Biography
In a small provincial town, the suburb of Buenos Aires Lanus, on October 30, 1960 in the family of simple working Diego Maradona and housewives Dalmo Franco appeared the fifth child of Diego. He was the first boy in the family - before the distances were born only girls. The childhood of the future star of football passed in the Argentine slums, where he studied to own the ball with the courtyard boys. The Maradona family was poor, so he had to be content with the simple entertainment of the inhabitants of the slums.The first, more or less decent, leather soccer ball was presented by Diego by his cousin. Such a grandiose for a boy from a poor family gift was presented on his seven years. It was this ball that became start-up in the future career of the great football player of Diego Maradona.
Diego's father taught him to beat this ball at the wall, put a shock with his left foot, stay on the playing field, skillfully owning the ball. Since the young lover of football was Leftche, he was especially easily given "left" strikes. He increasingly took part in the courtyard games and held the position of Liebero - Dearen's attacker became a little later.
Football
Already then, barely young Diego fulfilled eight years, he noted a specialist who was engaged in the selection of talents for the Archntios Junior club. He was suggested to play for the junior team, which was called "Los Sebalitos" (bulb).
The participants of this community have entertained the audience in the breaks between the games, served the balls of footballers during the game. In Lukovich, Diego was the youngest, but was distinguished by special technique and stability, which made him the leader among other participants.
Coach Francesco Cornocho called him a "doll-nevaleshka" due to the fact that he did not fall even after strong blows on the feet. About Maradona, as the future star of Argentine football, began to speak after the junior match with River Plait - the Argentina champion at that time. The match ended with a score of 7: 1 in favor of the Diego team. By the way, five of the seven goals scored the young footballer, who was only 10 years old at that time.
From 12 years old Maradona played for Argentine juniors. But, despite all the successes, the family of Diego, as before, disaggained. In addition, she became even more - Diego's mother gave birth to two more brothers and sister.
In part-time sixteen years, in 1976, Diego entered the field as a participant in Archentynos Junior, and in November of the same year he scored his first serious goal in his career. In his first adult team, the football player played as many as five seasons, after which in 1981 he passed under the contract to another Argentine club - "Boca Junior". In the same year, "Boca" became an Argentine champion, defeating in August in the Metropolitan tournament.
FC "Barcelona"
The Spanish "Barcelona" in the summer of 1982 acquired Diego Maradona for seven and a half million dollars, setting a kind of transfers. However, due to injury, the football player missed a greater number of Barcelona matches. But still in 1983, he participated in significant matches - the Super Cup and the Cup of Spain, as well as the Spanish League Cup, where his team became the leader not without the help of Diego.In total, in Spain, the football player played two seasons and a total of 38 heads scored, taking part in 58 matches. Although later Diego himself called this period not the best in his career, but the survey conducted among the Spaniards in 1999 left behind Maradona the leading place of the best player of the club "Barcelona" after Johan Kreyfa and Ladislava Cubala. Therefore, to call the Spanish period Maradona failure.
At this time, it was challenged: hepatitis, injuries, as well as conflicts with the club leader. After another quarrel, which arose between the emotional Diego and the President of the Club, the footballer even wanted to buy his contract and leave the team. But the Italian "Napoli" came out on the arena in time.
Career flourishing
The transition of Maradona in Napoli again stirred the public, marking an even more transferred transfer - already ten million dollars! During his presentation, more than seventy thousand spectators attended the stadium, who immediately made Maradona with their idol.
Embed from getty imagesIt is this period that is considered the most important in the career of a football player. The best goals were clogged in this club. Results of seven seasons in Napoli:
- Two "Scudotto" won - an unprecedented case that did not repeat more;
- Championship in the UEFA Cup;
- Third and second place in the Cup and Super Cup of Italy;
- Diego became the best scorers in the history of "Napoli".
However, in March 1991, a positive doping test, which was taken from Maradona, was the reason for the removal of the football player from the game for fifteen months. He did not return to "Napoli" after the end of the term of disqualification, and moved to the Spanish "Seville". But there he won just one season and after the conflict with the coach, left the club.
