The Forever Hand Of God: Maradona
Another greatest fallen hero, once an amazing machete striker from the 1960 fall last year due to with drug abuse. It is sad in a way abused drugs causing harm to a person body but as a street ghetto, he for sure touched the sky on that night. He is the man of trust, he choosesfollowers who can work at very undesirable hour and loyal over a period of time, your good to go, on probation!
Biography
Village of Lanus, buenos Aires, Argentina from October 30, 1960s. He grew up tight household but very close to their family. After he got the first gift football from their dad, Diego Senior and Dona Tota, since he was 3 years old. So, all he does is play and discover his own venture on how to play the game, shots, and scores.
Rising Star
He was just 10-year-old joined Los Cebollitas, youth team for Argentina Juniors. He over exceeded everyone led Los Cebollitas to 136th game UNBEATEN STREAK. They have DONE IT, like the Italian team 2021. He go to the next level senior at just 16, someone like Christiano Ronaldo, maybe that’s where CR7 got believes from.
His first-year coach decided not to include him to Junior World Cup championship, the next year, he surprised his coach and the team with a trophy under-20. He got another one again a championship in 1981 under Boca Juniors, a pro junior athlete club in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
That’s where his name starting to rise to FC Barcelona in 1982, Won huge Spanish Cup. SSC Napoli (1984-91), another one World Cup at 1986 and then late 1990. At year 1986, crowd named him “Hand of God” because he used hand to score his first goal with hand, referee thought it was head goal, rewarded with his first score against England. Those days they do not even have the camera or VAR inspection. So referee rely among each other and not media photo or camera. That’s a SWEET LUCKY goal from “Hand of god”.
That’s where all the drinking, partying and drugs start to happen. Finally, he got suspended of 15 months from playing in the team because he got busted possession of cocaine. Somehow, he then jump ship to play for Sevilla in Spain and Newell’s Old boys in Argentina. So later in 1995 he is back to Boca Juniors and played till 25 October 1997 with no Cups win. Then that’s where his coaching days begins.
Climax
Cheeky and deadly machete midfielder saga continues as he plays for lower class Argentina, southern Italy, which lead Napoli to next level northern clubs. He gave in 490 official club games, scoring 259 goals from 21 years for professional footballer. The Federation Internationale de Football Association named him the top player of the 20th century.
Somehow, he has the deal to be a head coach of Argentine national team in 2008 and achievement was led Argentina to quarterfinals of 2010 World Cup, sadly after no other progress then his contract terminated. Giant from United Arab Emirates hired him to be their national coach, somehow struggled there and fired after. Seems like he was only meant to be player than football coach. So, he worked for several other clubs before become coach of Mexico’s Dorados de Sinaloa in 2018. His machete adventure continues till fall at 2010. Thank you for eye catching games back in 90’s.
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