Diego Armando Maradona
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Diego Armando Maradona is a former Argentine football player. He was born October 30, 1960 in Lanús, Buenos Aires). He was nicknamed El Diez, Pelusa, El Diego and El pibe de oro, He won the World Cup in Mexico 1986.
He is regarded by many people as the best player in the history of the game [1]. In his life, he had problems and addictions to drugs. But after his drug abuse finshed for a short period he returned to play for Napoli of Italy but the he failed another drug test and was banned for another year and then on his 37th birthday finally announced that he was retiring from football. He tried to take a career as a coach but failed miserably. He seemed unable to keep one team for more than four months. In 2001 was voted player of the century but he could not keep the title so gave Pele the award of best player for half a century. In his career, he scored 356 goals.
