The Sun has just quoted the content of this interview, and has shown the deepest feelings of Maradona, when he wanted “one more day to live with my mother, Doña Tota.”
Maradona added: “But today (October 30), it is in the past, it cannot be done. I’m fine at the moment, and my most regret is that I no longer have my parents in the world. I know, from heaven my mother is very proud of me and is very happy.
Maradona’s legendary mother, Doña Tota died at age 81 in 2011, and her father, Diego Snr, passed away at age 87 in 2015. However, it is Doña Tota who has the greatest influence on the thought and subsequent career of Maradona, always supportive and helpful with the Argentine soccer legend.
Then, in an interview with Clarín, Maradona said: “Football gave me everything, and more than I imagined. I couldn’t ask for anything more. But I have one wish and always, one more day to be with (Dona) Tota ”.
Maradona (center) with his mother and father in the 1980s
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He was also confident in his health: “If I don’t have an addiction, I can play for many more years. However, it is all over. I’m fine right now and I hope the world has a vaccine against the disease to get life back to normal.
Also in this interview is his last, the legend Maradona also confided about the residence of the superstar Lionel Messi in the Barça club. “I know this is going to end badly, and Leo (Lionel Messi) is gone,” he said. They (Barcelona) treated me the same way in the past.
In addition, Maradona is eager to return to the work of coach of the Gimnasia de La Plata club, where he is the main coach, because he fears that his absence will be too long, the team’s fans will forget him.
In the last interview, Maradona mentioned Messi, his heir and also a student at the 2010 World Cup.
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At the end of September, Mr. Maradona, after his passage through the anti-epidemic Covid-19 isolation, made his first public appearance when he took to the field to watch the Gimnasia de La Plata club play in a friendly manner and received the passionate support of as many fans as ever .
This touched him very much and added: “I will always be grateful to the fans, their love for me never ends. Every day that passed, they always made me go by surprise after surprise. I will never forget it, and especially when I return to Argentine football ”.
However, after the October 30 interview with many promises, just a few days after Maradona was admitted to the hospital for a checkup for feeling tired, before discovering that a meningeal hematoma could be caused by a fall or impact. but I don’t know, it requires urgent surgery. After a successful surgery, he was on the mend, but on November 25, the world soccer legend died suddenly due to a heart attack in his sleep.