Next, Argentine played for Newells Old Boys, spending only five matches for this club. But the Maradon, famous for his explosive character, did not yet find a common language with the coach Jorge Castillo and was forced to leave the team. After the impostor firing from the pneumatic rifle on journalists, which guarded at his house, Diego and went to a prison opinion, in connection with which, could not participate in football.
Boca Juniors and Career Completion
After the one and a half year's break, Maradona returned to Big Football. He spent about thirty matches as part of "Boki" and returned the favor of his admirers thanks to several extremely successful matches.Unfortunately, the next doping control led to a new disqualification. In the blood of Diego discovered cocaine and doping. After this disqualification, Maradona was briefly returned to football, but the injury obtained led him to the need to finish their career.
A few days before his 37th anniversary, in 1997, Diego Armando Maradona last went on a football field as a player.
"God's hand"
This nickname attached for Maradona after the legendary match with the British, where Diego scored the ball with his hand in his eyes in a crowd. This mistake noticed everything except the judge who counted the controversial goal.
That championship will never forget the entire football world, especially the fans of Argentina. After all, then they became world champions. Maradona justified his act, saying that it was not his hand, but "the hand of God himself." Since then, "the hand of God" became the name of the nominal and firmly "risk" to Diego.
Technique Maradona
The technique of the game Maradona was distinguished uncharacteristic for football techniques: riding a ball at high speed, uplinking, throwing the ball, the ability to break the opponent. Thanks to the Diego skills received in childhood, had an accurate pass and a clear blow from the left foot and from the penalty. His ability to beat from any provisions, score balls head, to perform various fins made it a unique and unique technique.A good vision of the field allowed him to do naked passes. The struggle is his element, because even if he lured the ball, he still did not leave the opponent alone until the ball returned to its territory. The coordination of movements allowed him to easily maneuver among opponents and retain balance if necessary.
Many experts believe that thanks to the game Maradona, the team in which he played was able to reach a completely new level of football.
Career coaching
Maradona began his coaching career long before the official end of the football period in life. During his disqualification in 1994, which was distributed only to football players, he decided to try himself at the coaching field.
Embed from getty imagesThe little-known club "Deportivo Mandonda will become his debut as a mentor. But this experience will quickly end after Diego's fight with one of the club owners. Diego Maradona coached Rosing for one season, but this activity did not bring any special results.
Despite the first favored results, Maradon still became the coach of the Argentine national team in 2008. He stayed in this post only two years, but managed to declare himself as a worthy mentor. Although the Argentines and did not win the World Cup 2010, where they defeated the Germans with a score of 0: 4, Maradona still remained satisfied with the game of his wards.
After the championship, the Football Association of Argentina decided not to extend the contract with Maradona.
After an annual break in the work, Maradon was offered to train the Al Vasl club from the Arab Emirates. This club has not achieved serious achievements, but often appeared in various scandals. Because of his explosive nature, Maradona was ahead of time to leave the post of coach of the Al Vasl Club.
Later he headed the clubs Al-Fujairah, "Dudos de Sinaloa", was the chairman of the Board of the Brest "Dynamo", Argentians "Himnasius and Esgrim" coached. This club has become the last place of work Maradona. In November 2019 he resigned, but after a few days later changed his decision. Season 2019-2020 was prematurely completed due to the coronavirus pandemic, but in the summer of 2020, Diego signed his last contract with Himnasia, extended December 2021.
Hobbies and hobbies
Plastic and accuracy of movements, as well as excellent coordination allowed Maradona well to express themselves on a dance field. The dance program, which the Italian RAI channel was broadcast, became his debut as a dancer. However, due to difficulties with the Italian authorities, he refused to further participate in the program.In 2000, the legendary football player wrote the book of the autobiographic nature of "I - Diego". Two years later, Diego released a disk with the hit "Hand of God". By the way, all income from the disc was listed in the Argentine hospital for disadvantaged children.
