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  • BREAKING: Football legend, Diego Maradona is dead

    BREAKING: Football legend, Diego Maradona is dead

    Football legend Diego Maradona has sadly passed away at the age of 60 on Wednesday.

    The former Argentina attacking midfielder and manager had successful surgery on a brain blood clot earlier in November.

    It was then announced he was to be treated for alcohol dependency.

    One of the greatest players of all time, Maradona was captain when Argentina won the 1986 World Cup, producing a series of sublime individual performances.

    He played for Barcelona and Napoli during his club career, winning two Serie A titles with the Italian side.

  • Diego Maradona to be treated for alcohol dependency

    Diego Maradona to be treated for alcohol dependency

    Argentina legend Diego Maradona will be discharged from hospital on Wednesday and taken to a recovery clinic to be treated for alcohol dependency.

    Maradona, who led his country to World Cup triumph in 1986, had a successful operation for possible bleeding on his brain earlier in November.

    “The good thing is that Diego is together, Diego is solid,” his lawyer, Matias Morla, said.

    Maradona was admitted to the Ipensa clinic in Buenos Aires last week with anaemia and dehydration, BBC reports.

    Only a few close friends will be allowed to visit the 60-year-old at the rehabilitation clinic.

    “Diego has gone through maybe the most difficult moment of his life and I think it was a miracle that they found this bleeding in his brain that could have cost him his life,” his lawyer added.

  • Diego Maradona to remain in hospital

    Diego Maradona to remain in hospital

    Argentine football legend, Diego Maradona, is to remain for at least one more day in hospital as he suffers from anemia and mild dehydration, his doctor said on Tuesday.

    “He’s doing better but we think he should stay for another day,’’ Dr Leibarzt Leopoldo Luque told television station TyC Sports.

    On Monday, the 1986 World Cup winner was admitted to the Ipensa hospital in La Plata, three days after his 60th birthday.

    “It was emotional, a slightly difficult week for him,’’ Luque said.

    “He was under big pressure. That hurt him mentally.’’

    Maradona was assisted by two helpers when he appeared at Friday’s match of Gimnasia y Esgrima, the team he coaches, to receive birthday wishes and presents.

  • Messi is always complaining – Aguero

    Messi is always complaining – Aguero

    Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has joked that he and Barcelona ace Lionel Messi are “like an old married couple”, when they hook up on Argentina duty.

    Messi made his debut for his country in 2005, a year before Aguero joined the Argentina senior set-up.

    The duo have played together at three World Cups, four Copa Americas and won gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

    Although both players always share a room, Aguero has revealed that he always leaves Messi complaining.

    “He always complains, we are like an old married couple.

    “I always fall asleep with the TV on and when I wake up the next morning he is always complaining to me.

    “He arrives at the hotel and instantly takes a shower while I’m just sitting talking on my mobile phone. Then he will remind me that we need to go down to dinner and we do not have time,” Aguero said on the Santo Sabado programme.

  • Messi ban now over – AFA president

    Messi ban now over – AFA president

    Lionel Messi can play in Argentina’s opening 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier next month, Claudio Tapia, president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), said on Thursday.

    Tapia said this was because the statute of limitations (barring him from playing) has run out on the ban he was given during last year’s Copa America

    Messi was banned for one game after being sent off in the Copa America third-place playoff against Chile and for levelling accusations of “corruption” at South American football chiefs.

    Messi had been expected to serve the ban by missing Argentina’s qualifier against Ecuador, which is scheduled to take place in Buenos Aires on Oct. 8.

    However, Tapia said he had consulted with South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) President Alejandro Dominguez.

    “…. he confirmed the statute of limitations had expired and that he (Messi) is able to play,” Tapia was quoted as saying by AFA on twitter.

    The FC Barcelona forward was shown the red card after clashing with Gary Medel.

    Afterwards, he alleged the tournament had been fixed in favour of hosts Brazil, who beat Argentina in a controversial semi-final on their way to claiming the title.

    Argentina, who last won the World Cup in 1986, kick off their qualifying campaign with a double-header at home to Ecuador and away to Bolivia.

  • Juve star tests positive for coronavirus for fourth time

    Juve star tests positive for coronavirus for fourth time

    Juventus forward Paulo Dybala has tested positive for the coronavirus for the fourth time in six weeks, according to reports.

    The Argentine confirmed on March 21 that he and his girlfriend Oriana Sabatini had contracted COVID-19 after his first test.

    According to Spanish programme El Chiringuito, Dybala has had four tests since initially contracting the disease and his most recent test has come back positive yet again.

  • Maradona admits Messi is best player today

    Maradona admits Messi is best player today

    Diego Maradona admits Lionel Messi is “the best football player today” and considers his fellow Argentine to be an “enormous” talent but is hoping to see the Barcelona superstar downed by Napoli.

