The Argentine legend clocked 60 today Friday, Diego Maradona is retired football player and also he is currently the coach of Argentine Primera División club Gimnasia de La Plata
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time. He was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the 20th Century award, he’s been compared to the likes of Pele, Messi and Ronaldo.
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Diego Maradona who was born on the 30th October 1960 to the family of Diego Maradona and Dalma Salvadora, the 5th child and only boy at that time, his parent later gave Maradona 3 younger siblings making them a family of 8.
Maradona who played for his country Argentina and other elite clubs in Europe with the like of Spain and Italy and across the world has a lot of accolades and trophies to his name, both for clubs and individually.
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When Diego clocked 3, his uncle got him a football as a gift and the pair were soon inseparable, he started out with playing ball in the dusty road and wasteland of Fiorito playing with other kids or just seen playing around with the ball all by himself,
On of the beautiful young days of Maradona playing ball with his co kids, what would have been a dreadful day Diego almost got drowned while trying to find his ball in a septic tank, all thanks to his uncle who said him.
He had this to say in his autobiography “One day I was chasing a ball, I would have been younger than 10, and I fell into a septic tank, “I was up to my neck in sh*t, but I didn’t try to get out: I kept looking for the ball and sank further and further in, My uncle saved me by wading waist-deep in the tank, almost up to his head, and stretching his hand out to grab mine.
“If he hadn’t done that I would have died in that septic tank… chasing after a football.”
Maradona started his profession football senior career in 1976 with Argentinos Juniors scoring a whooping 116 goals for the year 1976–1981
He later played for clubs like
Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli, Sevilla, Newell’s Old Boyshe ended his career at Boca Juniors in the year 1997 and started another one in football managing
One of his best moments remains his times at Napoli and in the year 1986 in the city of Mexico where he was instrumental to his country wining the World Cup.
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