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Diego Armando Maradona is dead! His heart stopped at the age of 60. He had recently undergone brain surgery
Despite his excesses of all kinds, Diego Armando Maradona, born in Buenos Aires and just turned 60, will forever remain “their god.”
Number 10, capable of scoring the most beautiful goals in history, like King Pele, after all his only rival, he died! Relatives say that lately nothing motivated him anymore.
Maradona. “Rebel. I was. Scammer. You.” The controversy will continue beyond death
Angel or demon? The controversy never stopped. “Rebel. Hero. Swindler. God”: in his documentary dedicated to Maradona, presented out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019, the British Asif Kapadia recounts the tumultuous years of the Argentine in Naples, which brought him the greatest joy . and they ended up grinding it.
Hailing from the suburbs of Buenos Aires, “El Pibe de oro” (“the golden child”) spent his childhood in the boiler at La Bombonera stadium in La Boca Juniors.
Unrivaled dribbler, Maradona will continue to be the symbol and undisputed captain of the Argentine national team, with whose jersey for 17 years (1977-1994) he scored 50 goals in 115 games, giving his country the second World Cup in history, in 1986.
Photo gallery
The images that define Maradona: with the World Cup trophy in Mexico, in 1986 and the one from when he was taken by the police for cocaine, in 1991
Among the thousands of photographs that accompany the glory, then the decline of Maradona, two images summarize his life. The first dates back to 1986, on the night of the World Cup final, at the mythical Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, when the 1.65m player is just a smile lifting the world trophy. He is at the height of his career.
The goal he scored with his hand against England in the quarterfinals made a whole town shout with joy, who welcomed Maradona’s improvised and brilliant explanation: “The hand of God.”
Football fans will especially remember his second goal against the Englishman himself, after passing the entire rival defense and defeating the goalkeeper, a masterpiece of intuition and sheer talent.
Much less glorious, the second photo dates from April 26, 1991. With a wild, stuttered and unshaven look in his eyes, Maradona leaves his house in Buenos Aires accompanied by two policemen who came to arrest him for possession and use of cocaine. .
It is the beginning of the decline, of scandalous statements, of excesses of all kinds, of returns to the avant-garde lovingly orchestrated by an entourage of sharks. Detox belts will now alternate with relapses.
Detoxification and hospitalizations for drug and alcohol abuse.
After experimenting with drugs in the Chinatown of Barcelona, where he played for the city’s great team (1982-1984), his addiction did not wane in the glory years of Napoli (1984-1991), a club in which they love to win the only ones. champion titles in its history in 1987 and 1990.
However, Maradona paid dearly for this celebrity, whom he never knew how to handle. Filthy with scandals, suspended for two years after a new positive test in 1994, he officially left the world of football on the day he turned 37.
Away from the stadiums, the decline will accelerate. In 2000, he was hospitalized in Punta del Este, a famous seaside resort in Uruguay, for a drug-related heart attack.
He recovers and goes to Cuba for a detox. Four years of travel between Argentina and his second homeland will not be able to definitively cure him of his cocaine addiction. In 2004 he was on the verge of death from a cardiovascular accident, after which he left again for Havana.
The following year, she underwent surgery in Bogotá to reduce her stomach’s ability to absorb and fight obesity, allowing her to lose nearly 50 kilograms.
Argentina wants to believe in him again. At the end of 2005, charming and fit, he broke audience records with his television program “The night number 10”, in which he specially invited his great rival Pelé.
The coach Diego Maradona, between the Argentine National Team and Fujairah
However, Diego began drinking, gained weight, smoked, and suffered a liver crisis, which led him back to the hospital in 2007.
Once again, he recovers and finds work. Appointed coach of the Argentine national team in 2008, he was fired two years later for poor results. He will then coach two teams from the United Arab Emirates, Al Wasl and Fujairah, and in 2018 he will become the president of a Belarusian club, Dinamo Brest.
In the same year, he was appointed coach of the Dorados de Sinaloa of the Mexican second division, where he will leave after eight months, closing the door, due to a penalty not awarded to his team. Maradona in all his splendor …
His last commitment was in Argentina, in Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, writes Agerpres.
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