Argentine football fans gathered at several sites around the country to remember the former Boca Juniors, Barcelona, and Napoli icon, including La Bombonera stadium, the home of his beloved Boca.

Fans paid tribute to soccer star Maradona on his first death anniversary

Turkish police on Wednesday seized 2.5 kilograms of cocaine at Istanbul airport nested in portraits of Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona. The dubious conduct of a 72-year-old German national of Croatian origin who showed up at the air terminal from Colombia caught the attention of Turkey's Directorate of Customs.

Turkish police seizes drug trafficker using Maradona portraits to smuggle cocaine

Former Reuters Cuba correspondent Andrew Cawthorne recalls taking the field with Diego Maradona, who died on Wednesday, in this Reuters story from 2004. As I stepped up to take the penalty in Cuba’s national soccer stadium, a bloated but grinning Diego Maradona wiped and placed the ball, whispered words of advice and clasped his hands in prayer.

My kick-arounds with Maradona in Cuba

Argentine football legend Diego Maradona has commenced his recovery process after ‘successful’ surgery to treat a subdural hematoma, a blood clot on the brain. Maradona, who was admitted to hospital a day earlier, was operated to address the clot, which is often caused by a head injury can put pressure on the brain.

Diego Maradona in recovery after 'successful' brain surgery

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Fans paid tribute to soccer star Maradona on his first death anniversary

Turkish police seizes drug trafficker using Maradona portraits to smuggle cocaine

My kick-arounds with Maradona in Cuba

Diego Maradona in recovery after 'successful' brain surgery