Buenos Aires (AFP) – Argentina great Diego Maradona has criticised Lionel Messi, suggesting that the Barcelona star's retirement from international football, and subsequent change of heart, was "staged". "I don't know whether this was staged to make us understand that he'd lost three finals, but we never lost by big margins," said Maradona to radio […]

Buenos Aires (AFP) – Diego Maradona has hailed the new Argentina coach Edgardo "Paton" Bauza as a man with a record of sacrificing everything for national glory. Bauza, 58, was appointed Argentina coach on Monday after the departure of Gerardo Martino, who left after disappointing defeats in the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Copa America […]

Buenos Aires (AFP) – Diego Maradona's larger-than-life exploits are coming to the small screen, producers said Thursday, announcing the Argentine football legend will be the subject of a new TV series targeting international audiences. "Every month of my life could make 100 episodes. Everything I've lived surpasses any kind of fiction," Maradona said in a […]

Buenos Aires (AFP) – Argentine football was in crisis Wednesday after the national coach followed star striker Lionel Messi in quitting weeks before the Olympics, with legend Diego Maradona eyeing a return to a role with the squad. The country's President Mauricio Macri himself slammed the way the sport was being run by the Argentine […]

Buenos Aires (AFP) – Argentine football legend Diego Maradona on Monday urged Lionel Messi not to follow through on his vow to quit the national team after its defeat in the Copa America Centenario. "Messi has to stay in the national team... He will go to Russia in form to be world champion" at the 2018 […]

Buenos Aires (AFP) – Argentina football legend Diego Maradona told his national team not to bother coming back home if they don't win the Copa America Centenario on Sunday. "We will certainly win on Sunday... and if we don't win, they shouldn't come back," Maradona, 55, told Argentina television channel C5N. The retired star was […]

Buenos Aires (AFP) – Diego Maradona and former England goalkeeper Peter Shilton reignited on Wednesday their long-running feud, on the 30th anniversary of the Argentine's infamous "Hand of God" World Cup goal. Maradona, one of the finest footballers to play the game, scored twice in Argentina's 2-1 victory over England in front of 115,000 fans […]

Buenos Aires (AFP) – It was a day to live in footballing infamy, a day when the two contrasting sides of Diego Maradona were displayed to the world in the space of four breathtaking minutes at Mexico City's Azteca Stadium.  Thirty years after Maradona's "Hand of God" goal against England at the 1986 World Cup […]

Buenos Aires (AFP) – Former World Cup winner and national coach Diego Maradona said Wednesday he had no magic wand to solve Argentina's football crisis but agreed to help organise talks to that end. FIFA president Gianni Infantino had called upon Maradona on Monday to help negotiate deadlocked talks over the future of Argentina's league, […]

Zurich (AFP) – Diego Maradona has offered to support new FIFA chief Gianni Infantino's bid to improve the running of football in Argentina. Speaking upon his arrival in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, the Argentine legend said: "I'm not going to be a FIFA observer, I'm coming to collaborate directly with Gianni Infantino. "I'm not going […]

Paris (AFP) – Diego Maradona hailed his old rival Pele as an "icon" as the pair were reunited for a "match of friendship" on Thursday. The 75-year-old Brazil great and 55-year-old Argentine legend even embraced during the five-a-side exhibition game in a sign that they have drawn a line under their long-running feud. "I want […]

The Argentine television program "Nosotros al Mediodia" has shown a video which appears to show legendary footballer Diego Maradona hitting his ex-girlfriend Rocio Oliva. Oliva secretly filmed the episode which shows the former Argentina international shouting at her for using her mobile phone and then apparently hitting out at her twice. The Spanish newspaper El […]

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