At the age of 16 Maradona compete for the first time in international match for Argentina against Hungary on February 27, 1977.
At this time, Maradona found his fame at Napoli, international football where he played for the Albicelestes of the Argentina national football team and took part in four successive FIFA World Cup tournaments, leading Argentina to victory in 1986 and second place in 1990.
World Cup: 1982
Maradona took part in his first World Cup contest in 1982. In the first round, Argentina won the match against Belgium who was defeated in the second round by Brazil and Italy. Maradona played all matches and scored twice against Hungary but was left five minutes before in the game for serious foul play against Brazil.
World Cup: 1986
Being a captain in Argentine national team, Maradona played to get victory in the FIFA World CUP 1986 winning the final match against West Germany in Mexico. Over the whole time of World Cup 1986, Maradona stressed his supremacy and was the most vibrant player of the contest.
World Cup: 1990
Maradona being a captained of Argentina team in the FIFA World Cup 1990, he was much less prevailing than four years earlier due to an ankle injury exaggerated his overall recital. Argentina was almost eradicated in the first round being qualified in third position from their group.
In the quarter final, Argentina played against Yugoslavia ending 0–0 after 120 minutes and Argentina was advanced on penalty kicks, notwithstanding Maradona loosing one of the penalties in the shootout with a pathetic shot at the centre of the goal.
The semifinal was held against the host nation Italy resolving on penalties after a 1-1 draw. At this time Maradona was very much successful to shot and won against Italy. But in the final match, Argentina lost by 1:0 to West Germany for only one goal being a penalty by Andreas Brehme after a contentious foul on Rudi Voller in 85th minute.
World Cup:1994
Maradona played only two games in FIFA World Cup 1994 securing one goal against Greece due to failing a drug test for ephedrine doping. FIFA expelled him from the World Cup 1994 match and Argentina were consequently eradicated in the second round. Meradona also discretely claimed that he had been an agreement with FIFA to allow him to use the drug for minimizing weight before the competition so that he could be able to play in the World Cup match. After that, the world cup could not be possible to be conquered by Argentina team till now.
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