One of the greatest footballers of all time and an icon of the game Diego Maradona unfortunately passed away today due to a cardiac arrest. Two weeks ago he had undergone a surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain.<\/p>\n
He is regarded as one of the greats of the game, particularly because he led his nation Argentina to a World Cup victory in 1986. Maradona also won the Golden Ball (best player award) that campaign. He was also known for scoring the infamous \u2018Hand of God\u2019 goal.<\/p>\n
Known for his dribbling skills, low centre of gravity, creativity, vision and pace, Maradona inspired a generation of footballers.<\/p>\n
He was the coach of Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n club Gimnasia de La Plata from 2019 until his death.<\/p>\n
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The Argentinian breathed his last in Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":32665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[660,1132,984,179],"class_list":["post-10157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-argentina","tag-diego-maradona","tag-fifa","tag-napoli"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}