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Diego Armando Maradona (nickname - Golden Boy) is also regarded as one of the greatest soccer player in the history. He was born in a poor family on October 30th 1960 in Villa Fiorito, Buenos Aires.

When he was just 10 years old his talent was recognised by a talent scout While he was playing for neibourhood club. In the halftime of the Argentinos Juniors matches, maradona entertained the audience playing and juggling with the ball. People liked to watch his skills and sometimes the audience used to request to the management of the field not to stop him.

At age 15 his football career started in Argentinos Juniors where he made his debut in the Argentina first division. He then joined Boca Juniors and led the Argentina youth team to win the world cup in 1979. He had also played for other clubs like Barcelona (Spain), Napoli (Italy), Sevilla (Spain) and Newell’s Old Boys (Rosario).

He was basically a left footer. Being one of the legendary masters of the ball, he had the ability to control it any time, even while running at full speed. At times it seemed almost impossible for the defenders to stop his advances without any foul activity. Intelligence and vision were his other obvious talents on the field. With the accuracy of his passes and his uncanny executions bypassing a couple of defenders he seemed a conjuror in his own style.

In the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, Maradona asserted his dominance and was widely regarded as the best player of the tournament. He became the hero of Argentina’s triumph. He scored two goals in the quarter-final game against England which cemented his place as a legend. Action replay footage showed that the first goal was scored with the aid of one of his hands. He later claimed it was the “Hand of God” and described it as “A little of the hand of God, and a little of the head of Maradona,” implying that God was ultimately responsible for the goal, because the referee had missed the handball offense.

In the 1994 World Cup in USA, Maradona was tested after the match against Nigeria and was found to have used “ephedrine”, not permitted by the FIFA. He was suspended from playing soccer for more than a year as a punishment. Although Argentina came in as a strong contender in the 1994 World Cup, all their efforts went downhill and, without their captain, they were defeated soon.

on October 30, 1997, day of his 37th birthday, he retired from football with a gallery of good and bad memories. But he is regarded alongside Pele by the neutral football lovers as the greatest player of all times.

Edson Arantes Do Nascimento (better known as Pele) is well known as a king of Football. He was born on October 23, 1940, in Tres Coracoes, a small village in Brazil. He began playing football at the age of five. He first learned the soccer skills from his father, Dondinho. His father also used to be a good soccer player, whose career came to an early close due to a knee injury. He did not belong to a well off family, therefore he had to adopt to shoe polishing in order to maintain their livelihood.

At the age of eleven Pele was invited by Brazilian premier players, Waldemar de Brito to be part of de Brito’s amateur team, Clube Atletico Bauru. He was the first player who played World Cup at the age 17 years. He scored two goals in the final as Brazil beat Sweden 5–2 in Stockholm. He headed the Brazilian national team for three World Cup titles (’58,’62,’70). He was blessed with speed, great balance, tremendous vision, the ability to control the ball superbly, and the ability to shoot powerfully and accurately with either foot and with his head. His most spectacular signature move was probably the “bicycle kick”.

Did you know?
1) He scored 1281 goals in 1363 matches (all time world record).
2) In 2000, Pelé was honored with “Sportsman of the Century” award. He was the 2nd sportstar for this honor before that the legendary Muhammad Ali got the honors.
3) Pele hated his nickname, and was once suspended from school for 2 days for punching the classmate that coined it.

Since I started my blog, I was feeling that my blog missing something.

Missing something !!!

Ohhh…. really missing the bios of the futball legends. Who are they ? Yup that’s the point.

As far as I remember there are many but out of them I can get the clear view of the true Soccer hero i.e. Edson Arantes do Nascimento (better known as Pele) and Diego Armando Maradona .
So, before world cup starts, I’ll put a brief bios of those two hero.

This could be a bad news for Italian supporters that Christian Vieri (Italian Striker) will not be playing in world cup’2006 as he had an operation some times back. In his place may be AC Milan striker Filippo Inzaghi will be joining the team as a striker.

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Did you know?
1) Ever since the world cup 1934 it became mandatory for each team to qualify through the initial phase to take part in World Cup.

2) This time total 17 matches played.

The final match of world cup 2006 will be played in Olypic Stadium, Berlin on 9th July. This stadium will be hosting 6 matches during 2006 World Cup. It has 76,000 seating capacity.

The Olypic Stadium, Berlin stadium has got immense historical value owing to its significant association with the Nazi Regime. It was once the epitome of sports and culture, that firmly held on to the Nazi pride during the holocaust.

Now the question arise, who will be those 2 countries playing ? Who will be the last man standing holding the World Cup? Will that Brazil, England, France, Spain, Germany or something new ?

Any guess ?
I’ll will write some more interesting facts of world cup, happened before 2006 till then post your guess.