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Diego Maradona’s (Manadonna) second goal in the 1986 World Cup against England is considered one of the most exciting goals in football history.
Known as the “King of the Generation” and one of the greatest players in soccer history, Maradona passed away from cardiac arrest at age 60.
The Argentine Football Association tweeted “the saddest condolences for the death of the legend” and “you will always live in our hearts.”
Diego Maradona (Diego Maradona, Diago Manadona) was born on October 30, 1960 and has a brilliant playing career. He has played for Boca Juvenil in Argentina, Barcelona, Naples and other clubs.
He played 91 games with the Argentina team, scoring 34 goals; led the team to win the 1986 World Cup for Argentina.
After retiring, he has coached many teams, including the Argentine national team.
On October 30 Maradona celebrated his 60th birthday. His biographer Guillem Balague (Guillem Balague) chronicles the ups and downs of this rebel football legend. The following is the full text.
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Maradona led the Argentine team to the 1986 soccer world championship.
Diego Maradona (Diego Maradona, Diago Manadona), the Ronin, genius and contradiction in soccer, celebrated his 60th birthday on Friday (October 30) —— Many of us have ever wondered if this intricate person can live up to the present day.
His life has reached the highest peak and then has fallen into the deepest valley. He has experienced the darkest despair, unable to cope with the exquisite flattery that superstar status and god status bring, and at the same time he seems to be inseparable from all of this.
To understand Diego Maradona, you have to understand the mysterious country of Argentina, this country needs people like Maradona to lead him to greatness and him as Messiah. Everything I think you deserve. You also have to understand that this is a person with all kinds of paradoxes in his life, who made all kinds of mistakes, and then corrected them over and over again, like a tragic epic story about sinking and rebirth.
What is the real Maradona?
Is he the boy named Diego, a talented and mischievous boy and son of the people of the shanty town of Fiorito in Buenos Aires?
Or is the god called Maradona, a myth, a great avenger, the incarnation of that god who brings dreams and aspirations to the people and finally convinced them that Argentina is the best country in the world?
In 1968, coach Francis Cornejo, a youth echelon affiliated with the Argentinos Juniors club called “Little Onion”, came to Fiorito to verify the identity of a child. Years. When he first saw the boy’s training, his first reaction was one of surprise: “He is too young to be eight years old.”
The boy’s mother, Dalma Salvadora Franco, obtained Diego’s birth certificate at the Evita Hospital to confirm his age. Francis’s performance at that time was like discovering a new world. He found a gem to join his team. Since March 1969, this small team has been winning, setting a record of 136 consecutive unbeaten matches.
When he was a teenager, Maradona’s father-friends called him “Chitoro” – he took a ferry to transport cattle from one town to another, and later worked in a chemical factory. The money earned there can barely support a large family in this shanty town.
And your son’s success means that he no longer needs to work, at best he will be a “barbecue king” at home. As the fifth of eight children in the family, Diego had become the backbone of the family finances when he was 15 years old and told his father that he could rest.
From a very young age Diego understood that progress depends on leadership, especially when there are vacancies to fill, no matter how old you are. “We went to play in Brazil,” recalled his teammate Rubén Favret. He was like the whole team at that time, immersed in the light of Maradona, playing friendlies in Argentina and abroad in the middle of the week.
“That was the era of color televisions. We all wanted to roll back one, but our bonuses had yet to be paid. At that moment, Diego, 18, defended everyone and spoke with Consoli, the president of the youth team. ) He said if they don’t pay bonuses, he won’t play. “
After that, after a transfer turn, he went to Boca Juniors (Boca Juniors). Most of this was done by Maradona himself – he rebelled to a journalist close to him – that the negotiations for him to leave the Argentine youth team were at a late stage.
This created the first major media-driven transfer event in history, and he was a rather immature 20-year-old. This transaction has gotten strange. It started as a simple, straightforward $ 10 million acquisition at a high price, then turned into a loan with six Boca players plus cash and an unclear check as collateral at the last minute. Regarding Maradona, nothing is simple.
His next stop was Barcelona, where he never gave his best performance. During the two years he was there, he was out half the time due to various injuries. A terrible shovel by Andoni Goicoechea (Jugocha) from Athletic Club (Bilbao) caused a serious ankle injury. Later, he became the main offender in a group fight in the Copa del Rey final against the Spanish king, resulting in a five-month domestic suspension, and his fate there was doomed.
