Football legend Diego Maradona dies

Diego Maradona, one of the greatest footballers of all time, died Wednesday at the age of 60, plunging his sport and his native Argentina into mourning. Renowned along with Pele as one of the greatest players ever to play the game, the Argentine World Cup-winning captain died of a heart attack, having undergone brain surgery earlier this month. Maradona will forever be known for his "Hand of God" goal against England in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final in Mexico, when he appeared to use his hand to push the ball into the net before later swerving through the English defenders for a memorable second goal that sealed victory.

Argentina captain Lionel Messi mourned the death of a football legend and his former coach Diego Maradona, Messi played under Maradona's managership in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and termed his football legend's passing away as ‘sad for the beautiful game.’ Brazilian football great Pele mourned his fellow legend Diego Maradona saying he hoped they would "play together in the sky" one day. "Sad news. I have lost a dear friend, and the world has lost a legend," 

The Argentine legend, who was 57 when he came to Kolkata, had managed to dribble, show glimpses of his deft left foot and even crooned Spanish songs, as he sweated it out with a bunch of school children and bid them adieu with a promise to "bring football" to India. A lot many in the 'City of Joy'  recall how a little bulky version of Maradona huffed and puffed during a charity football game three years ago.He played against a cricketing demigod in Sourav Ganguly, who was among the first to react to his death in Buenos Aires by saying that he lost his hero. He also obliged his many die-hard fans with photographs and did not mind sitting on the pitch for that perfect frame.