Maradona, as has been widely documented, was flawed, but perhaps people saw some of themselves in those imperfections. Born in the poor Villa Fiorito area of Buenos Aires, he raised himself out of ...

BUENOS AIRES — Diego Armando Maradona, the most transcendent soccer player of his generation, perhaps of all time, lived a chaotic, tabloid-ready life. He fought drug and alcohol addiction ...

Maradona would have turned 64 on Oct. 30 An Argentine court in San Isidro, on the northern outskirts of Buenos Aires, has allowed the body of former footballing virtuoso Diego Maradona to be ...

BUENOS AIRES — For a moment, life in Argentina stopped. Diego Maradona, perhaps the greatest soccer player ever, was dead. Thousands poured into the streets of this South American capital ...

Maradona, who led Argentina to the World Cup title in 1986, died on Nov. 25, 2020 while undergoing home care on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, days after undergoing surgery for a hematoma that ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine ...

Sports Diego Maradona promises to run naked in Buenos Aires if Argentina wins World Cup Updated: May. 26, 2010, 5:41 p.m. | Published: May. 26, 2010, 4:41 p.m. By Associated Press sports staff ...

For many Argentines, Diego Maradona, who died on Wednesday, was no mere soccer superstar. “I feel like a member of my family just died,” said one. By Daniel Politi BUENOS AIRES — People laid ...

Players from the Argentine soccer team Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata pay their respects to Diego Maradona at the burning chapel in Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires on Nov. 26, 2020.

Maradona, 60, died of a heart attack on Wednesday at his home on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where he was recovering from recent brain surgery. After his playing career ended, his life was ...

Diego Maradona is helping in the fight against coronavirus in his home city by autographing a replica of the Argentina jersey he wore in the country’s 1986 World Cup final triumph to raise money ...

Diego Armando Maradona, who rose from the slums of Buenos Aires to lead Argentina's national team to victory in the 1986 World Cup, lost his way through substance abuse and then pursued a second ...