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 ...

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.

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

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

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

Legendary soccer player Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60. NPR's David Greene speaks to filmmaker Richard Sanders about Maradona's life.

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 ...

It is certainly possible that Diego Armando Maradona, who died Wednesday at age 60, was the finest soccer player ever to draw breath, though that is a subject of hot and unyielding debate. Less ...

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.