Friday, October 28, 2016

Maradona's former house turned into museum in Argentina (The Associated Press)

The bed and music records used by soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona decorate his old room on the upper floor of the home where he grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. The home where Maradona lived as a teenager while playing for Argentinos Juniors recently opened to the public, becoming a new shrine for the soccer legend. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

How many sleepless nights did the young man who would become one of soccer's greatest players spend gazing up at the ceiling, imagining dizzying dribbles, spectacular goals and hoisting the World Cup above his head? Maradona, now 55, lived with his family in the two-story house in Buenos Aires' La Paternal neighborhood in the late 1970s, when he was playing with the Argentinos Junior soccer club. Officials say the museum sheds light on a little-known era of his life, before he became an internationally known superstar who led Argentina to victory at the 1986 World Cup tournament.


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