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Diego Armando Maradona Franco (Spanish: [ˈdjeɣo maɾaˈðona]; 30 October 1960 – 25 November 2020) was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, he was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the 20th Century award, alongside Pelé.
A famous example is the case of Diego Maradona and his ban from 1990-91 Serie A for using cocaine during a match. Maradona was banned again three years later for using ephedrine during the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Incidence of the use of performance-enhancing drugs ("doping") in football seems to be lower than in other sports.
Newly released records show that, in 1996, investigators in South America asked the FBI to track down Maradona’s tainted urine sample from the 1994 World Cup.
The tournament saw the end of Diego Maradona's World Cup career, having played in the 1982, 1986, and 1990 World Cups, and leading Argentina to the 1986 World Cup title and the final of the 1990 World Cup. Maradona was expelled from the tournament by FIFA after he failed a drug test that uncovered ephedrine, a weight-loss drug, in his blood.
A trial of eight health workers charged with “homicide by negligence” over the death of Diego Maradona has been postponed from October until March, Argentine media reported on Thursday.. A ...
The last image we have of Patrick Cagey is of his first moments as a free man. He has just walked out of a 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, dressed in gym clothes and carrying a Nike duffel bag. The moment reminds his father of Patrick’s graduation from college, and he takes a picture of his son with his cell phone.
“David wasn’t a drug addict, or anything like that," she told Cuomo via a virtual video interview posted online Feb. 2, 2024. "He didn't take the drugs to get dead. If he took the drugs on his ...
Argentina went on to win 2–1, with Maradona scoring a second goal known as the "Goal of the Century", en route to claiming the World Cup. The goal's name derives from Maradona's initial response on whether he scored it illegally, stating it was made "a little with the head of Maradona, and a little with the hand of God".