maradona biographie

Diego Armando Maradona, born October 30, 1960 (1960-10-30) (age 50) in Lanús (Buenos Aires province), is a former Argentine footballer became coach. He moved to the position of attacking midfielder in the jersey number 10.
Nicknamed El Pibe de Oro ("The golden boy"), Pelusa, El Diez, Dieguito, or The Master, it is considered one of the greatest players in football history [2].
Player prodigy of the 1980s and 1990s, winning the World Cup Soccer 1986, he was also one of the most controversial sport and society because of his unsavory relationships at that time, two controls positive in 1991 in Italy and in 1994 during the American world and his addiction to cocaine, which greatly disrupted his playing career.
October 28, 2008, he was named coach of the Argentina national team. After the 2010 World Cup in which Argentina tilts heavily against Germany in the quarterfinals (0-4), his contract as coach was not renewed.
Born in Lanús, Diego Maradona was the fourth child and first son of a poor family originating from the Argentine province of Corrientes. It also has two brothers younger than him (Hugo and Eduardo who will also become footballers). At 11, he was noticed by a recruiter, Francis Cornejo, who joined the team of Cebollitas (small onions), the junior team of the club Argentinos Juniors. Very handy with a ball, he entertains the audience with his juggling half-time matches in the first division. Despite his young age he is already attracting the media by his talent and amazing crowds. The newspapers are going to see the phenomenon as well as television. Thus, at 12, he told a TV interviewer came: "I have two dreams, playing in a World Cup, and won with Argentina."
Ten days before her sixteenth birthday, he made his professional debut with the team of Argentinos Juniors. He quickly became the leader of the team, making Argentinos Juniors, a club under the table, one of the leading lights of the championship. It will not win any title, however, with his first team, scoring 115 goals still in 166 matches.
His talent is such that it honors its first national team selection by February 27, 1977, at 16, for a match against Hungary. Cesar Luis Menotti, the coach, do not argue, however, retain the World Cup Soccer 1978, considering it too young. But the coach will catch up one year later by naming him captain in charge of Argentina to win the Junior World Cup hopes. The trophy is acquired in the final against the USSR, beaten 3-1. Maradona is voted best player of the tournament and won the same year the Golden Ball Argentina.
In 1981, the Boca Juniors team spends a fortune to remove the prodigy Argentinos. Maradona only play two seasons for the blue and gold of Buenos Aires, but they were surely among the most significant of his career. He won the championship course, but also humiliates the rival legendary Boca, River Plate, scoring two goals in the victory, and being heavily involved in the third. During this season, he scored 28 goals in 40 games.