Diego Maradona, aged 60, legend of Argentine soccer, fiend to fans of English soccer, and generally very interesting guy passed into the ‘Hand of God’ on Wednesday, 11/25.
I am a soccer illiterate. An ignoramus. I’m not anti-soccer at all. Maybe a little agnostic. But I’m trying.
Here’s everything I know about Diego Maradona.
- I watched him play for about 10 minutes in the 1990 World Cup Final, which they lost to Germany. I think he got a yellow card.
2. I gather that Maradona was a villain for that unique breed of American soccer fan who cheers for England’s Three Lions instead of the sad-sack USMNT.