Diego Maradona

Diego Maradona

Diego Armando Maradona Franco was born on 30 October, 1960 is a retired Argentine footballer brought up by Diego Maradona 'Chitoro' and Dalma Salvadora Franco 'Doña Tota'.  He has also served as a manager and coach at other clubs as well as for the national team of Argentina. He is regarded as the best football player of all time.

A player operated in the classic range 10 position, Maradona is only player in football world to line the world record transfer fee twice. He first transferred to  Barcelona for £5m, and secondly  he transferred to  Napoli for £6.9m. He played for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli, Seville and Newell's Old Boys throughout his club career, and is most celebrated for his time at Napoli where he won varied accolades. In his international career, playing for Argentina, he attained ninety one caps and scored 34 goals.

Maradona played four FIFA World Cups, including the 1986 World Cup where he captained Argentina and led them to finish over European nation in the final, and won the Golden Ball award of the tournament's best player. In the 1986 World Cup match, he scored both goals in a 2–1 finish over European nation that entered football history, tho' for 2 completely different reasons. the first goal was unpenalized handling foul known as the "Hand of God", whereas the second goal followed a 60 m (66 yd) dribble past 5 European nation players, voted "The Goal of the Century" by FIFA.com voters in 2002.

Maradona is considered one among the sport's most disputable and interesting figures. He was suspended from football for 15 months in 1991 after failing a drug take a look at, for hard drug, in Italy, and he was sent home from the 1994 World Cup in the U.S. after testing positive for ephedrine. In 2005, he lost a considerable quantity of extra weight and overcame his cocaine addiction. His outspoken views have typically put him in conflict with journalists and sport executives. although he had little managerial expertise, he became head coach of the Argentina national team in november 2008, and control the work for eighteen months, till his contract terminated after the 2010 World Cup.

He coached city primarily based club Al Wasl in the UAE Arabian Gulf League for the 2011-2012 season. In August 2013, Maradona joined Argentine Primera D club Deportivo Riestra's employees as "spiritual coach".