Diego Maradona has been hospitalized, as he showed on Monday.
The former Argentine international, who turned 60 on Friday, entered a clinic in the town of La Plata, about 60 kilometers from Buenos Aires, according to his non-public physician Leopoldo Luque.
Luque tossed Maradona, who lately is the head coach of Gymnastics and Fencing of La Plata, suffering from Covid-19 or a respiratory challenge and made it clear that he voluntarily entered for a general exam.
The doctor also showed that Maradona will be at the Ipensa clinic on Monday night.
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In memorable moments, few footballers have delivered like “The Golden Boy” Maradona.
There his purpose of “Hand of God” opposed England’s at the 1986 World Cup. He quickly followed his labyrinthine, desirable and woven purpose in the same match, which is considered one of the greatest scored ever.
Perhaps it is not surprising then that when he returned as coach of a club opposed to a team for which he had already played, Maradona was presented with a throne on which to sit the match.
Widely regarded as one of the all-time players, where his peaks have resulted in World Cup victories and a notable Serie A name for Napoli, yet the colorful life Maradona has lived off the pitch. it has led to excessive lows, especially with addiction problems. drug addiction, illegitimate youth and economic disputes.
An unrecognized son, mafia photographs and cocaine attacks have been documented in British filmmaker Asif Kapadia’s documentary about Maradona in Naples, possibly the era of his football career in which he was most successful.
But before the little Argentine became one of the most recognizable people in the world, he was only a “black kid from the slum”, in the words of his former physical trainer Fernando Signorini.
Born in 1960 in the Villa Fiorito district of Buenos Aires, Maradona says football is his “hello,” which helped him pull his family circle out of poverty before leaving for a world record in Barcelona in 1982.
After being devastated by the injuries of the Catalan club, he signed through Napoli or, as one announcer said: “Italy’s poorest people buy the world’s top wanted player. “
During his time in Naples, he won the club almost alone, was the first Serie A title, followed his moment a year later, won the UEFA Cup and won the World Cup with Argentina in 1986.
And if he is just one of the many world-class strikers in Argentina, he rose to fame after real Madrid’s wonderful Alfredo Di Stefano and before the ideal of Barcelona Lionel Messi, it is Maradona’s brazenness that separates him from the others.
“If you present a television screen, it’s the maximum, surreal tv screen we’ve seen,” Argentine journalist Marcela Mora and Araujo wrote for CNN.
“If you walk into a room, other people stop at a rite and tell for years how they were in the room when he came in. Power, charm, talent and the ability to be perceived as fragile, vulnerable and imperfect with that. »
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He is a family named before him, but the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, where Maradona rose to fame.
Maradona, 26, scored two goals for the quarter-finals, and it was in this iconic match against England that he advanced.
In the 51st minute, he surrendered, beating legendary England goalkeeper Peter Shilton, with his arm outstretched, his fist clenched and simply hitting the ball in the net in what he later called the “hand of God. “
As Mora and Araujo wrote: “As shocking as it is unfair, tension only expands as enthusiasts inside the stadium and watching TV wonder if the purpose will stand. “
And if his first purpose showed his mischievous and cheeky side, Maradona’s “Goal of the Century,” which followed 4 minutes later, showed the brilliingness of the man.
Upon receiving the ball on the middle line, Maradona dribbling seven English defenders passing Shilton
“They have all been ‘dead’, as the English commentator then said. Each with a look of amazement on his face, an addition of horror that opposed them and astonishment that they have such exclusive access to witness this wonder,” Mora and Araujo said.
While playing the most productive football of his life in Mexico, Maradona’s private life was not going very well.
Her Christian lover Sinagra back in Italy, pregnant with Diego Armando Maradona Sinagra, for years refused to acknowledge her paternity and did not meet her son until 2003.
The events of Kapadia’s film when Maradona contacted camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia, with the documentary showing shots of the footballer smiling alongside members of the crime syndicate.
As Napoli’s player at the height of his addiction, he was partying from Sunday to Wednesday, with Maradona describing how he passed by and locked himself in the bathroom to hide from his young daughters.
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After a failed drug control in 1991 and a 15-month football ban, his career in the picture collapsed. Although he spent seasons in Spain and back in Argentina, he did not achieve that form that daeslution enthusiasts and opponents.
A nomadic managerial career followed his career as a player. He took him from Argentina and Mexico to the United Arab Emirates, and the club presented the red carpet, or the throne in the case of Newell’s Old Boys, for the football legend.
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