Explaining the meaning of Diego Armando Maradona for the Napoli fans and the whole city of Naples is almost impossible. He was an icon beyond soccer.

Maradona, meanwhile, flicked the ball up again, kneed it, chested it, spun around, controlled it. The only time he made the sign of the cross came an hour later. But it wasn’t to God.

It could be argued that the history of the World Cup can be defined as before and after the game between England and Argentina 36 years ago – with one Diego Armando Maradona as protagonist.

Problems go away. Everything goes away” — Diego Maradona, 1960-2020 Those words, uttered by Diego Armando Maradona over slow-motion images of his artistry, carry immense poignancy.

The Naples city council voted Friday to rename Stadio San Paolo, the home of Italian football club Napoli, to Stadio Diego Armando Maradona in honor of the legendary Argentine striker who died Nov ...

Diego Armando Maradona, the mop-haired boy from a Buenos Aires slum who dribbled and dazzled his way to world fame, becoming one of the greatest soccer players of all time but also one of the most ...

Argentinian as I am, I feel entitled to write about two glories of our national soccer: a current one, as Lio Messi (Lionel and Leonel here is almost the same name) and another, eternal and ...

Diego Maradona holds up his team’s trophy after Argentina’s 3-2 victory over West Germany at the World Cup final at Atzeca Stadium in Mexico City on June 29, 1986. The Argentine soccer great ...

ROME (AP) It was a goal that brought back memories of Diego Armando Maradona. Dries Mertens' improvised long-distance lob in the second half of Napoli's 4-1 comeback win at Lazio was instantly ...

Updated 1:45 p.m. ET Diego Armando Maradona, who rose from the slums of Buenos Aires to lead Argentina's national team to victory in the 1986 World Cup, lost his way through substance abuse and ...