Kolkata, Dec. 7 : Football legend Diego Maradona visited Missionaries of Charity Headquarters ''Mother House'', in Kolkata today.

Maradona said earlier that he had accepted the invitation to come to the city because he had a keen interest in seeing first hand the place where Mother Teresa had lived and worked.

Maradona accompanied by his girl friend was greeted by the Sisters of Missionaries of Charity (MOC) and later taken to Mother Teresa''s Tomb.

A huge crowd had gathered outside the Mother House to catch a glimpse of the football great and the newly appointed coach of the Argentina national football team.

New Delhi - Thousands of football-crazy fans lined the streets of the eastern Indian metropolis Kolkata on Saturday to welcome Diego Maradona, news reports said.

The Argentinian football legend is on a three-day trip to India's football capital to lay the foundation stone of the Indian Football School.

The 48-year-old newly appointed coach of Argentina, who was accompanied by his girlfriend Veronica, seemed pleased though a bit nonplussed by the response of his Indian fans, PTI news agency and NDTV television channel reported.

Kolkata, Dec. 6 : Argentine football star Diego Maradona was an hour late, but thousands waited patiently, cheering, dancing and singing to catch a glimpse of this football hero when he arrived to lay the foundation stone of the football academy at the upcoming gated community complex Eden City at Mahestala in South 24 Parganas District, West Bengal.

Maradona flew by helicopter from his hotel in Kolkata to the site. On his arrival he waved to the crowds and offered air kisses. He also made the typical fighters gestures the Argentinean footballers are known to make on-field.

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Kolkata, Nov. 20 :Football crazy fans of Kolkata will finally see a dream come true. Former Argentine football star Diego Maradona is coming to the city to meet his fans next month.

It does not matter to them that he no longer plays football professionally, as scintillating skills with the ball arestill fresh in the memories of football lovers here.

It is more a matter of ‘sentiment’ for Bengalis. His fans still remember his master play and none can forget the ‘Hand of God” goal that he scored in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final against England.

Glasgow (Scotland), Nov. 19 : New Argentina football coach Diego Maradona is reportedly distraught over fears that his daughter Giannina might suffer a miscarriage.

Giannina, the partner of Argentina’s star striker Sergio Aguero, was rushed to a Madrid hospital with pregnancy complications.

Maradona granted his future son-in-law permission to immediately jet home to be with her and miss tonight’s Hampden clash with Scotland, The Sun reports.