Diego Armando Maradona: He played better football than he inherited.
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The Argentine was brilliant on the field but poor in transmission. He did not leave a will, but left at least eight children by five women.
Ob he is the greatest footballer of all time, ahead of Pelé, Beckenbauer, Zidane or even Ronaldo? Arguing about it would be pointless, because Diego Armando Maradona is considered the “hand of God” around the world. He is unique. In his native Argentina he is even more, simply: “Dios”, God. Even in Naples, where he celebrated his greatest successes in club football, he is still revered as a saint.
That he irregularly scored the most important of his 34 goals in the national jersey in the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup game: forget it. After all, the Almighty guided the hand of the football god. The second, the winning goal against England, was scored by “El Pibe de Oro” (The Golden Boy) all by himself after a legendary dribbling over 60 meters.