Football Special Report: Fifty facts about Diego Maradona- The Argentinean Legend (Part 3)
Article Continued From Part 2.
37. The die hard Fans of Diego Maradona actually started a "Church of Maradona" in 1998 in Buenos Aires. Their start of the year is marked by Diego Maradona’s birthday which is the thirtieth of October 30 and in 2010 it became fifty D.D which stands for
After Diego or “despues de Diego.”
38. Diego Maradona’s second goal against the Three Lions came after just four minutes after he scored with the ‘Hand of God’ in the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup. This came when everyone saw El Diego dribble past his opposing team’s defenders and then
later beat Peter Shilton to the two to nil score. This goal was also declared to be the goal of the century by FIFA.
39. Diego Maradona also has a lookalike puppet of him in a French show called 'Les guignols de l'info'.
40. Diego Maradona is also a good friend of Fidel Castro the famous Cuban leader.
41. Diego Maradona also had to leave Napoli in 1991 as a drug test had confirmed cocaine in his system.
42. Maradona actually refused to go to the 2006 World Cup opening ceremony that took place in Germany as he said that he had not come just to watch Pele walk around.
43. In a war of words going on between Pele and Maradona, the Brazilian commented by saying that it is not Maradona’s fault for his short comings in the World Cup during his managing spell but it’s the fault of the people who put him in charge of the Argentinean
national team. Maradona responded to this abuse by saying that "Pele should go back to the museum. And stay there."
44. The Italian officials actually revealed to the general public that Diego Maradona owes them thirty seven million Euros and almost half of this money is from interest from his original debt.
45. Diego Maradona has an amazing average of 0.526 goals scored per games played in his domestic competitions.
46. Diego Maradona is the third highest goal scorer for Argentina and is only behind Hernan Crespo and Gabriel Batistuta.
47. The Tartan Army actually came up with a chant in praise of Maradona that is sung repeatedly and this came in honour for sending their neighbours out of the 1986 World Cup tournament.
48. Diego Maradona commented on the 1998 World Cup by saying that all the players have square feet and they are like Robocops in need of more lubrication rather than massages. He finished by saying that he had not seen a worse tournament yet.
49. In 2006 the IIMSAM which stands for Intergovernmental Institution for the Use of Micro-algae Spirulina against Malnutrition actually appointed Maradona as their Goodwill Ambassador.
50. Gustavo Bernstein an Argentinean psychologist and author of a book on Maradona described him as the Argentinean maximum term of reference. He said that no other man in Argentina embodies their presence as a group of people more than Maradona and in he has
been so compassionate in the last twenty years that ‘Argentina is Maradona, Maradona is Argentina.’
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