VOA慢速英語：馬拉多納簽約白俄羅斯球隊擔任俱樂部主席

Diego Maradona Signs with Belarus Football Team

馬拉多納簽約白俄羅斯球隊擔任俱樂部主席

Diego Maradona is widely believed to be one of the best football players ever. He helped lead Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup. But like many former star players of the sport known as soccer in the United States, he has not done as well as a coach.

人們普遍認為馬拉多拉是有史以來最好的足球運動員之一。他幫助阿根廷隊贏得了1986年世界杯的勝利。但是跟很多前足球明星球員一樣，他做教練表現就沒那么好。

Last month, the 57-year-old from Argentina stepped down as coach of a football team in the United Arab Emirates. He also coached the Argentina national team from 2008-2010.

上個月，這位57歲的阿根廷人辭去了阿聯酋一支足球隊的主教練職務。2008年到2010年他還帶過阿根廷國家隊。

Now, the 1986 World Cup champion has moved on to Belarus.

現在，這個1986年世界杯冠軍轉向了白俄羅斯。

This week, Maradona joined the Dynamo Brest football club in the Belarusian Premier League. However, he serves as the club chairman and not as a coach.

本周，馬拉多納加入了白俄羅斯超級聯賽的迪納摩布雷斯特足球俱樂部。然而，他擔任的是俱樂部主席而不是主教練。

In a statement on their website in May, the club said, "Diego Maradona will supervise areas of the club's strategic development and also cooperate with its structural departments, including the Academy of Dynamo Brest."

這家俱樂部今年5月份在網站上發(fā)表聲明稱：“馬拉多納將負責俱樂部戰(zhàn)略發(fā)展領域，并同包括迪納摩布雷斯特學院的基礎部門通力合作。”

Maradona thanked the club in a post on the social media website Instagram. He published a photograph of himself with his new contract, seated on a white leather couch with a Belarusian flag over it.

馬拉多拉在社交媒體網站Instagram上發(fā)文對該俱樂部表示了感謝。他發(fā)布了一張自己坐在白色皮沙發(fā)上簽約新合同的照片，沙發(fā)上掛著一面白俄羅斯國旗。

Dynamo Brest has won the Belarus Cup twice in 2007 and 2017. They also won the country's Super Cup this year. The team placed fourth in last year's national championship.

迪納摩布雷斯特隊在2007年和2017年兩次奪得了白俄羅斯杯冠軍。今年他們還奪得了該國的超級杯冠軍。這支球隊去年在該國的聯賽中排名第四。

Soccer observers were surprised by the former soccer great's decision.

足球評論人士對這位前足球巨星的決定感到驚訝。

Manuel Veth, editor in chief of the Futbolgrad website, expressed his surprise on Twitter.

Futbolgrad網站的主編Manuel Veth在推特上表達了他的驚訝。

Others on social media expressed surprise and happiness over the news.

社交媒體上的其他人也對此消息表示驚訝和高興。

"Maradona is ours!" one user from Brest wrote on Twitter.

一位來自布雷斯特市的用戶在推特上寫道：“馬拉多拉屬于我們啦!”

"Lost for words," Sergey Erm wrote on Facebook.

Sergey Erm在Facebook網站上寫道：”無以言表。“

As a player, Maradona may be most remembered for his "Hand of God" goal against England at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.

作為球員，馬拉多納最讓人銘記的可能是在1986年世界杯對陣英格蘭時的”上帝之手。“

He was thrown out of the 1994 World Cup in the United States after failing a drug test. Drug abuse and weight issues have troubled him since his playing days.

1994年他沒有通過藥檢，被逐出這一年的美國世界杯。自職業(yè)生涯之后，濫用藥物和體重問題就一直困擾著他。

Maradona has befriended controversial leaders as well, including Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. In 2017, Maradona met Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he said "can bring peace to many in this world."

馬拉多納和一些有爭議的領袖成了好友，包括古巴的菲德爾·卡斯特羅(Fidel Castro)和委內瑞拉的烏戈·查韋斯(Hugo Chavez)。 2017年，馬拉多納會見了俄羅斯總統(tǒng)普京，并稱普京”能給這個世界上的很多人帶來和平。“

I'm Jonathan Evans.

喬納森·埃文斯報道。