How come diego maradona never played for club America?

Lionel Messi capturing the Golden Ball as the best player at the 2014 FIFA World ... Among the detractors is Argentina legend Diego Maradona. ... Speaking on Latin American television station Telesur, Maradona ... been for club side FC Barcelona, he's never produced what Maradona did internationally.

As Pele celebrates his 70th birthday, and Diego Maradona ... other Brazilian and American titles, while he picked up the FIFA Player of the ... Pele and Maradona did this, both at club and international level, so in ... As for Pele, he never played in Europe, so in some ways he was always in his comfort zone.

Full Name, Diego Armando Maradona, Edson Arantes do Nascimento ... National Team, Year- 1970-76, Club- Argentina, App (Gls) – 91 (34). ... . its fact that pele never played in Europe for domestic leauge. so he never tested unlike maradona , ... . did because pele brought the game to america while maradona only played ...

The teams in question are Argentina's World Cup winners of 1986, and ... European Championships, Copa Americas, Champions League, ... . Once again, Maradona played a massive part in the 1990 triumph, ... .. I hope we see Messi win the WC, he will never win it like diego did but that should be enough.

View all comments about Diego Maradona in our top ten list of Best Soccer ( Football) ... state and suburban competitions, practice matches, and meaningless club friendlies. ... he's from Argentina but he was the best ever to played the game none of the rest come ... I never saw someone dominating the playing field as him.

Who is will finish on top, Diego Maradona or Pele? ... So, as difficult as it is for any player to perform in isolation, some are clearly more important to ... .. Before Pelé, Brazil had never won a world cup nor did they for 24 years without him. ... In his time, South American clubs were easily a match for European.

From humble beginnings Diego Armando Maradona rose to become one of the most ... that he moved to Boca Juniors - one of Argentina's bigger clubs, for a transfer fee of ... football, in 1980 he was FIFA 'Best Player of the Year' in South America. ... Napoli was a team which had never won the championship and was often ... .

His career would have many more highs and lows in the years to come. ... The Argentinos Juniors were winning against the best teams, and his future looked limitless. ... In 1979, Maradona was named South American Player of the Year after he led Argentina to the Junior World Cup. ... The talks never came to fruition.

He did win a Spanish Cup and the now defunct League Cup, but it was a ... El Diego came to be idolized by the Napoli fans as he led the club to Serie A ... One of Maradona's fondest memories is playing for his country in the 1979 ... El Pibe was sent home in disgrace from the 1994 World Cup in the USA after two matches.

South America's World Cup lessons ... . Maradona wasn't considered the best player on earth when he landed ... in on Lionel Messi's never-ending comparison to Diego Maradona. ... Yet he hasn't led the team like Maradona did in 1986. ... have the ghosts of all previous Argentine teams on their shoulders.

All it took was a single mangled pidgin Spanish description of why I had come ... Everybody throughout the Americas loves Diego Maradona, Torrisi said, but ... In a gymnasium at the headquarters of the soccer club Huracán, ... I never changed the way that I play, the way I have done since I was very small.