The dominant emotion while watching the Asif Kapadia film Diego Maradona was slack-jawed astonishment.
It wasn’t about the details of what was revealed. For my generation, Maradona’s career and afterlife had been followed to obsessive degree, long before the age of the internet. Newspaper articles, magazines found street side or in libraries, later on, a few books. The story arc of Maradona, mesmeric typhoon of the 1986 World Cup to the deranged spectator on the balcony of the St Petersburg…
The dominant emotion while watching the Asif Kapadia film Diego Maradona was slack-jawed astonishment.
It wasn’t about the details of what was revealed. For my generation, Maradona’s career and afterlife had been followed to obsessive degree, long before the age of the internet. Newspaper articles, magazines found street side or in libraries, later on, a few books. The story arc of Maradona, mesmeric typhoon of the 1986 World Cup to the deranged spectator on the balcony of the St Petersburg…
The dominant emotion while watching the Asif Kapadia film Diego Maradona was slack-jawed astonishment.
It wasn’t about the details of what was revealed. For my generation, Maradona’s career and afterlife had been followed to obsessive degree, long before the age of the internet. Newspaper articles, magazines found street side or in libraries, later on, a few books. The story arc of Maradona, mesmeric typhoon of the 1986 World Cup to the deranged spectator on the balcony of the St Petersburg…
Mexican second-division club Dorados de Sinaloa announced on Thursday that Diego Maradona will take over as manager of the club.
Sources confirmed to ESPN Mexico on Wednesday that negotiations between Maradona and the club were taking p…
Mexican second-division club Dorados de Sinaloa have spoken with Diego Maradona about the Argentina legend taking over as the club’s manager, sources tell ESPN Mexico.
According to sources, negotiations between Maradona and the club exist but a previous arrangement between him and Belarus side Dynamo Brest remains a sticking point.
Maradona signed a three-year contract to serve as chairman of Dynamo Brest in July following the World Cup, where his antics at Argentina matches raised eyebrows.
The…
Mexican second-division club Dorados de Sinaloa have spoken with Diego Maradona about the Argentina legend taking over as the manager, sources confirmed to ESPN Mexico.
According to sources, negotiations between Maradona and the club e…
After an eventful evening watching Argentina squeeze past Nigeria in the group stage, Diego Maradona was back in the centre of attention as his beloved Argentina met France in the World Cup’s Round of 16 on Saturday.
Sure enough, Maradona arrived into the Kazan Arena with customary understatement, greeting his adoring public with a beaming smile and arms open wide.
Happy Diego.
Before kickoff, the 57-year-old was presented with a gift by Rustam Minnikhanov, president of the Tatarstan region, although Maradona’s…
Argentina’s legend Diego Maradona wants to know who will play for Albicelestes in Russia.
Former Nigerian international Daniel Amokachi looks back on playing against Diego Maradona in Nigeria’s 1994 WC defeat.
A nine-story mural is just the latest sign of how much former Argentina international Diego Maradona is adored in Naples.
It’s already well known that Diego Maradona is treated like a saint in the city of Naples. But now, he’s receiving his consecration in the form of a mural on the side of a nine-story apartment block in the Teduccio neighbourhood of the Italian city.
The mural depicts the head and shoulders of a modern-day Maradona, his hair greying and cheeks showing a little more depth and colour than during his playing days.
This May marks the 30-year anniversary of when Napoli clinched the first of two Serie…