“What player lost the world to cocaine …”

The director of soccer 1/2/3 television channels Alexander Denisov honored the memory of the legendary soccer player Diego Maradona. The Argentine died on November 25 at the age of 60 due to cardiac arrest.

Diego Armando Maradona has passed away. Man is a phenomenon. A phenomenon is something that cannot be explained. Maradona is the type of person that not everything can be explained in terms of his life, actions and everything else. Slumdog Millionaire.

What did he take for the soul of each and every one of the Argentines? We are not Argentines, we can only talk about it from the outside, but we all love Maradona too. I saw Maradona in 1986 at the World Championship. I was 13 years old and since then football has firmly entered my life. There was life until 13 years before the World Cup in Mexico and after.

First of all, we remember that world championship in the phenomenal performance of the USSR national team. After the defeat to Belgium, I cried for the first time after knowing the final result. And the second feeling of the World Cup is, of course, Diego Armando Maradona, his game and what he showed even in a single game, where God and the devil were.

If it was the hand of the hand of God, I don’t know. For the British, this is the hand of the devil. I repeat that Maradona came out of the slums. In the slums in a street fight, all methods are good for victory, both fist and stone in hand. Maradona in this match played not only for the national team, not only for Argentina, he played for the honor of his country. For Maradona, this match was a response to England’s victory over the Falkland Islands. This conflict took place in 1982 and Argentina lost this military conflict to the British. This was his reply.

Where is he an evil genius? This, of course, is your hand. But for people in the slums, in the slums, victory, won at any cost, is still a victory. They don’t know how to do it any other way, they don’t fight any other way. These are the rules. Rules are the absence of rules.

Maradona played for Argentina and played as he saw fit. His second goal is an absolute masterpiece that will go down in history and remain with us forever. This, in short, was Maradona in a particular match on a particular day. This is how we will remember it.

Then there was Naples, and there too it had its own history. What he said goodbye to Maradona in 1986, received an incredible continuation in 1990 at the World Cup. Nobody can do that. And to mark with one hand in the 86 World Cup and call it the hand of God, and in 1990. I don’t know how, the Italy-Argentina semifinal match was held in Naples and only Maradona could ask the fans to support the Argentines in this match. And in this match, Italy did not feel at home. After that, Maradona was hated in Italy, not by the Neapolitans, they still carry him in their arms today, and all of Italy and more did not forgive him.

From such stories, not only did a football hero grow. The football hero is Messi, but the national hero is Maradona. In no way am I disparaging Messi’s role, but if we measure phenomena, then Messi can measure the phenomenon only by the edge of the football field, Maradona’s phenomenon is the scale of the national level. When they say that Messi will catch up with Maradona only after he wins the World Cup, I am deeply confident that this will not happen, with all due respect to Messi. The question is not if you are going to win the World Cup, but how much you go beyond the role of footballer, what do you give people.

Maradona gave the people of the slums the hope that you can become a star and remain a rebel and, most importantly, you can remain yourself until the end. Perhaps this desire to remain himself until the end became critical for him in the story that, sadly, ended. I saw many movies about Maradona, but above all I remember the phrase of the Argentine from the film Kusturica, with what drama he pronounced the words: “You have no idea what kind of player the world has lost to cocaine.” And we really don’t know. Only Maradona of what he is still capable of and what he has not realized, having chosen this path with drugs in his life, “said Denisov.