It apparently takes more than a hamstring injury and accusations of tax fraud to keep Lionel Messi from scoring goals as he completed a hat trick before the 50th minute of Argentina's 4-0 win friendly win against Guatemala. With that trio of goals (the one shown above being the standout), Messi...
Maradona has yet to meet his new son Diego Fernando, who was born last week, but he has already worked out where he will play in a future Argentine national team with Lionel Messi and Kun Aguero's sons. For the record, Messi's son, Thiago, is three months old and Aguerio's boy, who is Maradona's...
Maradona owes the Italian authorities roughly €40 million for unpaid taxes (with interest that reportedly adds €3,000 a day) stemming from his time playing for Napoli over 20 years ago. This has made travel in Italy difficult for him as the taxman has been waiting on his few visits back to the...
All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award-winning Dirty Tackle...
This song was broadcast on the Dubai Sports Channel. Because it is awesome. Try not to dance to it. [YouTube]
Here's the own goal that's sparked yet another match fixing investigation in Italy...
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As Maradona settles into life in Dubai (and by "settles" I of course mean "kicks locals who annoy him"), he recently decided to get a U.A.E. driver's license so he can cruise around in cars provided by Al Wasl sponsor Audi. And while he was at the Belhasa Driving Center getting his...
How many managers kick a fan's hand and win their first match for a new club on the same day? Well, Maradona can now say that he has.
Before his second match in charge at the Dubai club, Maradona fended off eager fans and climbed over the advertising board to have his picture taken with a...
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The day after Argentina were knocked out of Copa America on penalties, Fox Sports Argentina's Julian Fernandez tweeted the above picture of a "Return Diego!" banner hung at the team's training ground by fans. Apparently these fans believe that getting eliminated in the quarterfinals of...
made him even better than Messi.? I'm fed up with all these people comparing Messi to the genius that was Maradona. I saw Maradona play when he was Messi's age and he was much better. Just because Messi can dribble like Maradona doesn't mean he is on Maradona's level.
What made Maradona so...