In fact, he was already on the brink of bankruptcy, so a profitable transfer became inevitable. Furthermore, he has never adapted to life in Catalonia, where he feels like an outsider.
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Naples has won the Italian Serie A twice in history, and won the UEFA Cup once, these were achieved during Maradona’s game for the team.
Two months later, he signed with Napoli (Napoli), where he lived through his most successful and then most expensive days. He came to this noisy and crowded place like an overheated fish tank, a city where the Camorra crime club had been ubiquitous from the start. Diego had since moved out of Fiori. Tuo’s son became a brand called Maradona.
Suddenly, he was no longer that child, but became more involved in his new role, falling in love with Maradona’s identity, enjoying all the glory and accolades, but always knowing that all of this has. How suffocating.
Cocaine became his daily routine and gave him even more excitement than in the past; he chose drugs, which kept him away from cruel reality and he no longer needed to prove that he was the best player in the world.
And in the midst of all this, there was a moment that destined him to be much more than an excellent player. If Argentina had not defeated England in the “Hand of God” match at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico and had not successfully “avenged” the defeat in the Falkland Islands four years ago, what would all this turn into? ?
That game made him an immortal existence in his home country.
One of my most recent projects was writing a biography of Diego, until he retired as a player. Everything else is too private and unbearable to look at. To write this book, I had to visit Fiorito, where it all began. It was early 2020, my last day in Buenos Aires. Nobody wanted to take me there, in the end I managed to convince the taxi driver who picked me up when I arrived, he was very nervous.
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The town of Fiorito is a place known for poverty and violence.
On the way, we were too nervous to say a word. The surrounding houses gradually became small box-shaped sheds, surrounded by irregular and incomplete fences, or simply covered with plants without maintenance. There are many garbage cans stacked outside the ramshackle yard, and children play soccer barefoot.
The streets are getting narrower and narrower and have become bumpy and smoky roads. I guess when Rabbit and Rabbit first came here to check their age, there probably wasn’t much change here.
We turn right. A man was walking in the middle of a narrow path to avoid the rubble piled up on either side. The taxi driver did not stop, hardly lowered his window and asked him apologetically where Diego’s house is. “There, 200 meters away,” he parked the car in front of the first house where Maradona lived, the car’s engine was not off.
It has been overgrown with weeds. On this afternoon, towards the bottom of the grass, you can see a ruined bungalow and the shadows hanging around it. A man in a white vest quickly got up from the rocking chair. “What are you looking for?” “Nothing sir. My friend wants to come see… ”replied the taxi driver, driving the car and quickly drove away. On the left, I can see a clay court with only one goal.
On the way to that place, there is not even a sign explaining the past of this place and the famous person who has lived here. Also, it was completely unknown that anyone wanted to turn this place into a tourist attraction. Nobody wants to show their suffering.
Actually, this used to be Diego’s house; And after the little one grew up, Maradona became the king of soccer, as if he had never lived there in 60 years.
In fact, it is now difficult to find the traces of the former child. Maradona, the head coach of Gimansia de la Plata, a player in the Argentine League, has never been able to leave the big stage.
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The day before his 59th birthday, Maradona took the La Plata Gymnastics Club that he was training to the home game of his old club, el viejo de Newell’s (the old man from Newell’s). At that time, the home team gave him a “throne”. “.
His life as a player after retirement is at least complicated, as everyone knows, he has at least 11 children and the relationship between him and his ex-wife Claudia Villafane (Claudia Villafane) ended in trouble. The court, he and his agent and friend Guillermo Coppola (Guillermo Coppola) are the same.
After leading the national team from 2008 to 2010 and achieving no results, he has been the head coach of several club teams; He was beloved when he coached the Sinaloa Mexican national team in 2018 and 2019. However, his achievements as a manager have never been close to his playing stature.
He said he had quit cocaine three years ago, but the drugs he needs now put him in a state of sedation. He was overweight due to drug addiction and had to undergo multiple operations because he had to play at a time when technical players were not respected or protected, hence his poor health.
Maradona confessed that he did not regret his actions, he always understood that life must be lived to the fullest. Because of this, at the age of 60, he has accumulated a life experience much richer than his age. You may feel that it is a blessing to be alive now …
