阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯——阿根廷人迭戈·马拉多纳足球在1986年打进“上帝之手”进球，带领他的国家赢得当年的世界杯冠军，后来又与可卡因滥用和肥胖作斗争的伟人去世了。他60岁。

马拉多纳的发言人塞巴斯蒂安·桑吉说，他在脑部手术后从布宜诺斯艾利斯的一家医院出院两周，于周三死于心脏病发作。

阿根廷总统办公室表示，将颁布为期三天的全国哀悼日，阿根廷人足球协会在推特上表达了他们的悲伤。

这项运动历史上最著名的时刻之一，即“上帝之手”进球，是在1986年世界杯四分之一决赛中，身材矮小的马拉多纳将球射入英格兰队的球门。英格兰队说球是从马拉多纳手里进的，不是他的头。马拉多纳本人对多年来发生的事情给出了相互矛盾的描述，一度将目标归因于神的干预，归因于“上帝之手”。

在10月份他60岁生日之前，马拉多纳告诉《法国足球》杂志，他的梦想是“在对阵英格兰的比赛中再进一球，这次是用右手。”

马拉多纳在20年的职业生涯中，也以他独特的迷人风格吸引了世界各地的球迷。

虽然他的名声被他的毒瘾和掌管国家队的厄运玷污了，但在痴迷足球的阿根廷，他仍然被偶像化为“皮贝·德·奥罗”或“金童”

阿根廷总统阿尔弗雷多·费尔南德斯在社交媒体上说:“你把我们带到了世界之巅。”。“你让我们无比快乐。你是最伟大的。”

他穿的10号球衣成了他的代名词，就像他和巴西巨星贝利一样，马拉多纳经常和他搭档，被认为是历史上最好的球员。

巴西人在一份声明中说，他失去了“一个亲爱的朋友”

“还有很多话要说，但现在愿上帝赐予他的家庭力量，”贝利说。"我希望有一天，我们能在天空一起踢足球."

马拉多纳大胆、快速、完全不可预测，他是进攻大师，在前场比赛中，他可以轻松地将球从一只脚转移到另一只脚。他用他的低重心躲闪和迂回，摆脱了无数的对手，经常用他最有力的武器——毁灭性的左脚得分。

“他脑子里想的一切，都是用脚实现的，”在意大利那不勒斯俱乐部与马拉多纳一起踢球的萨尔瓦托雷·巴格尼说。

不断膨胀的腰围减缓了马拉多纳职业生涯后期的爆发速度，到1991年，他因承认吸食可卡因而陷入第一次兴奋剂丑闻，直到1997年37岁退休。

他在2000年因可卡因引发的心脏问题住院，并在2004年再次濒临死亡，后来他说他克服了毒品问题。他曾说过一句著名的话，可卡因已被证明是他“最强的对手”

但是更多健康问题随之而来，尽管2005年的胃旁路手术大大减轻了他的体重。马拉多纳于2007年初因急性肝炎住院，他的医生将其归咎于过度饮酒和饮食。

2008年，当他被任命为阿根廷队教练时，他不太可能重返国家队，但在2010年南非世界杯四分之一决赛出局后，他被驱逐出境——最终在阿联酋俱乐部瓦斯尔找到了另一份教练工作。

马拉多纳是八个孩子中的第五个，他生长在布宜诺斯艾利斯郊区一个贫穷、艰苦的街区，在那里他踢了一种肮脏的足球，使许多阿根廷人成为国际明星。

他们都没有马拉多纳的名气大。2001年，国际足联将马拉多纳与贝利并列为这项运动历史上最伟大的两人之一。

“马拉多纳激励了我们，”当时的阿根廷前锋卡洛斯·特维斯说，他解释了在2006年德国世界杯上，阿根廷普通人对马拉多纳的迷恋。“他是我们的偶像，也是人民的偶像。”

马拉多纳在国内外都获得了冠军，在进入西班牙和意大利俱乐部之前，他在20世纪80年代初效力于阿根廷青年队和博卡青年队。他的最高成就出现在1986年世界杯上，在决赛中带领阿根廷3-2战胜西德，并在一场激烈的四分之一决赛中决定性地2-1战胜英格兰。

在英国守门员彼得·希尔顿的抗议下，裁判让马拉多纳站在球门前，正如他多年后承认的那样，他故意用手击球“有点恶作剧”

