Diego Maradona Dies – level 1

Diego Maradona Dies

01-12-2020 07:00

Diego Maradona is a football legend. He comes from Argentina. All the world knows him. Maradona dies at the age of 60. He dies from a heart attack.

Millions of football fans love Maradona. He is an excellent footballer. He helps Argentina win the World Cup in 1986. Maradona scores an amazing goal in a match against England. All football fans remember the goal even today.

Maradona becomes a football star after 1986. But his private life is not so great. Maradona has big problems with drugs and alcohol. Sometimes he is not able to play. He ends his football career in 1997.

Difficult words: legend (a very famous person who is good at something), heart attack (a serious problem when a heart stops working well), career (a job that somebody does for some time).

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