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Diego Armando Maradona
The death of Diego Maradona in November 2020 shocked the football world but he left behind a unique legacy following a playing career packed with amazing moments on the pitch and controversy off it. Award-winning football journalist Harry Harris gives his personal perspective on Maradona's life story as one of only a few British writers to have been granted access to arguably the world's greatest ever player. He is helped by World Cup winner Ossie Ardiles who was a close friend of Diego's for most of his life having first seen the boy wonder at close quarters performing football tricks in the warm-up at an international match in 1975 before Diego became a regular in the Argentina side. Harry...
El Diego
Diego Armando Maradona: hero or villain?One thing is certain: he was the greatest footballer of his generation - and perhaps of all time. A poor boy from a Buenos Aires shanty-town, his genius with a ball took him to the heights of European and world fo
Diego Maradona: The Last Interview
A series of provocative, moving and illuminating interviews with (arguably) the greatest soccer player ever... Diego Armando Maradona’s death on November 25, 2020, at the age of 60, was a death that had been foretold many times. Even when he was alive accounts of his life had a tragic register, of the kid from the slums whose magical talent on the soccer field was squandered by drug addiction. But his death allowed millions of people to ponder both the tragedy and triumph of his life, of a man who was arguably the world’s greatest soccer player, who was also a champion for the world’s poor. Adorned in the talismanic number 10 shirt that Maradona made his own while playing Boca Juniors,...
Maradona
The candid, revealing autobiography of soccer's greatest and most controversial star. “Sometimes I think that my whole life is on film, that my whole life is in print. But it’s not like that. There are things which are only in my heart—that no one knows. At last I have decided to tell everything.”—Diego Maradona A poor boy from a Buenos Aires shanty town, Diego Maradona became a genius with the soccer ball, kicking his way to the heights of South American, European, and world soccer, yet his struggles with the pressures of life inside and outside the game repeatedly threatened to tear him and his legend down. Hero or villain, one thing about Maradona is certain: He was the greatest...
Maradona
MARADONA is the definitive new biography of a true global icon, from world-renowned football writer and journalist Guillem Balagué. Diego Armando Maradona was widely acclaimed as a genius. One of the greatest footballers of all time, he was also one of the most controversial. In an international career with Argentina he earned 91 caps and scored 34 goals and played in four FIFA World Cups. With his unforgettable 'hand of God' goal and unsurpassed second one in the 1986 quarter-final against England, he captained his nation and led them to victory over West Germany in the final in Mexico. His vision, passing, ball control and dribbling skills, and his presence and leadership on the field, of...
Diego Maradona
This is the first book in English to closely examine the life of Diego Maradona from socio-cultural perspectives, exploring how his status as an icon, a popular sporting hero, and a political figurehead has been culturally constructed, reproduced, and manipulated. The volume looks at representations of Maradona across a wide variety of media, including literature, cinema, popular music, printed and online press, and radio, and in different countries around the world, to cast new light on topics such as the instrumentality of sporting heroes and the links among sport, nationalism, and ideology. It shows how the life of Maradona – from his origins in the barrio through to his rise to god-like status in Naples and as a postcolonial symbol of courage and resistance against imperial powers across the global south, alongside scandal and his fall from grace – powerfully illustrates themes such as the dynamics of gender, justice, and affect that underpin the study of sport, culture, and society. This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in football, sport studies, media studies, cultural studies, or sociology.
Diego Armando Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona (Lanús, October 30, 1960-Luján Dam, November 25, 2020) was a soccer player and coach Argentinian. Served asForward or offensive midfielder. Considered one of the best footballers of all time and the best of his generation, is recognized even by numerous specialists,[]Ex-footballers and international personalities such as «best footballer in history».[14]Likewise, he has been classified by some media as the "best player in the history of the World Cup", of which he was designated as the best player in his career. 1986 edition. In the awards to FIFA Player of the Century was selected as the «best footballer of the 20th century»In the popular vote, it obtained the third position in the vote of the experts selected by FIFA and achieved the fifth position in the vote carried out by The International Federation of Football History and Statistics
Touched by God
The story of the most remarkable—and controversial—World Cup triumph in history, told in a long-awaited firsthand account from Diego Maradona, its most legendary player. “This is Diego Armando Maradona speaking, the man who scored two goals against England and one of the few Argentines who knows how much the World Cup actually weighs” In June 1986, Diego Maradona—one of soccer’s greatest and most polarizing figures—proudly hoisted the World Cup above his head. Since then, Argentina’s World Cup victory has become the stuff of legend, particularly their infamous victory over England—only four years after the country’s defeat in the Falklands War—which featured arguably th...
Life and Times of Diego Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona, (conceived October 30, 1960, Lanus, Buenos Aires, Argentina-kicked the bucket November 25, 2020, Tigre, Buenos Aires), Argentine football (soccer) player who is commonly viewed as the top footballer of the 1980s and one of the best ever. Prestigious for his capacity to control the ball and make scoring open doors for himself as well as other people, he drove club groups to titles in Argentina, Italy, and Spain, and he featured on the Argentine public group that won the 1986 World Cup.Superb spilling activity, ground-breaking help, exact passes and amazing footwork made Diego Mardona ascend to the positions, inside a brief period, to turn into the best football player,...
Hand of God
This story moves from the slums of Buenos Aires, where Maradona was born in 1960, to the stadiums of the United States, where he was expelled in 1994 after failing a drug test. In his rise to fame -- and notoriety -- Maradona played for some of the world's greatest teams, leading Argentina to their second World Cup championship in 1986, and captaining Napoli to two Italian league titles. But the pressures of stardom led to a cocaine addiction that caused the charismatic and stormy footballer to womanize, associate with organized crime, and become a pawn in Argentinean political gamesmanship. This examination of a complex sporting genius offers insight into a world of exploitation, corruption, and intrigue.
