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Sunday, Jul 13, 2025
A flawed genius alright but a generation of football fans loved Maradona for his unpredictability, for his childish irresponsibility and for having the guts to take on the officialdom.
Three days of national mourning were called for the player who led Argentina to a 1986 World Cup win and is revered with cult-like status.
It's highly unlikely anyone will touch the hearts of football lovers the way the little man from Lanus in Buenos Aires did.
Maradona came to Naples in 1984 when he was 23 for a then world-record $7.5 million contract. Over the next seven years, he helped perennial underdogs Napoli to their only two Serie A titles and their sole major European trophy.
The king of football is Pele but the god of the game is Maradona. A lot of talented players like Messi and Ronaldo are in the world stage but none of them has gained the ‘god’ status, writes I M Vijayan.
Maradona had the self-belief, determination and sheer arrogance to keep on making the defenders look like fools.
Onmanorama is republishing an article published in 2014 to celebrate the legend of Maradona.
Barcelona returned to winning ways in La Liga with a resounding 4-0 home win over Osasuna.
Maradona's lawyer, Matias Moria, on Thursday said he would ask for a full investigation of the circumstances of the soccer legend's death, criticising what he said was a slow response by emergency service.
The shirt is owned by former England player Steve Hodge, who got it from Maradona after the match in which his attempted back pass led to the controversial goal that helped dump England out of the tournament which Argentina went on to win.
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