The famous Serbian director Emir Kusturica removed the film "Maradona" in 2008. With this work, a cult director wanted to explain the phenomenon of Diego Armando from the artistic side.
Embed from getty imagesDiego has always been known for his sympathy to such leaders like Hugo Chavez, Nestor Kirschner, Fidel Castro - political leaders of the left regiment. He even had tattoos Che Guevara on the right shoulder and Fidel on the leg. He called himself "from the people" himself.
Such positions unequivocally played him in her hand if he wanted to claim a high political post. However, the reputation of an emotional and aggressive player both on political and on the playing field will always oppose him.
Many were difficult to imagine impulsive and restless Maradona in the official chair, sching paper. Therefore, his candidacy has always been noted as symbolic in political ring.
Drugs and Health Problems
An unpleasant narcotic train stretching for Maradona since his games in Barcelona, caused his health problems. Then he explained this addiction to the opportunity to join the unfamiliar situation and feel comfortable in it. Subsequently, the football player has tried more than once to get rid of the harmful addiction in the clinics of Argentina and Cuba.
In 2000, Maradona had a hypertonic crisis due to heart arrhythmia. Then the people close to Diego denied the connection of such an event with the drug addiction of the football player, saying that crisis happened due to problems with the heart and nervous overvoltage. After the end of treatment, the Diego clinic went to the island of freedom, where a rehabilitation course was held in a closed medical institution.
Cardiac attack Hip Maradonu in April 2004. Problems with overweight, and not defeated drug addiction has caused this sad event. After leaving the Diego hospital weighed as much as 120 kg. In the photo of those years before fans, the person appears complete before the disgrace, in which it is difficult to identify the once-faschable football player. With a relatively small height (165 cm), this weight looked critical.
But he managed to take himself in hand and after surgery to reduce the stomach and a special diet he dropped 50 kg.
In 2004, the legend of football stated that he got rid of the drug addiction for the sake of his daughters. Apparently, he succeeded, but in 2007 he fell into the clinic already about the inxication of the body with alcoholic beverages. Then his liver was in a critical, precrimal state. But this time he managed to dig and get out of the unpleasant situation with minimal losses.
Scandals
This bright football leader was famous for loud scandals no less than her game.The loudest scandals with the participation of Diego:
- "God's Hand" - this, perhaps the most loud scandal in the history of football, occurred in 1986 at the Mexico City Championship. After 22 years, he repentedly in his hand scored and apologized for this act. By the way, the goal was counted the judge.
- Fights - the Final Cup of Italy was marked by a real sporting partious way, in which all players were participating on both teams, Diego, including. Then he was disqualified for three months.
- Drugs - during doping controls, it was doubled during the use of prohibited substances. For the second time in the blood, traces of several (about five) components of various narcotic compounds were found in the blood.
- Shooting in journalists - paparazzi, who was on duty at his windows, became victims of shooting from a pneumatic rifle. All four journalists received light injured, and Diego - two years in prison.
Relations with journalists at Maradona were special - he repeatedly fought with them, broke the windows in the car or destroyed the equipment. 2006 was generally marked for Maradona several scandals: he was accused of tax evasion, the organization of autoavaria, which caused the injury to several people.
Also Maradona broke his head to the girl, who hooked something in conversation of his daughter. As a result, the victims left ten seams, and Diego was responsible for the deeds in court.
TV
No matter how difficult Maradoni relationships with a journalistic brother, he himself put several times for their luck. After the end of his footballer's career, he began to act as a sports expert in specialized programs or as a commentator competition. Diego repeatedly commented on the World Cup matches in 2002, and in 2006 he commented on the matches of the World Cup in Germany.
Embed from getty imagesMaradona managed to visit the leading popular Argentine program "Night Tens" in 2005. Within this program, he interviewed world-famous people (Mike Tyson, Fidel Castro, Anatoly Karpov). In 2005, this program won the Best Entertainment Prize, making Maradona a person of the year for her version.
