In 1985, Maradona was a part of the
Argentina U-16 national team's squad that competed at the U16
South American and
World Championships in China. In Argentina's first round match against
Congo, he scored two goals to help the team to a 4–2 win, which however was one goal short of what Argentina needed to advance past the group stage. During 1987, Hugo Maradona was bought by
Ascoli to play in the Italian Serie A championship. He played just 13 matches without scoring a goal and was sold at the end of the season to
Rayo Vallecano in Spain. During 1989 he moved again, that time to
Rapid Wien, and after that experience he went back to Argentina. In 1992, he moved to Japan to play for the
PJM Futures (renamed as Tosu Futures after changing their hometown in 1994), which was aiming to promote to the newly inaugurated
J.League. After playing for Futures for three seasons, he played for
Fukuoka Blux (known as Avispa Fukuoka since 1996) in the 1995 and 1996 seasons and
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo in the 1997 and 1998 seasons. 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. He then moved back to Italy, working for a number of youth and amateur teams in the
Naples region. ==Personal life and death==