Thursday, August 18, 2011

Diego Maradona Biography

Full name              :  Diego Armando Maradona

Date of birth          :  30 October 1960 (age 50)

Place of birth        :  Lanus, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Height                    :  1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)

Playing position    :  Attacking Midfielder Second Striker

Youth career          :  1975 Argentinos Juniors

National team       :  1977–1994 Argentina

Club career Argentinos Juniors in 1976, Boca Juniors in 1981, FC Barcelona in 1982, Napoli in 1985, Sevilla, Newell's Old Boys in 1993, Boca Juniors in 1995.

Personal life for a Diego Maradona Snr and Dalma Salvadore Franco are parents and his father is of Native American extraction for his maternal great-grandfather Mateo Kariolic was born in Korcula, Dalmatia, today's Croatia for a possibly then in the Austrian Empire, and emigrated to Argentina, where Maradona's grandmother Salvadora was born and the citation needed Salvadora named her daughter Dalma after the Croatian region, after whom Maradona named his eldest daughter.

Maradona married long time fiancee Claudia Villafane on 7 November 1989 in Buenos Aires, after the birth of their daughters, Dalma Nerea is born on 2 April 1987 and Giannina Dinorah is born on 16 May 1989 and Maradona and Villafane divorced in 2004.

Drug abuse and health issues from the mid-1980s until 2004 Diego Maradona was addicted to cocaine and he allegedly began using the drug in Barcelona in 1983.

International career for a Diego Maradona international debut at age 16 against Hungary on 27 February 1977 and age 18 he played the World Youth Championship for Argentina and was the star of the tournament and he is the only player to win the Golden Ball at both the FIFA U-20 World Cup and FIFA World Cup, in 1979 and 1986.

Maradona played his 1st World Cup tournament in 1982 and 1986 World Cup Maradona captained the Argentine national team to victory in the 1986 FIFA World Cup, 1990 World Cup Maradona captained Argentina again in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, 1994 FIFA World Cup Maradona played in only two games scoring one goal and after retiring from playing on his 37th birthday in 1997.

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