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– I spoke to your ex-wife, Claudia, a while ago. Then I realized that this was not good. I suspected that perhaps it was more serious than what appeared in the media. It was a shock today, but I had a bad feeling. I won’t say I was expecting it, but I was afraid it wasn’t so good, Terje Liverød tells NRK.
On Wednesday, Diego Maradona died of what is said to be cardiac arrest in his own home. The Argentine turned 60 years old.
Liverød says that he has not spoken with the Argentine himself in the last year, but that he has understood that things have not been as they should be based on what he has seen in the television images, among other things.
GOOD FRIENDS: Terje Liverød met Diego Maradona in the early nineties.
– He looks tired in the coaching staff and things like that. Perhaps that is why I began to fear the worst. This has not been the case before. He was probably tired and didn’t have much strength left. It’s a very sad day, says Liverød by phone from Sandefjord.
– He was two different people
Liverød met Diego Maradona in the 1990s, after he started working for German clubs in South America.
– I got to know him very well. You could tell that they were two different people. On the one hand it was Maradona, on the other it was Diego.
– Which way?
– Maradona was the footballer and the legend. But when he got to be himself, he was Diego. With the needs and feelings that an ordinary person has.
– You didn’t like the role you played as Maradona, do you think?
Both and. He didn’t like it, at the same time he was addicted. He really wanted to have his quiet moments and be himself, but if he didn’t get the attention he could get, he was wrong too, says Liverød.
DISCUSSIONS: Diego Maradona and Terje Liverød could discuss everything together.
– I had opinions on most things.
He goes on to say that he could spend up to 20 hours a day with the Argentine legend.
Often only the two of them spoke in private, but Maradona also enjoyed gathering his closest friends and arguing about soccer and other things.
– When I was with people I knew well and could trust, it was very festive. He always had good comments, so he was always entertaining and interesting to be with, says Liverød.
– Besides being funny, he had opinions on most things. He thought a lot about things that you may not have reflected so much on yourself, so there were some experiences aha, he adds.
