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“It just came to our notice then. I was very surprised by this news, because he was a very warm person, a soccer person, a soccer face,” longtime Lithuanian player and coach Valdas Ivanauskas told BNS on Wednesday. .
“I had to see it, I had to admire it, it’s a great shock,” he added.
Eriko Ovčarenko / 15min nuotr./Valdas Ivanauskas
V. Ivanauskas stated that he had personally met D. Maradonas, his roads had collided with the Brest team “Dynamo” in Brest, Belarus.
“I personally knew Maradon, you may have heard that he had to negotiate with him, but he was invited to the Brest Dynamo, to the presidency. He also had to be at his home in Dubai. There are good memories of him ”, said V. Ivanuskas.
According to him, this is one of the biggest losses in football.
“Clearly this is one of the biggest losses, it hurts that the legends of this time are leaving the world,” he said.
“It was created for soccer”
One of the best soccer players in the country, Armin Narbekov, told BNS that he admired Maradona’s game and said that he was one of the greatest soccer legends.
“It was created for football, here is a gift from God. One of the greatest legends has died in football,” said A. Narbekov.
Photo by Irmantas Gelūnas / Photo of 15min / Presentation moment
“It is actually an unexpected message,” he added.
Narbekov said that he had not met Maradona personally, but that there were such hopes.
“We thought that we would have to face the Olympics when he promised to participate with Argentina, because we were in a subgroup, but the final result was negative,” said one of the best Lithuanian footballers.
The death of the legendary Argentine soccer player D. Maradona was announced on Wednesday, when he turned 60 on October 30.
A soccer legend is reported to have died of a heart attack just two weeks after discharge from a hospital where he underwent surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain.
Maradona, along with Brazilian soccer star Pelé, is considered one of the greatest footballers of all time.
He was captain of the Argentine national team during the 1986 and 1990 World Cups, and also played for the Argentine club Boca Juniors and the Barcelona and Naples clubs.
Recently, Maradona has been the head coach of the Argentine club Gimnasia y Esgrima.
Argentine President Alberto Fernández, in response to Maradona’s death, immediately declared three days of national mourning.
Maradona scored the famous “Hand of God” goal, which he won in the 1986 World Cup quarter-finals with England.
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