It’s not easy being the god of your nation’s unofficial religion, and Argentina’s soccer fans have become accustomed to the occasional meltdown by their appointed deity, Diego Maradona. Maradona’s ...
Every time someone wanted to plan a scenario for how to act in the face of huge breaking news, all newsrooms in Argentina used the same example: “What do we do the day Diego Maradona dies?” Sadly, ...
Players as great, transcendental and beloved as Diego Maradona pick up a lot of nicknames throughout their careers. Maradona was “El Pibe de Oro,” “Dieguito,” and some people went as far as to put him ...
Diego Maradona died on Wednesday morning at the age of 60 a few weeks after having brain surgery. But it was the complications of a heart attack that did him in — coincidentally, for in the words of ...