Diego Maradona

Diego Maradona

  

The Living Legend from Argentina Football world in the '80^s he was Diego Armando Maradona. He was born October 30^th, 1960 in the city of Buenos Aires Argentina. In the field, his position as a Supporting striker and attacking Midfielder.

His debut began in 1976 with Argentinos Juniors when he was 16 years old. In 1981, he was bought by the club Boca Juniors for £ 1 million. Which in the first year of joining he immediately presented first trophy for Boca Juniors, that was ‘Campeonato Metropolitano’. Then in 1982, he was sold to FC Barcelona for £ 3 million. And with this ‘Catalan club’, they won the Copa del Rey and that was the beginning of Maradona in Football.

Maradona’s wonderful show was at the time of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, where Argentina became a World Champion for the second time, after the first one in 1978 in Argentina. In that match, Maradona made the best goals of all time when England met Argentina in the quarter-finals. Maradona dribbled from the midfield to the goal over five England players and conquered the famous England goalkeeper, Peter Shilton.

Unfortunately, also in that match, Maradona made a very poor goal as well. That second goals are created through the help of hand, says Maradona as a result of assistance "hand of God". He finally admitted that it was done intentionally on August 22^nd, 2005.

After that, he started a new career as a talk show host. But in 2008, Maradona was surprisingly elected as the head coach of the Argentina National Team. Finally, Maradona pointed Maxi Rodriguez, Atletico Madrid midfielder as the new national team captain.

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