Football legend Diego Maradona died from a heart attack on November 25, 2020 at the age of 60. Diego Armando Maradona was born in October 30, 1960, in Lanus, Argentina. He made his playing debut with the Argentinos Juniors youth team, and formed a team consisting of mostly 14-year olds. The team played about 136 unbeaten matches. By the age 15, Maradona had turned into a professional footballer. His style of play captivated his fans for more than twenty years. He was idolised as the ‘Pibe de Oro’ or ‘Golden Boy’. The No. 10 he wore on his jersey became synonymous with him.
He won many titles while playing in the early 1980s for Argentinos Juniors and Boca Juniors before moving on to Spanish and Italian clubs.
In 1982, he was transferred to Barcelona club of Spain for a then world record fee of $ 7.6 million.
In 1984, Barcelona sold him to Napoli in Italy, where he remade the club’s fortunes almost single-handedly making the club win the 1987 Italian league championship title for the first time in six decades.
He was popularly known for the ‘Hand of God’ goal in which he punched the ball into England’s net in 1986 World Cup quarterfinals.
In 1986, he led the country to World Cup win in England.
However, his career ended in 1994 when he failed a drug test. In 1997, he announced his retirement from football due to another drug test failure.
He was regularly paired with Pele, the Brazilian great, as the best of all time. In 2001, Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) named him one of the two greatest in the sport’s history, alongside Pele.