Photos: Remembering Maradona, Latin America's Patron Saint Of The Pitch
Plus: NPR's Latino staffers share their memories of the Argentine soccer legend.
by Laura Beltrán Villamizar
Nov 25, 2020
2 minutes
I first came to know Diego Armando Maradona in September 1993, when I was watching the qualifying match between Argentina and my country of Colombia for the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
Even though I was just a young kid at the time, I knew that Maradona, Argentina's star player, was something special.
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