New Maradona

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New Maradona or New Diego was a title given by the press and public to promising Argentine football players in reference (and reverence) to Diego Maradona as a benchmark. Since Maradona retired, fans had been anticipating someone to lead the Argentina national team to a World Cup final, like Maradona did in 1986 and 1990. As a consequence, very talented youngsters were quickly labeled as the New Maradona. Originally it was Diego Latorre who was said to be the New Maradona. Since then, a number of top-draw Argentine footballers have been slated as the New Maradona. The likes of Ariel Ortega, Pablo Aimar, Gabriel Omar Batistuta and Javier Pedro Saviola all had been said to be the “New Maradona” early on in their career, but none of them could live up to the expectations. In recent years, the title has been retired as Lionel Messi captained Argentina to 3 World Cup Finals in 2014, 2022 and 2026. Just like Maradona did in 1986 he captained Argentina to World Cup glory doing so in 2022 and in...

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