Last update 26 October, 2023 por Alberto Llopis

Everyone knows Diego Armando Maradona (RIP) pero, Do you know Lalo and Hugo? The brothers Maradona they were more or less lucky, professional footballers. Overshadowed by Diego, It must have been difficult to be called Maradona and want to pursue a career in sport where your brother has been one of the greatest, but the one who most.

That should think the two younger brothers of eternal tens of Argentina. Lalo y Hugo Maradona, the two younger than Diego and who wanted to follow in their older brother's footsteps by carving out a career in soccer. Although as is logical given the magnitude of the idol, his was much more modest.

Diego, Lalo and Hugo, the Maradona brothers

Lalo Maradona promised but it was a fiasco

Raul Maradona, better known as lalo Maradona, nation in 1966 and debuted in Boca after being called up by the Argentina U18, the first and only time the Albiceleste shirt was put. Debuted coinciding with the explosion of Diego, six years older than him, so the expectations around your figure overflowed. Para más inri, I was left-handed like his older brother but the quality of both was far.

The truth is that despite debuting in Boca, only he played three games there. Then he went to try their luck in Spain where it was signed with the Granada. In the Andalusian club he did not stand out too much and at the end of season. He then completed a mediocre race Japan, under clubs Argentina, Venezuela y Glen, where he simply walked surname Maradona.

En 2005, Lalo used the surname Maradona again but this time to participate in the Spanish VIP Big Brother, where some “famosillos”, best known for being family or famous for making some dubious act of being praised, They gathered in a house. Allí, it was known that was going through a horrible time and I was depressed. Certainly it would have been better off doing something else. His son and nephew of Fluff, Diego Maradona Hernan, He was even close to signing for Alzira of the Spanish Third Division.

Hugo Maradona also triumphed in football

A Hugo, the younger brother fared better than Lalo, but also he failed to excel in the world of football. Nacido en 1969 And debuted in 1986, the year of the consecration of the world Fluff. He did it in the place where El Diego became known, con Argentinos Juniors in the same year as his brother Lalo, but three years younger.

Its beginning was promising and played several games in the league and Argentina Libertadores Cup, which he earned him to go to Napoli with his brother Diego under the distinction of being new Maradona, obviously it was not like that. En Naples He not managed to play so he went to Ascoli Italian where He came to face his brother in a Serie A.

It seemed that his career would be at least decent but soon started to go wrong. After passing through Italy, he went to try to Spain as his two brothers, specifically to Rayo Vallecano, where he spent more pain than glory. His career was going down and went to Japan, where his name sold, even if a replica bad. He went through several South American teams and then became coach.

He played much more professionally than his brother Lalo, but as he, his name will detracted over the account. At least Hugo, He did not decide to go on a reality show. Hugo Maradona died at 52 years in 2021, apenas 13 months after Diego's death.

The day the Maradona brothers played together in Granada

It was a distant 18 de noviembre de 1987. Maradona at that time, was number one, The best player in the world and he had just crowned himself as the greatest, leading Argentina to win the World Mexico 1986 and the Scudetto with him Napoli. Granada was then in the Second Division and invested 34 millions of old pesetas in Lalo, the middle brother of the Maradona (the one who years later would appear in a reality show). Diego promised to play a friendly match as a gesture of gratitude to his brother for the opportunity and thus help Granada amortize part of that money.. And so, Diego, Lalo and Hugo, The Maradona brothers played a friendly match with Granada.