Diego Maradona for the winning goal in the final, ensuring that he would be remembered as one of the greatest names in football history. By the end of the World Cup, Maradona went on to win the Golden Ball as the best player of the tournament by unanimous vote and was widely regarded to have won the World Cup virtually single-handedly, something that he later stated he did not entirely agree with. Zinedine Zidane, watching the 1986 World Cup as a 14 year old, stated Maradona “was on another level”. In a tribute to him, Azteca Stadium authorities built a statue of
Hugo Maradona he moved again to Rapid Vienna, and after that experience he went back to Argentina. He played in the J1 League in 1996 and 1998. After retiring from association football as a player, Maradona lived a relatively quiet life in Argentina. In 2004, Hugo Maradona moved part-time to Puerto Rico, where he became part of that country's association football federation's attempt to invigorate the sport among Puerto Ricans by becoming the head coach of the Puerto Rico Islanders, a team in the American USL First Division. Hugo Maradona Hugo Hernán Maradona (born 9 May 1969), also known as El Turco,