Diego Maradona, the Argentine who became a national hero as one of soccer’s greatest players, performing with a roguish cunning and extravagant control while pursuing a personal life rife with ...

Two of the best players to have played soccer in any era were Pele and Diego Maradona. Pele was Brazil’s star player from 1958 up until the 1970 World Cup, while Maradona also inspired his ...

Everyone will have their opinion on whether Maradona or Pele is the greatest player to have graced the World Cup, but now, ...

Diego Armando Maradona played his final professional match on his 37th birthday. It was a Superclásico against River Plate at ...

Argentina should have been among the favourites to win the 2010 World Cup but Diego Maradona's tactical incompetence and ...

Maradona addresses the media after Argentina dropped him from the 1994 World Cup team. Just hours before the team's final first-round game, it was revealed that he had tested positive for the use ...

Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona has died of a heart attack. Here's NPR's Philip Reeves. PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE: No one disputes Diego Maradona was one of the world's greatest-ever soccer players.

Diego Maradona was perhaps the greatest player ever to kick a soccer ball. And yet that only goes so far to explain the global outpouring of grief when he died this week.

In the end, it's the No. 11, but wearing the No. 10 would have been a huge deal. Here's why: The Napoli No. 10 bring us back ...

The debate over who holds the title of greatest soccer player of all time has fueled passionate discussion for generations. Now, legendary coach Carlo Ancelotti —one of the most respected figures in ...