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Germany
“Image”: Goodbye Diego! Maradona in the hand of God. Diego Armando Maradona (60), the best soccer artist in the world, is dead! “
“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”: Between genius and madness. The world of football has to say goodbye to one of its great players: Diego Armando Maradona died at just 60 years old. (…) World champion, serial champion, UEFA Cup winner, national coach, doping sinner, failed TV host and cocaine addict all rolled into one, actually too much for a single life. ” .
“Southgerman’s newspaper”: “The foot of God (…) The most human of the gods. The Fallible Genius: Few people have filled as many fundamentally different chapters in their life as Diego Armando Maradona. For years the Argentine walked between heaven and hell. “
“Der Tagesspiegel”: The divine. Ingenious, crazy, tragic, Diego Maradona was a person of contradictions “.
Italy
“Gazzetta dello Sport”: “Maradona is dead: football mourns the greatest of all”.
“The Republic”: “Diego Armando Maradona had an absolute talent for two things: soccer and self-destruction. For a long time he played both at the same time, then stopped the first and continued the second until the expected final whistle in the sixtieth. “
France
“The team”: “God is dead”
“Release”: “He was a true virtuoso of football: in his best moments, Diego Maradona could make us doubt the rules of physics, even our own death. His dribbling, tricking maneuvers, and slaloms put opponents in fear and terror. (…) When I played soccer, it was supernatural. When he was not in the field, all his human weaknesses were awakened: drugs, alcohol, bulimia, prostitutes and other obsessions overtook his talent too quickly.
Spain
“The vanguard”: “Maradona became a myth after the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, where he won the most important trophy with Argentina with a 3-2 victory in the final against Germany. However, Maradona made the game against England a legend when he dribbled past several Britons from midfield, outscored the goalkeeper and scored a memorable goal that left his fans ecstatic. At the time, Argentina’s shameful defeat to Great Britain in the war for the Malwines (Falkland Islands) was only four years ago. It was also about revenge. “
Switzerland
“Look”: “Soccer is art. No tactics. No one embodied that better than Maradona. Regardless of whether he or Pele or Messi or Ronaldo is the best footballer of all time. The sport was impoverished on November 25, 2020. And the world is in mourning. A great footballer to whom this sport owes an infinite amount. Thanks to people like Maradona, soccer has become the most popular sport in the world. You wish there would be a dance for him in heaven. “
“Berner Zeitung”: “Oh Maradona! The Argentine has led many lives, one as perhaps the most brilliant footballer of all and a host of sickly ones. (…) Perhaps it is his greatest achievement that he has even aged. Not only have you lived many lives, but more importantly, you have lived many unhealthy lives. In Argentina they also say: a cat has seven lives, but in Maradona they stopped counting ”.
Britain
“The Guardian”: “Maradona was a perfect representation of the human capacity to be contradictory, ugly and beautiful at the same time to transmit (…). Without a doubt, talented and genius by the definition of the term, Maradona developed an almost superhuman ability to do with the ball what great artists do with a paintbrush or composers do with music. “
“Daily mail”: “A genius in the plaza, a flawed idol beyond. Diego Maradona emerged from the poverty of the Buenos Aires slums and became one of the greatest of all time, although controversy followed him at every turn.”
United States
“Los Angeles Times”: “Like the other famous Argentine export, tango, Maradona brought style, passion and an undeniable sense of darkness to his sport and his life. Few could match his artistry, skills and creativity on the court, but he could also be a devious and angry player. Off the pitch, he was a wobbly man with a huge appetite, whose excesses often took him to the hospital. “
“Washington Post”: “With the death of Mr. Maradona, the world lost one of its most talented athletes and one of its most tormented souls.”
