Maradona

Maradona cleared of tax evasion years after his death

Italy's highest court cleared the late Agentine soccer legend Diego Maradona of tax evasion charges, ending a 30-year-long legal battle between the ex-Napoli striker and revenue authorities.

'Pity Diego's not here' to celebrate Napoli title: Alemao

Retired midfielder Alemao, who won Serie A with Napoli in 1990 alongside late legend Diego Maradona, says he regrets his friend is not alive to celebrate the team's return to glory 33 years later.

Argentine court confirms 8 to face trial over Maradona death

Maradona died in November 2020 aged 60 while recovering from brain surgery for a blood clot, and after decades of battles with cocaine and alcohol addictions

Maradona must be smiling

While the fans of Italian football continue to struggle to convince their peers from the English Premier League and LaLiga about the relevance of Serie A in European footballing hierarchy, it is with a renewed optimism that they can now boast about Napoli – the new entertainers of European football.

Messi greater than Maradona, says Scaloni

Lionel Messi has surpassed Diego Maradona as the greatest player of all time, Argentina's World Cup winning coach Lionel Scaloni has said.

Adios, Pele

It’s impossible to talk about football without mentioning Pele.

Argentina's post-Maradona youth revel in Messi's maiden World Cup win

Argentine Santiago Cutaia, 34, had never felt the elation of his country winning the soccer World Cup before, born two years after late icon Diego Maradona last hoisted the trophy aloft for the Albiceleste in 1986.

Leo Messi, 'Dios' Maradona says hello

Finally, Leo Messi, and how you deserved it. From all the way back in 2006, when you made your World Cup debut, until now.

Maradona's son: My dad would be proud of this national team

Diego Armando Maradona Sinagra was born in September 1986, just months after his father conquered the world at the World Cup in Mexico.

May 3, 2017
May 3, 2017

Diego Maradona will visit Kolkata on Sept 18-19

Argentina’s football wizard Diego Maradona will visit Kolkata on September 18-19 this year, about a month ahead of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup Final in that city.

March 28, 2017
March 28, 2017

No word from Maradona: FIFA

Soccer's governing body FIFA said on Monday it had heard nothing official from Diego Maradona since the Argentine World Cup winner threatened last week to quit his ambassadorial role.

January 31, 2017
January 31, 2017

IT STARTED FROM BARCELONA

Diego Maradona has revealed his drug problems began when he was at Barcelona in the 1980s in an interview with an Italian private television network, Canale 5.

January 10, 2017
January 10, 2017

Maradona backs 48-team WC

Diego Maradona on Monday backed controversial plans to expand the World Cup to 48 teams, a day before world football's powerful governing council faces a key decision on the issue.

December 5, 2016
December 5, 2016

Fidel Castro interred in rock, closing last chapter of historic life

Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro's ashes were encased in a large granite boulder on Sunday in a ceremony that capped nine days of public mourning and aimed to literally set in stone the legacy of one of the 20th century's most influential characters.

December 4, 2016
December 4, 2016

Castro funeral cortege reaches destination, friends gather

Flag-waving Cubans leaned from windows and lined the streets as Fidel Castro's funeral cortege approached the end of three-day journey on Saturday, rolling into the city of Santiago de Cuba where the revolutionary leader's remains will be laid to rest.

December 2, 2016
December 2, 2016

Barcelona v Real Madrid: Fans' view

Real Madrid can open a nine-point lead over bitter rivals Barcelona at the top of La Liga by winning Saturday's 'Clasico' at the Nou Camp.

November 30, 2016
November 30, 2016

Football mourns Brazilian players killed in air crash, lack of fuel suspected

A plane that crashed in the mountains of Colombia, killing 71 people, including members of a Brazilian football team, may have run out of fuel, a Colombian military source told AFP.

November 27, 2016
November 27, 2016

Football legend Maradona mourns "second father" Castro

For football great Diego Maradona, Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro was more than a friend and fellow Latin American legend, he was "a second father."

October 30, 2016
October 30, 2016

Diego Maradona's childhood home turned into public museum in Buenos Aires

How many sleepless nights did the young man who would become one of soccer's greatest players spend gazing up at the ceiling, imagining dizzying dribbles, spectacular goals and hoisting the World Cup above his head?