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Browse book recommendations:. Football Soccer. Last updated: November 27, Diego Maradona died on 25 November He was voted the joint-greatest player of the 20 th century, along with Pele. But Maradona won the popular vote. Here are five books to help you understand him and his world. Argentina won the competition in Mexico, despite only having one really good player.

But he really was very good indeed. In the quarterfinal he famously put two past England, one with his hand and the other—the goal of the century—with his jaw-dropping brilliance. Read expert recommendations. Maradona had to leave Barcelona under a cloud.

Maradona, Diego.

He moved to lowly Napoli and turned them into Italian and Uefa Cup champions. No one else could have done it. This book charts his story there—the football, the deification, the drugs and the mafia. The famous footballer as global business executive, with a carefully curated image, a huge staff and a well thought out, long-term strategy.

Maradona was caught up in a very murky world in Naples.