Diego Armando Maradona (Lanús, 30 October 1960 – Tigre, 25 November 2020) was an Argentine footballer, an attacking midfielder, world champion in 1986 and vice-world champion in 1990 with the Argentina national team. Among the most controversial and iconic figures in the history of sport for his eccentric and polarizing personality on and off the pitch, he was nicknamed El Pibe de Oro and is considered one of the greatest footballers of all time. In a professional career lasting more than twenty years he played for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli (with which he won two Italian championships, an Italian Cup, an Italian Super Cup and a UEFA Cup), Seville and Newell's Old Boys. With the Argentine national team he participated in four World Cups (1982, 1986, 1990 and 1994), winning the 1986 tournament as a protagonist; the 91 matches played and the 34 goals scored for the national team initially constituted two records, which were subsequently broken. Against England in the quarter-finals of Mexico 1986 he scored a goal considered the goal of the century, three minutes after scoring a goal with his hand known as the mano de Dios.