天才球星-马拉多纳（上）
Diego Armando Maradona was born on October 30th 1960 at 7.00 o'clock in the morning in the poor district of Villa Fiorito, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires. He was the fifth of the eight children of Diego Maradona and Dalma Salvadora Franco.He began playing football when he was nine year old in Cebollitases, the juvenile team of Argentinos Jrs. Thanks to his unbelievable technical abilities people nicknamed him "Pibe de Oro" (Golden Boy). He played for this team for about six years and when he was 16 he played for the first time in the major League with Argentinos Juniors, his first professional team.
Four months later Diego played for the major National team at the age of 16. In 1978 the Argentinian trainer Menotti didn't convoke Maradona, as he considered him too young. Diego suffered a lot a lot for this unexpected exclusion and the Argentinian public opinion contested the trainer.
In 1979 Maradona disputed and won the Juvenile World Cup, and in that demonstration he was recognized as the best player of the tournament. This was the first occasion for Diego to show himself to the world. His star was in continuous rise and many people started thinking that he was the heir of Pelè. In 1981 he pIn 1982 he played the World Cup in Spain. This was the first World Cup of Maradona and he was the most attended player. He played quite well and scored 2 goals, but in the most important games (against Brazil and Italy) Diego played badly and was also expelled for an ugly reaction fault. Argentina was eliminated in the second turn.layed for one of the most famous Argentinian teams: the Boca Jrs.
In the same year Diego was engaged by the Spaniard team Barcellona, that paid for his transfer the record sum of 7 billion liras. Maradona remained two years in Spain and played only 36 games in the Spanish championship because