We do not know whether to consider football as an art or simply a sport tremendously popular, but we are sure that here, as in painting, in cinema or in literature, there are also geniuses who are capable of doing incredible things, thanks to their special abilities and that imagination that is capable of turning anything into a masterpiece. From Pelé to Messi, from Cruyff to Cristiano Ronaldo , there are many stars that the king sport has given over these decades, and fortunately we are able to enjoy an incredible era within the soccer world, thanks to the extreme quality of players like Leo, Cristiano, Neymar or Mbappe, who are authentic class made soccer player.
The eternal debate about who has been the best player in history has taken a turn in recent times. Many point to the 10 of Barcelona as the best soccer player that has ever existed, and others prefer to opt for their most staunch rival today, Cristiano Ronaldo >. There are also those that point to old legends, such as Pelé, Cruyff or Di Stefano . However, there is a name that is always repeated, a name that has already been engraved in gold letters in the history of the sport, and is that of Diego Armando Maradona . In the countryside, a true fantasy. Off the court, a man with lights and shadows, whose private life almost ended up eating the football myth itself. In this article we are going to tell you something more about its history.
Its beginnings in the world of football
Born in Buenos Aires in 1960 , little Diego already showed his great class and speed from a very early age. Thanks to that precocity, Diego has already started playing with boys bigger than him in the inferiors of Argentinos Junior , his first team, which led him to win numerous national and Latin American championships, and soon called the attention of other bigger clubs. In fact, Maradona debuted in the Argentine First Division with just 15 years, reaching several goals already in that same season. Such was the impact that Diego caused in his country that soon after he was called by the Argentine team , although finally the coach Menotti left him out of the 1978 World Cup, due to how young he was.
A real star
After that first disappointment, Diego continued playing in Argentinos until shortly after he signed for Boca, already turned into a real star . In 1982 he played his first World Cup with Argentina and arrived at F.C. Barcelona with the world star vitola. A couple of years later he signed for Naples , leading this small team from southern Italy to win several championships, becoming a true God in that city. In 1986, he won the Mexico World Cup by leading Argentina to the title and performing some of his most memorable performances, such as the match against England, which is already football history. Later there would come a time of greater decline for his private problems, would sign for Sevilla and later return to Argentina , with which he was going to play the 1994 World Cup. However, a new positive in an antipoding test he left him out, and his career was practically finished then .
The dark side of his personal life
Just as genius as on the court, Maradona has led a turbulent private life marked above all by excesses. He has confessed to being addicted to cocaine and various other drugs, for which he even got to be suspended twice throughout his career. This has also led him to appear on the front pages of newspapers and magazines, not only sports, but also other types of press. In his last years of career and once retired, his situation was further complicated. Many of his statements worried fans, as Diego seemed unable to discern between what was right and what was not . The fight against his ex-wife for the custody of his daughters also marked a good part of this last stage.
Is it really the God that everyone sees?
If we stick to the strictly sporty, Maradona is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular and brilliant players in football history , and to refute it there we have the images of his goals, his comebacks, his dribbles… He managed to take Argentina to victory in 86, and also to Naples, a team that before his arrival was not able to bid for being in the top positions of the classification. His way of understanding football and doing things that others could not even imagine have made him a true star, and even his way of being, atypical and rebellious, has also helped to enlarge his legend Is it better than Cruyff, Messi or Cristiano? That is already decided by each one, as understood by each spectator or fan.
Maradona today
After his farewell as a footballer, Maradona stayed for a while away from the sport and trying to solve his private life. He trained the Argentine National Team in the 2010 World Cup, he won Spain, and later he was traveling through many countries in minor leagues, training little-known teams. He has now returned to Argentina to take over the Gymnastics and Fencing of the Silver, a club that is in the last place of the classification of the league of his country , and that has put his hopes in Diego, to save them from going down to Division B. While few question Maradona’s immense talent on the grass, it seems that as coach Diego has not quite curdled .