但马拉多纳的影响不会仅限于作弊。四分钟后，他出色地从中场越过四名对手，击败了希尔顿，这是国际足联后来宣布的世界杯历史上最伟大的进球。

许多阿根廷人认为这场比赛是对他们的国家在1982年福克兰群岛战争中输给英国的报复，阿根廷人仍然声称福克兰群岛是“马尔维纳斯群岛”。

“这是我们收复‘马尔维纳斯群岛’的方式，”马拉多纳在他2000年的自传《我是迭戈》中写道

“这不仅仅是为了赢得一场比赛。我们说游戏和战争无关。但我们知道阿根廷人已经死在那里，他们像杀鸟一样杀死了他们。这是我们的报复。它比我们更重要:我们在捍卫我们的旗帜。”

这也证明了马拉多纳的清白，他在后来被称为他职业生涯中“最大的悲剧”的比赛中被淘汰出1978年世界杯的阵容——阿根廷在主场获胜——因为他只有17岁。

马拉多纳说，他能跑后不久就得到一个足球。

“我当时3岁，整晚抱着球睡觉，”他说。

10岁时，马拉多纳因在职业比赛中场休息时表演而成名，他用脚、胸和头将球保持在空中几分钟，令观众惊叹不已。他还首次在阿根廷青年队出场，带领一个14岁的球队经历了136场不败的比赛。

“看他打球是纯粹的幸福，真正的明星，”队友卡洛斯·贝尔特兰说。

马拉多纳从1976年至1981年效力于阿根廷甲级俱乐部青年队，然后去博卡青年队呆了一年，然后以800万美元的世界纪录前往巴塞罗那。

1984年，巴塞罗那将他卖给了意大利的那不勒斯。他几乎是单枪匹马地重塑了它的命运，在1987年赢得了意大利联赛冠军，这是它60年来的第一个冠军。

1990年世界杯决赛输给西德一年后，马拉多纳转会西班牙俱乐部塞维利亚，但他的职业生涯正在走下坡路。1994年，他在阿根廷俱乐部纽厄尔的老男孩队踢了五场比赛，然后从1995-97年回到博卡——他的最后一家俱乐部，也是他最喜欢的俱乐部。

毒品问题使他最后几年的比赛黯然失色。

马拉多纳在1991年的一次兴奋剂检测中失败，并被禁赛15个月，承认他长期吸食可卡因成瘾。他没有通过另一次兴奋剂检测，被赶出了1994年美国世界杯。

退休后，马拉多纳经常作为喧闹的单人啦啦队参加博卡比赛，并参加全球慈善、体育和展览活动。但是这位已经很结实的前锋很快增加了体重，显然在友谊赛中气喘吁吁。

2000年，医生说他与死神擦肩而过，在乌拉圭度假胜地埃斯特角城住院，医生说他的心脏容量不足一半。血液和尿液样本中发现了可卡因的痕迹。

在2004年的另一次紧急住院治疗后，马拉多纳接受了药物滥用咨询，并于同年9月前往古巴哈瓦那精神健康中心接受治疗。在那里，他的朋友古巴总统菲德尔·卡斯特罗拜访了他。

在古巴，马拉多纳开始打高尔夫球，抽雪茄。他经常称赞卡斯特罗和阿根廷出生的革命“切”格瓦拉，格瓦拉曾在古巴革命中与卡斯特罗并肩作战——甚至在他的右臂上纹了格瓦拉的纹身。

马拉多纳说他在那里戒毒，开始了新的篇章。

2005年，他在哥伦比亚接受了胃旁路手术，体重减轻了近50公斤(超过100磅)，随后成为一档广受欢迎的阿根廷电视访谈节目的主持人。在“10之夜”中，马拉多纳和贝利一起绕着一个球，采访了拳击手迈克·泰森和好莱坞名人，并在古巴录制了与卡斯特罗的一段冗长的谈话。

退休后，马拉多纳也变得更加直言不讳。他经常抨击前教练、球员——包括贝利——和教皇。2005年，他在美洲峰会外加入了一列左翼抗议列车，与委内瑞拉总统乌戈·查韦斯站在一起，谴责当时的总统乔治·布什的存在。

阿尔菲奥·巴西勒辞职后，他被选为阿根廷队教练，这让他的局外人身份更加令人惊讶。

他赢得了前三场比赛，但他的战术、选择和对细节的关注都受到了质疑，因为他在世界杯预选赛中以6-1输给玻利维亚，这是阿根廷有史以来最差的失利。

维克托·乌戈·莫拉莱斯，阿根廷最受欢迎的足球广播员，说马拉多纳将最终因一种从未被复制过的惊心动魄的比赛风格而被铭记。

“他是我那个时代最伟大的艺术家之一。像伟大的音乐和绘画大师一样，他挑战了我们的智慧，丰富了人类精神，”莫拉莱斯说。"没有人比迭戈更让我激动和敬畏了."

Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona dies at 60

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who scored the “Hand of God” goal in 1986 and led his country to that year's World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity, has died. He was 60.

Maradona's spokesman, Sebastián Sanchi, said he died Wednesday of a heart attack, two weeks after being released from a hospital in Buenos Aires following brain surgery.

The office of Argentina's president said it will decree three days of national mourning, and the Argentine soccer association expressed its sorrow on Twitter.

One of the most famous moments in the history of the sport, the “Hand of God” goal, came when the diminutive Maradona punched the ball into England’s net during the 1986 World Cup quarterfinals. England said the ball went in off of Maradona’s hand, not his head. Maradona himself gave conflicting accounts of what had happened over the years, at one point attributing the goal to divine intervention, to “the hand of God.”

Ahead of his 60th birthday in October, Maradona told France Football magazine that it was his dream to “score another goal against the English, this time with the right hand.”

Maradona also captivated fans around the world over a two-decade career with a bewitching style of play that was all his own.

Although his reputation was tarnished by his addictions and an ill-fated spell in charge of the national team, he remained idolized in soccer-mad Argentina as the “Pibe de Oro” or “Golden Boy.”

“You took us to the top of the world,” Argentine President Alfredo Fernández said on social media. “You made us incredibly happy. You were the greatest of all.”

The No. 10 he wore on his jersey became synonymous with him, as it also had with Pelé, the Brazilian great with whom Maradona was regularly paired as the best of all time.

The Brazilian said in a statement he had lost “a dear friend.”

“There is much more to say, but for now may God give his family strength,” Pelé said. "One day, I hope, we will play soccer together in the sky.”

Bold, fast and utterly unpredictable, Maradona was a master of attack, juggling the ball easily from one foot to the other as he raced upfield. Dodging and weaving with his low center of gravity, he shrugged off countless rivals and often scored with a devastating left foot, his most powerful weapon.

“Everything he was thinking in his head, he made it happen with his feet,” said Salvatore Bagni, who played with Maradona at Italian club Napoli.

A ballooning waistline slowed Maradona’s explosive speed later in his career and by 1991 he was snared in his first doping scandal when he admitted to a cocaine habit that haunted him until he retired in 1997, at 37.

Hospitalized near death in 2000 and again in ’04 for heart problems blamed on cocaine, he later said he overcame the drug problem. Cocaine, he once said famously, had proven to be his “toughest rival.”

But more health problems followed, despite a 2005 gastric bypass that greatly trimmed his weight. Maradona was hospitalized in early 2007 for acute hepatitis that his doctor blamed on excessive drinking and eating.

He made an unlikely return to the national team in 2008 when he was appointed Argentina coach, but after a quarterfinal exit at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he was ousted — ultimately picking up another coaching job with the United Arab Emirates club Al Wasl.

Maradona was the fifth of eight children who grew up in a poor, gritty barrio on the Buenos Aires outskirts where he played a kind of dirt-patch soccer that launched many Argentines to international stardom.

None of them approached Maradona’s fame. In 2001, FIFA named Maradona one of the two greatest in the sport’s history, alongside Pelé.

“Maradona inspires us,” said then-Argentina striker Carlos Tevez, explaining his country’s everyman fascination with Maradona at the 2006 World Cup in Germany. “He’s our idol, and an idol for the people.”

Maradona reaped titles at home and abroad, playing in the early 1980s for Argentinos Juniors and Boca Juniors before moving on to Spanish and Italian clubs. His crowning achievement came at the 1986 World Cup, captaining Argentina in its 3-2 win over West Germany in the final and decisive in a 2-1 victory against England in a feisty quarterfinal match.

