César Menotti, who has died aged 85, was the architect of Argentina’s triumph on home soil at the 1978 World Cup and subsequently oversaw the first flourishing of Diego Maradona. Menotti himself ...

Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of Diego winning the World Youth Championship, a triumph that was taken advantage of by the infamous Jorge Videla Before Argentina's kids travelled to Japan in ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Dec. 22, 2020, but is being republished to mark the one-year anniversary of Diego Maradona’s death, with the inclusion of new anecdotes from ...

DOHA – For the first time since the 1978 World Cup, Argentina is without Diego Maradona on soccer’s biggest stage. The team could use him more than ever as the South American team is off to a rocky ...

“When you’re on the pitch, life goes away. Problems go away. Everything goes away” — Diego Maradona, 1960-2020 Those words, uttered by Diego Armando Maradona over slow-motion images of his artistry, ...

The duality in Diego Maradona’s outsized life was perhaps laid out clearest within his most famous game. In the quarterfinal at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, against Argentina’s hated rivals England, ...

FIFA looks back at Diego Maradona's sensational U-20 World Cup campaign at Japan 1979. During a triumphant campaign at the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship™, Argentina scored more than three goals ...

A mop-haired boy from a Buenos Aires slum, Diego Armando Maradona dribbled and dazzled his way to world fame, becoming one of the greatest soccer players of all time and achieving a godlike status in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By TALES AZZONI DOHA, Qatar (AP) — For the first time since the 1978 World Cup, Argentina is without Diego Maradona on soccer’s biggest stage. The team could ...