CARACAS - Argentine football legend Diego Maradona visited the tomb of his friend Hugo Chavez on Friday and urged Venezuelans to elect the late leftist leader's designated successor in this weekend's presidential election. Wearing a white shirt and donning diamonds in each ear, Maradona called on ...

RIO DE JANEIRO  - Diego Maradona reopened his feud with Pele by calling the Brazilian legend an “idiot” on Argentine radio. It came just days after Pele’s assertion that Brazil striker Neymar was a more complete footballer than Barcelona star Lionel Messi, Xinhua ...

Sports Desk LONDON - Football legend Diego Maradona has said that Lionel Messi has that X-factor which only the greatest possess, and added that he can be termed as 'new Maradona. All eyes will be on Barcelona star Messi at Wembley like they used to be on Maradona every time he had the ball. He ...

BERLIN (AFP) German football legend Franz Beckenbauer expressed his amazement on Friday at the criticism of Argentinian coach Diego Maradona which has emanated mainly from Brazils three-time World Cup winner Pele. Beckenbauer - whom Maradona is attempting to emulate in winning the World Cup both ...

PRETORIA (AFP) Argentina coach Diego Maradona hit out at Brazilian legend Pele and UEFA president Michel Platini as the war of words between the former playing greats continued on Wednesday. Maradona was speaking to the press at the Loftus Versfeld stadium here on the eve of the South Americans ...

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) Argentina coach Diego Maradona named his 23-man World Cup squad on Wednesday, dropping seven players from the provisional list named last week. Colon defender Ariel Garce, 30, keeps his place despite having won just one cap for the national team in this months 4-0 World Cup ...

CUTRAL-CO (Argentina) (Reuters) Argentine Football Association President Julio Grondona was in national coach Diego Maradonas sights on Wednesday when he complained about the cancellation of a May 29 World Cup warm-up in Dubai. I have the bad news that (the friendly) is not on, but for this one ...

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) Argentina coach Diego Maradona on Wednesday handed veteran midfielder Ariel Ortega a surprise recall to the national team for a friendly international against Haiti. Ortega, who took part in the 1994, 1998 and 2006 World Cups, has been pondering retirement after facing serious ...

Soccer superstar Diego Maradona said Saturday he was greatly touched by the frenzy over his brief visit here and promised to come back to India again in future. "It has been beyond my imagination," a visibly moved Maradona told reporters through an interpretor. "I did not know that I had so many ...

PARIS (AFP) - England's young generation laid the bedrock for a 2-1 win over bitter rivals Germany on Wednesday while old nemesis Diego Maradona enjoyed a winning start to life as Argentina coach with a 1-0 victory in Scotland. On a busy night of international football, world champions Italy had ...