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Gustavo Petro, former mayor of Bogotá and aspiring to the Presidency, added to the condolences for the death of Diego Armando Maradona, whom he described as a “genius” and “rebel”.
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The football genius is leaving us. A fighter even against himself. A man from a poor neighborhood who was never ashamed of his people. A rebel. “Petro wrote.
Maradona left. A poor neighborhood fighter who suddenly found fame thanks to his genius in soccer.
He never denied his neighborhood or the social causes of his people. pic.twitter.com/bQIhhCQVKA
– Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) November 25, 2020
The football genius is leaving us. A fighter even against himself. A man from a poor neighborhood who was never ashamed of his people. A rebel. pic.twitter.com/iE3N0zixu4
– Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) November 25, 2020
Maradona was in Bogotá in an exhibition match in favor of peace in the country. He played at the Techo metropolitan stadium in Bogotá before a crowd that cheered him on.
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Media reports recall that Maradona, obviously overweight and with his eternal 10 on his back, was the last to jump onto the grass.
Besieged by the cameras, the ‘Pelusa’ did several warm-up exercises before running to hug his teammates.
Before the kickoff, the then mayor Petro gave the Argentine a reproduction of the famous boat carved by the pre-Hispanic Muisca Indians in gold, one of the city’s best-known icons, the original of which is in the Gold Museum of the capital.
During his speech, Petro recalled that Nelson Mandela also used sport to seek peace between blacks and whites in ‘apartheid’ South Africa and pointed out that Colombia has had “more than 60 years of war” in which not only guerrillas are fighting, soldiers or paramilitaries, but rather “football ended up being an instrument of violence.” “Today we want to make football an instrument of peace, not only in the stadiums but in the neighborhoods,” he stressed.
Then Maradona left the capital amid a hubbub.
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