Tag: Argentine

Buenos Aires: Argentine football legend Diego Maradona suffers from severe osteoarthritis and needs to undergo knee surgery, one of his physicians has said. “We treated him before the World Cup so he could get through his activities in Russia in the best way,” Maradona’s doctor German Ochoa told Todo Noticias television on Friday, referring to […]

Kolkata: In what is turning out to be a long drawn saga now, Argentine football legend Diego Maradona’s visit to Kolkata was on Thursday postponed for a fourth time due to security issues, organisers said. Maradona, who was supposed to be in the city on October 8 to play the ‘Match for Unity’ against former […]

London: Manchester City’s Argentine striker Sergio Aguero could be out of action for six to eight weeks after fracturing his rib in a car crash in the Netherlands. The 29-year-old Argentine striker was reported to be on his way to the airport in Amsterdam after attending a concert of Colombian singer Maluma. The English Premier […]

Kolkata: Argentine football legend Diego Maradona’s “Match for Unity”, featuring former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly, has been postponed from October 2 to October 5, organisers of the event said in a statement. “A decision to this effect has been reached with the relevant authorities. The match was shifted because of the huge bandobast needed […]

Madrid: Argentine star Leo Messi took his time to get into the game but was the architect of FC Barcelona’s excellent 3-0 win over Juventus to kick off their Champions League campaign. Messi scored the first and third goals on Tuesday and set up Ivan Rakitic for the second on in a game in which Ousmane […]