Diego Maradona dedicated victory to the mothers of Argentina after his team Al Wasl made a winning start to their league season with a 3-0 win over Sharjah on Sunday.
Argentina coach Diego Maradona will see a familiar foe in the opposing dugout when his side face South Korea in their second Group B match at Soccer City on Thursday.
Soccer legend Diego Maradona on Saturday refused to be drawn into any debate over who is the greatest, Pele or himself, with the Argentine jocularly saying that he's the best ever as his mother Armando used to think the same way.
The former Argentina football ace says now he no longer lives for the night.
Diego Maradona loses cool again. This time the Argentine football great has been accused by a celebrity magazine photographer of kicking him in the groin.
If Argentina's line-up of soccer superstars had been in any doubt, they will not be now -- on the World Cup stage nothing grabs the cameras quite like Diego Maradona.
A clean-shaven, suit-wearing Diego Maradona vowed to get fit and stay healthy on Monday night, in his first public appearance since he was hospitalized for alcohol-induced hepatitis.
Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona is making good progress in a Buenos Aires hospital where he is being treated for alcohol-induced hepatitis caused by two or three months of heavy drinking, doctors said on Tuesday.
Legendary Diego Maradona cast a spell on football crazy fans of Kerala, entertaining them with some magical moves with the ball, including his left-footed manoeuvres and headers, at the jam-packed Municipal Jawahar stadium.
Diego Maradona said he admired Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for his left-wing political policies
Argentine football legend Diego Maradona slammed FIFA after claiming seven of Costa Rica's players were subjected to post-match doping controls over fears sponsors would not pay up if bigger teams like Italy failed to get out of the group stage at the World Cup finals.
An estimated 10,000 Napoli supporters, including the team's most famous player Diego Maradona, are expected to make the trip to the Spanish capital for the first competitive meeting with Real Madrid since the 1987.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
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Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo has the potential to become as great a player as Pele or Diego Maradona, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson said on Saturday. Ferguson's lavish praise comes during the latest war of words between United and Spanish giants Real Madrid over the future of the Ballon d'Or winner.
Diego Maradona will root for his beloved Argentina from his hotel when they play Nigeria on Wednesday, opting to skip the stadium after the country's Football Association president suggested he had jinxed the team against Iran.
Iraq football association has promoted Hakeem Shakir to the head coach's post, ending speculations of a possible appointment of Diego Maradona for the job.
Croatia's euphoric media ran out of superlatives as they hailed the Balkan nation's stunning World Cup win over Argentina which propelled them into the competition's knockout stages for the first time since the 1998 tournament when they finished third.
Argentina's coach Diego Maradona launched into a heartfelt defence of his players who have won their three matches in the group, including Tuesday's 2-0 win against Greece with a largely reserve side.
'I would just be kind to all my players and if there were ever mistakes, I would find a way to hide it.'
He joined a chorus of protest after an Argentine soccer player was arrested by Brazilian police for allegedly racially abusing an opponent.
For Diego Maradona's Argentine squad, sex is fine as long as it is not 2 am and accompanied by a bottle of bubbly.
Brazilian World Cup winner Ronaldinho will visit to Kolkata in October.
Emiliano Martinez said he had always wanted to come to India.
Brazilian football legend Ronaldinho on Sunday arrived in Kolkata on a two-day visit.
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The musuem contains kit and objects used by the 42-year-old during his career, photos of some of his finest moments and videos of some of his worst.
The Argentine forward's glittering resume has one major omission -- a World Cup winner's medal.
With immense pressure on him to match the late great Diego Maradona and send the trophy back to Buenos Aires, Lionel Messi has lit up the Qatar tournament while others in the superstar stratum - Neymar, Cristiano Ronaldo - have underwhelmed and gone home.
IMAGES from the UEFA Champions League matches played on Wednesday
A veritable goldmine of soccer talent was on display at Ellis Park on Saturday but throughout Argentina's defeat of Nigeria a roly-poly, bearded bundle of arm-waving anxiety threatened to steal the show.
Wednesday's impressive, albeit unexciting 1-0 friendly win away to Germany showed Argentina coach Diego Maradona's team is at last taking shape.
Argentina coach Diego Maradona was the mastermind behind the goal that gave them a 1-0 World Cup win over Nigeria, midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron said.
Argentina coach Diego Maradona could be banned for several matches and fined for an obscenity-filled outburst at a news conference after Wednesday's World Cup qualifying win over Uruguay. According to article 58 of FIFA's disciplinary code, the sanction could be for a minimum of five matches, prohibit Maradona stadium access for the duration of the suspension and include a fine of at least 20,000 Swiss francs.
Diego Maradona blasted FIFA's ban on Uruguay striker Luis Suarez as "criminal" and said world soccer's governing body might as well handcuff the striker and lock him up in Guantanamo prison.
Franz Beckenbauer was for decades synonymous with Germany's success on the pitch, as player and then coach.
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