Diego Armando Maradona Career

Diego Armando Maradona is the legendary Argentine football player. Maradona was born on October 30, 1960 in Lanús, but spent his childhood in Villa Fiorito. He is the 4th child of 6 siblings.
Maradona to coach Argentina national team from November 2008 to July 2010 For Argentina Maradona appeared 91 times and scored 34 goals. Maradona was included in a row the best footballer of the century along with Pele, Johan Cruyff and Christian Vieri.

Early Career.
At the age of 10 years old football talent was discovered by talent scouts Agentinos Juniors club.
2 years later he became the club mascot named Los Cebollitas (small onion), in which he served to entertain the audience with his football skills competition at halftime at a major division of Argentina, Argentinos Juniors. His talent wafted up to the English club Sheffield United when trying to transfer it for 180,000 pounds. The proposal was later rejected by Argentinos Juniors. A year later, he made his international debut with the national team of Argentina. In 1981, he bought the club Boca Juniors for 1 million pounds, where he became league champions for the first time.

International Career.
Maradona made his debut with Argentina at the age of 16 years against Hungary on February 27, 1977 At the age of 18 years Maradona participated in the Junior World Cup held in Japan, where Argentina was faced with Indonesia with the result 5-0.
Maradona scored 2 goals with Ramón Díaz who scored a hat trick.

Club Career.

Barcelona FC.
After the 1982 World Cup, he then transferred to FC Barcelona at a price of 5 million pound sterling, which is a world record at that time. There César Luis Menotti with the coach, Maradona won the Copa del Rey, beating arch-rivals FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, and the Spanish Super Cup, beating Athletic de Bilbao. His career at FC Barcelona having some problems, then a severe ankle injury due to a hard tackle by Athletic de Bilbao, Andoni Goikoetxea which nearly ended his career in the world of football. In addition, he also often at odds with Josep Lluís Núñez Presidential club.

Napoli.
Maradona then transferred to SSC Napoli in 1984 and reached the peak of his career in football where he brought the team into Serie A for the first time in the history of Napoli (1986/87 and then 1989/1990). And was runner-up Serie A in 1987/88 and 1988/89. In addition, he also helped Napoli won the Italian Cup in 1987 A year later (88/89 season), Napoli beat VfB Stuttgart to become the UEFA Cup. Maradona also became the top scorer in the Italian League Serie A with 15 goals.

Maradona also won the award Guerin d'Oro as a player with the best rating according to the Italian magazine Guerin Sportivo. Maradona also appeared in a testimonial for Osvaldo Ardilles event in a match between Tottenham against Inter Milan in which the final score 2-1 to Spurs victory.
In that match Glenn Hoddle gave up his number 10 jersey to be worn by Maradona. But behind the brilliance, even in Italy Maradona worse off in a black world. His career then decreases after that.
After he became a coach for Deportivo Mandiyú (1994) and Racing Club (1995) and tried to resume playing career with Boca Juniors between 1995 and 1997, he finally retired on October 30, 1997.

FIFA World Cup Career.

World Cup 1982.
Maradona made his debut in the World Cup stage at the 1982 World Cup preliminary round are defending champions Argentina who surprisingly lost 0-1 by Belgium, Argentina nevertheless managed to advance to the second round of the tournament after beating Hungary 4-1 and El Salvador 2-0 .
In the next round they again suffered defeat by Italy 1-2 and Brazil 1-3. Maradona appeared in all matches in the World Cup and scored two goals, scored in a game against Hungary.

World Cup 1986.
Shows the greatness of Maradona who was appointed {} is the team captain during the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, where almost alone he leads Argentina out as World Champion for the second time, after the first in 1978 in Argentina.
At the World Cup in Mexico, Maradona makes the best goal of all time FIFA ie when Argentina met England in the quarter-finals. At that time Maradona doing sprints while carrying the ball from midfield, then passing 5 English players (Glenn Hoddle, Peter Beardsley, Steve Hodge, Peter Reid, Terry Butcher) and conquered the famous English goalkeeper, Peter Shilton.
Maradona was all done in just a span of approximately 10 seconds. Unfortunately, at the party anyway, Maradona made a very bad goal. Goals are created through the help of a hand, which is said to be as a result of assistance Maradona "hand of God".
He finally admitted that it was done on purpose on August 22, 2005 Total Maradona scored 5 goals and 5 assists and was never replaced during the match Argentina in the 1986 World Cup as a form of respect, then erected a statue of Maradona scored a goal while at the front entrance Azteca Stadium stadium.

World Cup 1990.
At the next World Cup in 1990 in Italy, Maradona returned mengkapteni Argentina. But Maradona appearance less than the maximum because a knee injury before the tournament begins.
Argentina began its journey in the tournament with less convincing, almost eliminated in the early rounds and only ranked third in the Group B. Argentina Brazil later met his nemesis. When is forecast to suffer defeat, Maradona appeared as a hero by sending feedback to be completed by Claudio Caniggia. Argentina also won 1-0 over Brazil.

The next round of Argentina met with Yugoslavia where the match is completed through a penalty shoot-out. Maradona is one of the kicker penalty that failed. Semi-final against Italy was also resolved through a penalty shoot-out after a 1-1 score for 2x45 minutes. This time Maradona had netted a penalty after bravely kicking the ball in the same direction when he failed against Yugoslavia.
In the final match has been waiting for the then West Germany beat Argentina 1-0 with a penalty by Andreas Brehme scored in the 85th minute, after a breach to the West German striker Rudi Völler.

World Cup 1994.

Maradona appeared again as captain for Argentina but only appeared 2 times and scored 1 goal against Greece.
1994 World Cup took place in a country that arguably not a football country, the United States (U.S). Brazil became champions after beating Italy on penalties with the score 3-2, after playing to a goalless in the normal and extra time.