1. DIEGO MARADONA General: Diego Armando Maradona, born 30 October 1960, is an Argentine football coach as well as a manager and former player. Many experts, football critics, former players, current players and football fans in general consider Maradona to be the greatest football player of all time. Maradona is considered one of the sport’s most controversial and newsworthy figures. He was suspended from football for 15 months in 1991 after failing a drug test, in Italy, and he was sent home from the 1994 World Cup in the USA after testing positive for aphedrine. In 2005 he lost the weight and overcame his drug addiction. His outspoken manners have sometimes put him at odds with journalists and sport executives but his honesty is admirable. Although he had a little managerial experience, he became head coach of the Argentina national team in 2008 and held the job for eighteen months until his contract expired after 2010 World Cup.

2. Early Years… Maradona was born in Lanús, but raised in Villa Fiorito, a shantytown on the southern outskirts of Buenos Aires, to a poor family that had moved from Corrientes Province. He was the first son after three daughters. He has two younger brothers, Hugoand Raúl, both of whom were also professional football players. Maradona has Italian, and indigenous ancestry. At age 10, Maradona was spotted by a talent scout while he was playing in his neighborhood club Estrella Roja. He became a staple of Los Cebollitas (The Little Onions), the junior team of Buenos Aires's Argentinos Juniors. As a 12-year-old ball boy, he amused spectators by showing his wizardry with the ball during the halftime intermissions of first division games.

3. CREATED BY: Kostas Dimopoulos, Aris Katsolis, Panos Konstantopoulos, Dimitris Athanasoulis, Thanasis Bantos.