Over the protests of England goalkeeper Peter Shilton, the referee let stand a goal by Maradona in which, as he admitted years later, he intentionally hit the ball with his hand in “a bit of mischief.”

But Maradona’s impact wouldn’t be confined to cheating. Four minutes later, he spectacularly weaved past four opponents from midfield to beat Shilton for what FIFA later declared the greatest goal in World Cup history.

Many Argentines saw the match as revenge for their country’s loss to Britain in the 1982 war over the Falkland Islands, which Argentines still claim as “Las Malvinas.”

“It was our way of recovering ‘Las Malvinas,’” Maradona wrote in his 2000 autobiography “I am Diego.”

“It was more than trying to win a game. We said the game had nothing to do with the war. But we knew that Argentines had died there, that they had killed them like birds. And this was our revenge. It was something bigger than us: We were defending our flag.”

It also was vindication for Maradona, who in what he later called “the greatest tragedy” of his career was cut from the squad of the 1978 World Cup — which Argentina won at home — because he was only 17.

Maradona said he was given a soccer ball soon after he could run.

“I was 3 years old and I slept hugging that ball all night,” he said.

At 10, Maradona gained fame by performing at halftime of professional matches, wowing crowds by keeping the ball airborne for minutes with his feet, chest and head. He also made his playing debut with the Argentinos Juniors youth team, leading a squad of mostly 14-year-olds through 136 unbeaten matches.

“To see him play was pure bliss, true stardom,” teammate Carlos Beltran said.

Maradona played from 1976-81 for first division club Argentinos Juniors, then went to Boca Juniors for a year before heading to Barcelona for a world-record $8 million.

In 1984, Barcelona sold him to Napoli, in Italy. He remade its fortunes almost single-handedly, taking it to the 1987 Italian league championship for its first title in 60 years.

A year after losing the 1990 World Cup final to West Germany, Maradona moved to Spanish club Sevilla, but his career was on the decline. He played five matches at Argentine club Newell’s Old Boys in 1994 before returning to Boca from 1995-97 — his final club and closest to his heart.

Drug problems overshadowed his final playing years.

Maradona failed a doping test in 1991 and was banned for 15 months, acknowledging his longtime cocaine addiction. He failed another doping test for stimulants and was thrown out of the 1994 World Cup in the United States.

In retirement, Maradona frequented Boca matches as a raucous one-man cheering section and took part in worldwide charity, sporting and exhibition events. But the already stocky forward quickly gained weight and was clearly short of breath as he huffed through friendly matches.

In 2000, in what doctors said was a brush with death, he was hospitalized in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este with a heart that doctors said was pumping at less than half its capacity. Blood and urine samples turned up traces of cocaine.

After another emergency hospitalization in 2004, Maradona was counseled for drug abuse and in September of that year traveled to Cuba for treatment at Havana’s Center for Mental Health. There he was visited by his friend, Cuban President Fidel Castro.

In Cuba, Maradona took to playing golf and smoking cigars. He frequently praised Castro and Argentine-born revolutionary “Che” Guevara, who fought with Castro in the Cuban revolution — even sporting a tattoo of Guevara on his right arm.

Maradona said he got clean from drugs there and started a new chapter.

In 2005, he underwent gastric bypass in Colombia, shedding nearly 50 kilograms (more than 100 pounds) before appearing as host of a wildly popular Argentine television talk show. On “10’s Night,” Maradona headed around a ball with Pelé, interviewed boxer Mike Tyson and Hollywood celebrities, and taped a lengthy conversation with Castro in Cuba.

In retirement, Maradona also became more outspoken. He sniped frequently at former coaches, players — including Pelé — and the pope. He joined a left-wing protest train outside the Summit of the Americas in 2005, standing alongside Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to denounce the presence of then-President George W. Bush.

His outsider status made it all the more surprising when he was chosen as Argentina coach following Alfio Basile’s resignation.

He won his first three matches but his tactics, selection and attention to detail were all questioned after a 6-1 loss to Bolivia in World Cup qualifying equaled Argentina’s worst-ever margin of defeat.

Victor Hugo Morales, Argentina’s most popular soccer broadcaster, said Maradona will ultimately be remembered for a thrilling style of play that has never been duplicated.

“He has been one of the great artists of my time. Like great masters of music and painting, he has defied our intellect and enriched the human spirit,” Morales said. “Nobody has thrilled me more and left me in such awe as Diego."