“They needed a hero.”Small, quick, strong, hard to knock off the ball and blessed with unsurpassed technique and intelligence, no one could play like Maradona at his peak. A trick played on a large enough scale becomes a miracle. I disagree. They lived in huts made from clay and manure. Then there was the dark side. But unlike them, Maradona was also a player who had a romantic, rags-to-riches backstory that was as alluring as his on-field talents. This was not the case with Diego Maradona. By sight, at least. Then the clouds parted—Maradona made them part, doing something as silly as bouncing an orange—and they were put unexpectedly into contact with that original love.
Even if you look only at World Cups, the number of goals is still over 2,500, scored by the best attacking players in the world over 88 years and 21 tournaments. It’s true that externally, they fall at opposing ends of many of the conceptual spectra through which soccer is normally interpreted. That same week, his lawyer announced that Maradona would voluntarily submit to a DNA test to determine whether he was Santiago Lara’s father. Whatever else you remember about him, remember that. City in flames, no power, no water, days of violent aftershocks. “You don’t know what you missed,” read graffiti on a cemetery wall after the second championship in 1990, when celebrations lasted three nights.
And then the second quote, and I cut off the last sentence or two here, but it’s from Fernando Signorini: “I worried that there was Diego and there was Maradona. Wherever he went, he put it on his nightstand and slept beside it.Or this way. Maradona practised sorcery on the pitch; he played voodoo football. Do something!”Not even old: He’s 52. Hell was In Buenos Aires in the early 1970s, there was a boy named Jorge Cyterszpiler. 1. He got sassy with the crowd. Back to Argentina. Diego pointed the way to the corporatized future, but his roots were in the older, more populist game that he himself was helping to overwrite. Everywhere it played, it had drawn rave reviews. Across that city of steep alleys and crumbling churches, with the shocking blue disc of its bay, his image was ubiquitous, hanging over balconies, pinned up in windows, hung on the walls beside saints. His side played decently but lost, 2-1.
Maradona played pagan football for a pagan city, and that was why it loved him.Then there was the dark side. One night in January 1991, Diego Maradona — the world’s most famous soccer star, then playing for S.S.C. Today’s topic is: An old standby—how many children does Diego Maradona really have? Two minutes later, Racing scored what turned out to be the winning goal. Forehead-heel–shoulder blades.
It was hard to listen to anything Maradona was saying as you watched this strange, slow-motion chase. All you have is panels one and three. He celebrates shamelessly as the ball hits the net. In the 1940s and ’50s, barges floated down the river carrying goods (fruit, cotton, rice) from the interior to the port of Buenos Aires. One night in January 1991, Diego Maradona — the world’s most famous soccer star, then playing for S.S.C. Of course he did. After all, the Maradonas had known cruel exploitation there, as well. ... Now … It’s hard to believe this now, but Argentina had never won a World Cup, had rarely even contended for one. He was pure, radiant promise. My internet-ruined brain sees pretty birds and thinks “Eden,” but life was insecure and dangerous in ways I can barely fathom. And so forth. It’s what I find so preposterously compelling about them. Maradona made his international debut for Argentina 36 years ago this week.