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A heart attack caused the death of one of the best footballers in history and an incomparable figure in sport.
Diego Maradona is said to have died. That a heart attack left Argentina washed in tears, an orphan of the greatest, Naples completely torn apart and the world without knowing very well what to say or what to do. This is how the impossible happens. At age 60, “El Pibe” got tired and left behind an excessively lived life dedicated to doing the unthinkable with a ball, but also to being a political activist, joining humanitarian causes, speaking out for the underprivileged. and oppressed, to challenge the powerful. Diego was so much … For many people, it was everything.
Being Maradona was so difficult and complex that no one else made it. And many wanted and want. In Argentina, mainly. On soccer fields and outdoors. Maradona was, always was, unintentionally special. Single. He was endowed with a perfect imperfection. Yes, it was also contradictory, rebellious in many cases, conservative in others, but always authentic. He had the right to documentaries and films, to texts written by the best writers, namely the South Americans, to songs, to statues, to murals, to declarations of love, even to a religion, the Maradonian, whose faithful, unlike the the rest. creeds only increased over time. Many of those who played with him say that they never had such a kind, sentimental, so human partner. So, a human god.
The joy of many
Maradona is, therefore, love. Much love, almost sick. Two of the most beautiful stories in football have him as the protagonist. With Argentina, where he became “God” in 1986, he has always been connected. In Naples and with the Neapolitan club, seven seasons have come to make him the greatest idol the region has had, has and possibly will have. It is impossible to have a real idea of the impact of Wednesday. To speak of the best goal of the century is to go back some 34 years and see Maradona play half England and score. To speak of the most political goal in history is to see him go to heaven, against England itself, “head” with his hand and avenge the Argentine defeat in the Malvinas War. To speak of the best performance of a player in any World Cup is to go back to that Mexico of 1986 and confirm how he, almost alone, led Argentina to the last world title.
After that, he dedicated himself to Naples, the city where he was happiest and where he made others happy. With him, the club won the last two championships in its history (1987 and 1990) and the last major international trophy (the UEFA Cup in 1989). There it was common to see him in the poorest neighborhoods, with the people who needed him most. The case was famous in which the club and FIFA denied him to play a game in which the recipe would be to operate on a child; later, he organized it himself in a makeshift field in front of the house where he lived. The only crisis in this relationship, if not for love, occurred in the 1990 World Cup, when Argentina eliminated Italy in San Paolo and some sinners stoned their house.
Diego, the “fluff”, became known in Argentinos Juniors, he also went through Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Seville and Newell’s, but in these cases the declarations of love have never been so heartfelt and deep.
“What planet do you come from?”
It is impossible to try to explain the success, the means, the aura and the personality of Maradona without going back to his origins and going deep into the poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires where he grew up. It was on these dirt streets lined with collapsed houses and without the minimum conditions that he, small and squat, stretched out with a spherical effect. And it was in this life, a constant survival, that was built personally, without electricity and many times without even having access to clean water. Soccer was the refuge, the ball the best friend. And that was a lot for those who had nothing. At the age of 11 he first appeared on television playing the ball. At the age of 15, he said, curiously to the same channel, that he had the dream of playing for the national team and winning a World Cup. Since then, cameras and flashes have been part of their day to day, several times to denounce some controversy, some off-site words, some less compassionate gesture, some objectionable act or some less Catholic behavior. Basically just to apologize and forgive him.
Diego Maradona was so good that he even played against himself. In football, but also in life. And usually he won. It is not even known which planet he came from and now it is still said that he died. As if that were possible.
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