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Revision as of 10:21, 8 March 2002 by 151.24.144.220 (talk) (some more)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Diego Armando Maradona is a former Argentinian football player. Considered by many the best football player of the 20th century.
He was born in villa Fiorito, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 10/30/1960. Maradona led the Argentinian Soccer Team to victory in the World Cup in 1986 (in which he admittedly cheated in order to bring his team to the finals in the famous "Hand of God" incident), He played for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, Barcelona and Naples
In the 1990s, his reputation was stained by a cocaine addiction that he tried to control on several occasions. In Naples, where still now he is beloved (having brought the local team to win for the first time the italian championship), he also had a scandal regarding an illegitimate son and was object of some suspects about an eventual frequentation of Camorra (local Mafia).
In this decade, he played again in Neweld`s Old Boys and Boca Juniors, without much success.
A brother of Maradona is a soccer player too, and the young illegitimate child is now trying to start a career in soccer, even if with more spectacularity than results.