985-86, the progress made by Napoli was there for all to see. The racist chants by northern clubs were an underhand acknowledgement of their growing threat. Maradona fed off this vitriol and in his second season (1985-86), the club improved by leaps and bounds. The diminutive st...
Maradona returned to Italy as a World Cup winner and the press could never get enough of him. However, there's also a cost to fame. He was in a relationship with teenage sweetheart Claudia Villafañe but he had endured his fair share of misdemeanours and flings. One of them, in particular, caught up with him. He had sired a kid in the spring with hi...
Notwithstanding his anointment as a god, he had Dionysian streaks - the sensual, spontaneous, and emotional aspects of human nature were alive and popping in his blood. These aspects eventually led him to give in to temptations of flesh, money, food, and desire. He had discovered cocaine but was not addicted to it yet and Naples still revered and p...
1990. It was time for the World Cup in Italy. In the semi-finals, it was Italy versus Argentina, in Naples. Maradona played up the north-south divide and said that nothing would make him happier than the support of the Neapolitans for Argentina. There was one problem though - they had to do it against their own country. Italians supported their cou...
Diego Armando Maradona (Lanús, 30 ottobre 1960 – Tigre, 25 novembre 2020) è stato un calciatore, allenatore di calcio e dirigente sportivo argentino di ruolo centrocampista offensivo, campione del mondo nel 1986 e vicecampione del mondo nel 1990 con la nazionale argentina.
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Sep 15, 2024 · Diego Maradona (born October 30, 1960, Lanus, Buenos Aires, Argentina—died November 25, 2020, Tigre, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine football (soccer) player who is generally regarded as the top footballer of the 1980s and one of the greatest of all time.
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The bond between Diego Armando Maradona and Naples goes beyond football. It is a visceral, otherworldly relationship. We rediscover five places in the city forever linked to the Pibe de Oro.
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Dec 4, 2020 · Napoli have officially renamed their San Paolo home stadium in memory of Diego Maradona after the club legend died aged 60. Maradona, regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all...
