3. Maradona

Diego Armando Maradona was born on 30^th October 1960 Villa Fiorito, near Buenos Aires, Argentina. He belongs to a poor family and was the first son after the three daughters. Two of his younger brother’s Hugo and Eduardo, both were also professional football players. They had very low budget even that they could buy a ball for their younger kids.

Luckily, some other street kids could afford one and invited Maradona to play with them, from that times he proved that he is enough talented to go ahead. He was offered a place in the youth squad of Argentinos Juniors at the age of 10 only.

He was shorter than most of his other teammates who was grew up. He could fire up short sprints and could control the ball in a very quick manner due to his strong legs. That made him debut to the Argentinos Junior in 1976 and played for more 5 years for the team before he moved to, Boca Juniors.

Maradona was called to the 1982’s world cup when constantly he was giving best for the Boca junior. He just put all them amaze, that a young Argentinean played 5 matches and scored twice against Hungary.

His unforgettable performance in 1982 World Cup gave him chance to play for the FC Barcelona, who eventually bought him from Boca. People were hoping for but he suffered a lot of injuries in that series.  He moved to an Italian mediocre team, SSC Napoli. That was a place he just became at its highest point, he managed this mid-table team to win its first championship in 1986/87, then runners up for the next two seasons as well before winning the “Scudetto” again in 1989/1990.

In 1986, he remained one of the star of the World Cup. He captained the Argentinean National squad. He scored 5 goals and had 5 assists throughout the tournament. In quarter finals against England he scored a goal, viewed as “Goal of the century.”

As he was switching teams due to which he lost his spark, as moved from Napoli to FC Selvilla in 1992, then to Argentinean side Newell’s Old Boys in 1993 and then back to Boca Junior and played for two more years.

He captained his national side in Italy’s 1990 World Cup. Argentina was close to defend but an ankle injury did not allow him to perform his best and they lost final’s from West Germany 1-0. He played his last World Cup in 1994 help in the United States, he jus managed two games only and sent back to home after failing a controversial Drug test. He became a part of that group of people who was a there at every World Cup organized in 4 different Countries. In his career for Argentine he did 34 goals in 91 games during 1977 – 1994.