The First Football Club of Diego Maradona

Argentine football is a theater of fanatical supporters cheering their players nonstop with emotion and songs, drums and smoke machines at the tribune. The so-called los hinchas or the supporters, also assault them swearing and saying that they play like they were dead and even worse things, but worshiping is far more normal.

In the city you will always now a football game is one when hearing various screaming from their department blocks out in the buzzy night leaving the streets empty.

In the neighborhood of La Paternal in Buenos Aires, around an hour by car from the city center, the first league soccer club of Argentinos Juniors is based. The team is famous for developing young football players, and above all, the icon Diego Maradona - regarded by many as the greatest football player of all time (not to mention that the Church of Maradona does exist).

This weekend the Argentinos Junios was to play at home against Temperley, a game ending 1-1. The stadium has it´s name from “El Pibe de Oro” - The Golden Boy – being Estadio Diego Armando Maradona.

Maradonas debut

A October day in 1976 the Argentinos Juniors was playing against the team Tallers losing 1-0 when the manager made a big change on his team. He sent the fifteen-year-old boy Diego Armando Maradona out to play, his debut game, making him the youngest player even to play in the league at the time. Maradona played for the Juniors the following four years, becoming the youngest topscorer in Argentine football history before he was sold to Boca Juniors in 1981. Considered a genius, Maradona is known for dribbling through defense like he had the ball tied to his boots. After retiring he had been a coach and manager.