Diego Maradona, Argentine football (soccer) player who is generally regarded as the top footballer of the 1980s and one of the greatest of all time. He led club teams to championships in Argentina, Italy, and Spain, and he starred on the Argentine national team that won the 1986 World Cup.
A new trial to determine who bears responsibility for the death of football icon Diego Maradona has started in Argentina under public scrutiny, nearly a year after the original case ended in a ...
Diego Armando Maradona Franco (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.
sportsgrid.com: Diego Maradona: Football Icon of the 1980s and World Cup Hero
Diego Armando Maradona, often hailed as the defining footballer of the 1980s, demonstrated an unmatched dominance in football, culminating in a World Cup victory that seemed almost predestined. Raised ...
Diego Armando Maradona was born on 30 October 1960, at the Policlínico (Polyclinic) Evita Hospital in Lanús, Buenos Aires Province, to a poor family that had moved from Corrientes Province; he was raised in Villa Fiorito, a shantytown on the southern outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. [11][12] He was the first son after four daughters. He has two younger brothers, Hugo (el Turco) and ...
The first trial - which saw members of Maradona's medical team accused of poor care - collapsed after a judge let cameras into the court.