Award to Maradona
NZPA-Reuter Buenos Aires
Diego Maradona, the pocket-sized soccer genius who led Argentina to victory in the World Cup last June, has been named his nation’s sportsman of the year.
The Vice-President, Mr Victor Martinez, handed the Olimpia de Oro award of the Argentine sports writers’ association to Maradona in a ceremony. It is only the third time in 32 years that a soccer star has won the award. Maradona was hailed the world’s greatest player since the Brazilian legend, Pele, after a series of superlative displays at the Mexico World Cup finals.
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Press, 18 December 1986, Page 29
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