Soccer: Maradona, the greatest of all time, has died

He was resurrected several times in his reckless life. This time he did not make it and the world is crying bigger with a ball at his feet, but also with any spherical object.

Michel Platini, someone who has challenged him many times and undoubtedly has great respect for himself, said: “What I do with a ball Maradona does with an orange.” Populist, Peronist, supporter of Castro, follower of Che Guevara, soul of Buenos Aires and heart of Naples. Diego was this and much more, impossible in a few lines to frame one of the few true myths, told in books, movies, television series and magazines. Myth in life, while from Che Guevara to James Dean, others died young, later becoming literary characters.

Being diego

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He has endured all this – because it is not easy to be Diego Armando Maradona – without ever being afraid of the crowd, of his people, who at times overwhelmed him. He was unique in everything. Because in Pelé’s time there weren’t enough images for today’s youth to remember them in depth. While today’s champions, from Messi to Ronaldo, have a marketing direction for every published clip, studied at the table. Maradona no. You can find him playing on a dirt pitch in Acerra risking his legs to help a sick child, or warming up in Stuttgart, before the Uefa Cup final, dribbling with a child. And let yourself be fascinated by seeing that magic and that joy, perfectly marked by “Live is life”. He lived his life deeply, falling and rising without ever being ashamed to show himself. Descending to the underworld of addiction, always rising with dignity, never hiding. In this last and complicated period of his life he triumphed in another of his masterpieces. Ideally, he brought all of his children together, making sure they became siblings. Dalma and Gianinna, with Diego Fernando, Jana and the Neapolitan Diego jr. Different mothers, different characters, a love for a loved and forgiven father. Because he was able to apologize to them for the reckless life. It will be because of this manifest imperfection, in stark contrast to divine perfection in the field, that people worship and venerate him, there are even those who pray to him as a deity.

Sublime Argentina

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He won a fabulous World Cup in 1986, generating literature like no other ground player with the ball. The symbolism of a war against England, for the Malvinas, won with the “Hand of God” and the goal of the century. There, man becomes a hero for eternity, sublimating an Argentina that is experiencing one of the highest moments in its history. And the World Cups won could be three, with the final controversy lost in ’90 to Germany, in Rome, and then that dismissal in ’94 by FIFA: used as a sticker and then downloaded when there is fear of that his Argentina can win. .

the similarity with naples

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No city has ever identified as much as Naples with Diego, resembling itself in all its contradictions. Family and lovers. Beauty and waste. Love and drugs. In the background, the rescue of the last, the fight against the bosses, football and beyond. He no to Juve. Diego lived the city until the end, descending to the underworld, in the darkest areas. But giving the sunniest period. Sometimes he would stop his car at a panoramic bend in Posillipo, enjoy the view over the Gulf and thank God for that luck. He said: “I spent seven years in Naples, but in my heart they count triple because of the bond I have with these wonderful people.” Cui brought two championships, a UEFA Cup, a Super Cup, an Italian Cup and above all the joy of going to Fuorigrotta on Sunday knowing that each time he is witnessing something extraordinary. He also won something in Boca and Barcelona, ​​but nothing comparable to the intensity of what happened in Naples. Today there is a generation of Diego Armando, now more than thirty, who will be able to transmit these feats, who live in all corners of the city.

From mural to altar. Because in Naples and beyond it was also a unit of measurement for a generation. If you did something extraordinary in your life, you were “on Maradona’s level.” If you shot big, they immediately responded, “And who do you think you are? Maradona? Now that he has reached his beloved parents Doña Dalma and Don Diego, we may no longer listen to the right people who have tried and condemned him throughout his life. Now there will be Diego’s story about the hero who inflamed a nation and It made the Neapolitans happy, but it’s all true.