    The first leg of an eagerly-anticipated Champions League last-16 encounter is due to be staged at Stadio San Paolo on Tuesday.

    That contest is set to see six-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi step into the arena iconic countryman Maradona once called home.

    Much is being made of the Barcelona captain’s presence in Naples, with the 32-year-old following in some illustrious footsteps.

    Comparisons continue to be made between his remarkable career and that of World Cup winner Maradona, with there little to separate two all-time greats.

    Two men at the centre of a fierce debate have attempted to steer clear of being drawn into one regarding who can be considered the best.

    Both have the utmost respect for one another, with Maradona considering Messi to be “a very good boy”.

    He also told Il Mattino of the mercurial Barca star that he once managed while working as head coach of the Argentina national side: “He must continue his career and his life knowing that he is the best football player today.

    “I enjoyed watching Leo with Argentina in every game.”

  • How i helped Messi to score free-kicks – Maradona

    How i helped Messi to score free-kicks – Maradona

    Argentina legend, Diego Maradona has claimed that he helped to teach Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi how to take free-kicks during his regime as La Albiceleste head coach.

    The 58-year-old, who coached Messi while he was manager of the Argentina national team between 2008 and 2010, claims the Barca number 10 sought his counsel over his free-kick technique.

    Messi scored eight direct free-kicks last season for Barcelona but Maradona is now saying that his advice saw the 32-year-old improve greatly on his free kicks.

    Maradona, who was recently appointed coach of Gimnasia, Esgrima La Plata in Argentina Superliga, was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying on Monday: “Messi had an issue with free-kicks. When we finished every training session, we kept Leo behind so he could practice, and he started to hit the post.

    “I didn’t teach him how to take a free-kick, then he asked me how I was able to score.

    “I said, ‘you just have to hit it in the middle. They aren’t going to give me an Oscar to teach you this’.

    “And he replied, ‘but I hit it in the middle and the ball goes this way or that way’ and I told him,

    “don’t worry, you’re going to make it’. Now he just can’t miss.”

  • FIBA World Cup: Nigeria lose second game 81-94 to Argentina

    FIBA World Cup: Nigeria lose second game 81-94 to Argentina

    Nigeria’s D’Tigers lost 81-94 to Argentina on Monday in their second Group B game at the ongoing FIBA Men’s Basketball World Cup in China.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defeat was Nigeria’s second consecutive loss at the tournament, having lost the opening game 77-82 to Russia on Saturday.

    D’Tigers, being debutants at the event, were hoping to outclass the number five ranked Argentines at the Wuhan Sports Centre to move to the second round.

    The first quarter, however, ended in favour of the South Americans 28-17, while a resilient side captained by Ike Diogu pushed on to make a comeback and they led 36-35 in the second quarter.

    The experience of Argentina’s Luis Scola came to the fore, as the team took an 11-point lead at the end of the third quarter, to finish victorious with 94 points.

    Scola, however, made history at the end of the game, climbing to second place in the all-time FIBA World Cup scoring list with 611 career points.

    Argentina have now booked a spot in the second round after two wins against South Korea and Nigeria.

    Nigeria will face South Korea on Wednesday in their third group stage match at the competition which holds from Aug. 31 to Sept. 15 in China.

  • 23-year-old boxer dies after collapsing in ring

    An Argentinian boxer has died after a fight making him the second victim of the sport within a week.
    The 23-year-old super lightweight Hugo Santillan died from injuries suffered during a 10-round bout with Uruguayan champion Eduardo Javier Abreu which ended in a draw in San Nicolas, Argentina.
    He collapsed as he raised his arms in celebration at the final bell, and was treated for a brain clot as well as suffering two heart attacks and kidney failure.
    It comes just two days after the death of Russian fighter Maxim Dadashev who suffered a subdural haematoma during a fight in Maryland, USA.
    He was held up by his trainers but as the result was announced he fell to the canvas, and was met by paramedics who gave him oxygen before he was taken to hospital
    The former South American super-featherweight champion, nicknamed ‘Dinamita’ spent five days in a coma in hospital, where he was treated for a clot of the brain
    He also suffered kidney failure, but heart failure was listed as the cause of his death
    The former South American super-featherweight champion, nicknamed ‘Dinamita’ spent five days in a coma in hospital, where he was treated for a clot of the brain. He also suffered kidney failure, but heart failure was listed as the cause of his death
    A subdural haematoma is a condition where a blood vessel located between the skull and brain – in the subdural space – breaks, causing blood to pool there. It is usually the result of a traumatic head injury.
    Because the blood is trapped by the skull it exerts pressure on the brain, causing brain damage.
    Symptoms include dizziness, confusion, vomiting and loss of consciousness.