The Hand of God: The Life of Diego Maradona Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Hand of God: The Life of Diego Maradona Book

The playing fields of the '80s and '90s are sadly littered with the unfulfilled promises of athletic greatness deterred by self-destruction. Soccer star Diego Maradona rose from the slums of Buenos Aires to teenage fame and a career that blazed its way across Europe before reaching apotheosis in the 1986 World Cup. That World Cup performance, in which Maradona raised his already magnificent game an impossible notch or two, elevated him to a sporting pantheon reached only by a supernatural handful: think Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, and Pelé. But, as biographer Jimmy Burns painfully details, the charismatic and stormy Maradona quickly lost everything to drugs, scandal, and corruption. Maradona's is a cautionary tale, and Burns relates it with charisma.Read More

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  • 0747527652
  • 9780747527657
  • Jimmy Burns
  • 19 September 1996
  • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 224
  • First Edition
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