Personal life
Officially, Diego was married only once on Claudia Villafane, living with her 25 years. Young Diego was only seventeen years old when he decided to invite a neighbor girl Claudia on dance. A few days later he had already presented her to parents.However, they got married not immediately, Maradona made Claudia's proposal only after the birth of the second child (daughter) in 1989. The first daughter was born a year earlier. The wedding took place at the Luna Park Stadium in Buenos Aires and stood as much as two million dollars. Guests who came to congratulate the newlyweds, there were about more than one and a half thousand.
After ten years of the family life, Maradona left home, and five years later Claudia filed for divorce. However, despite this, the pair managed to save good, friendly relationships until recently. The former wife even performed some period as an ex-football player agent.
The personal life of the legendary scorer has always been no less interesting than its play activities. After the divorce, Maradona met with a teacher of physical education Veronica Oving, who gave her son to him. Diego admitted him only a month later and broke up with Veronica.
Embed from getty imagesLegends went about numerous stormy novels of the football player in the days of Barcelona. He was accused of awareness of the Argentine Prostitutes in Italy. The holder of the brothel allegedly engaged in the supply of live goods with Diego. Among the environment of the footballer there were such personalities that claimed that during her stay in Naples he had five mistresses per day! But all this information remained at the rumor level, in no way confirming and without refuting the football player himself.
Last years, Maradona's heart was employed by the young model Rosio Olive. He even decided on her plastic surgery to look at her background younger. However, before the wedding, it has not yet come.
Until today, Claudia Villagehana was the only official wife of the football legend.
In official marriage with Claudia, Diego born two daughters of the weather - Zhanin and Dorma. But it is believed that maradona has only five children. From Valeria Sabalain, Diego has a daughter who was born in 1996. But the football player did not want to voluntarily recognize his paternity, but DNA examination put everything in his places, and he was forced to pay an alimony daughter. The extramarital son from Veronica Uhedo was also recognized as Diego not immediately. Diego Maradona Jr. was born back in 1986. But only after 29 years, Maradona dared to meet her son. He recognized him officially and noted the striking similarity to him.
Claudia Villagean in 2016 decided to submit on Maradon to the court due to newly discovered circumstances related to its extramarital children. The lawyer of ex-wife Bombarer assured that his client had undergone a lot of suffering because of the change of Diego. In addition, it became known that another fifteen-year-old guy claims the title of Maradona's son.
Death
On November 25, 2020, Diego Maradona died on the 61st year of life. The death of the famous athlete reported on Wednesday the Argentine edition of Clarin. According to preliminary information, Maradona passed away after stopping the heart.
In October he had hemorrhage to the brain. Doctors decided to discharge on November 11. Then, according to media reports, Maradona was sent to a private clinic to get rid of alcohol addiction. The last time he seemed in public on October 30, at the match of his team.
A few days later, it became known that the authorities of Argentina began investigating the incident: according to media information, law enforcement officers had reason to suspect Maradona's doctor in negligence and unpetual murder. Verification of all circumstances is underway. Medica Leopoldo himself, he treated his football player, said that he was not guilty and was ready to fully cooperate with the investigation.
Achievements
- 1979, 1980, 1981 - Footballer of the Year in Argentina
- 1979, 1980 - Football Player of the Year in South America
- 1981 - Champion of Argentina with "Boca Juniors"
- 1982/83 - Winner of the Cup of Spain with Barcelona
- 1985 - Football Player in Italy
- 1986 - World Champion with Argentina national team
- 1986 - Best World Championship Player
- 1986, 1987 - The best football player of Europe
- 1986 - the best football player of the world
- 1986/87, 1989/90 - Champion Italy with Napoli
- 1986/87 - the winner of the ITALY Cup with "Napoli"
- 1988/89 - Winner of the UEFA Cup with "Napoli"
- 1990 - Silver winner of the World Championship with Argentina
- 1993 - the best Argentine footballer of all time
- 1999 - the author of the best goal in the history of football
- 1999 - the best athlete of the XX century according to Clarín
- 2000 - century player according to FIFA