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Diego Maradona has died
- paganel 6y agoRIP :( I'm playing this now in his memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0KCbZ7L17I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0KCbZ7L17I . He's the greatest footballer that I had the chance to watch, and I consider myself lucky for that. Probably nobody will come again to that level, the game and the spirit of the game has changed too much for that to happen.
- cambalache 6y agoFor many personal reasons I wont mention here Maradona was a real source of joy for me (something sadly not too common in life). Descansa en paz Dieguito querido, nunca se te escapo la tortuga.
- santiagobasulto 6y agoI’m from Argentina, this is a big deal for us. But I’d have never expected to see it in the front page of HN.
- pvarangot 6y agoAnd I also didn't expect everyone abroad to respect Diego so much in this day and age. I think with his passing I'm getting to experience something that my generation has never experienced before, which is a glimpse into how the international community respects a part of Argentinian culture that is not grilled meat or Patagonia. My heart is also kinda warmed by the fact he left us the same day Fidel did.
- toyg 6y agoMaybe it’s because I’m Italian, but Patagonia and grilled meat are honestly the last things I think about when I think Argentina, probably because I’ve sadly not been there yet. To me your country looks like long-haired footballers, Borges, Soriano, tango, Buenos Aires, desaparecidos, a president who looked like the guy on Fantasy Island (Menem), and all those magnificent comicbook artists the country somehow produced (Quino, Josè Munoz, Carlos Sampayo, Horacio Altuna, Alberto Salinas, Lucho Olivera, the “adopted” Robin Wood...). It’s still very much a stereotype, but definitely something I can’t really associate to wilderness.
- I-M-S 6y agoMy first association is El Eternauta. And then Maradonna.
- mavelikara 6y agoYou underestimate the love people across the world have for Argentina's football team. I am from Kerala, India, and here is an article that might help paint the picture: https://bit.ly/33iRqnp https://bit.ly/33iRqnp . Also, among many people who are not football fans, Maradona and Pele are the two names they'd know. Check out the crowds at this public event in India when Maradona visited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIdwEZ31tTg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIdwEZ31tTg RIP.
- codegeek 6y agoMaradona was very popular in many countries growing up in the 80s. I only heard of Argentina as a kid when I heard of Maradona :)
- esalman 6y agoI'm from Bangladesh and he is as big a deal for us.
- nahuel0x 6y agocorrection: the greatest footballer of all time.
- s_dev 6y agoWhat about Pelé?
- bulutsuzku 6y agoHe played in a time where Soccer was almost amateur. See the criminal fouls to Maradona in the 80's. In comparison Pele was treated like a sweet flower.
- ffpip 6y agoFYI, all your comments are dead. They are hidden
- bulutsuzku 6y agoHow did you replied then?
- ffpip 6y agoI have turned on 'showdead' in my settings. Even this specific comment of yours was dead. I had to vouch for it to reply to you. Somebody/bot is flagging all your comments instantly. email the mods hn@ycombinator.com to ask them to remove this. Seems like none of your comments are against the rules
- prmph 6y agoI really don’t think you know what you are talking about. Pele played at a time when football was even tougher and harder tackling than in Maradona’s time. The fouling of Pele is what caused yellow/red cards to be introduced.
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- WhyNotHugo 6y agoWhile a great football player, also serial abuser of minors. He had sex [and offspring] with many girls between 10 and 12. Even took pictures on the spot with some of them. Argentina is have a three day duel for this guy, portrayed as a hero, with honorific status. As someone born in Argentina, I can't help feeling disgust and shame on this.
- gadders 6y agoAnd there was the Hand of God in the '86 World Cup.
- bulutsuzku 6y agoAnd there was the Best Goal in the Soccer History in the same match... to the country which invented the Soccer, I think England still cry for this, they never recovered.
- bzb6 6y agoMaradona was an excellent football player without a doubt but all he’s done for decades now is getting a renown for being a cocaine addict, a communist, and a pederast. As per the rest of your comment I love your country but you have some very deep seated problems and having a three day duel for this piece of shit shows them very well.
- WhyNotHugo 6y ago> I love your country but you have some very deep seated problems and having a three day duel for this piece of shit shows them very well. Couldn't agree more.
- bulutsuzku 6y agoIt happens everywhere. It doesn't mean 50% of the country agrees with their decision. Populists politics use anything in hand to survive, any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.
- whoisjuan 6y agoMaradona’s documentary on HBO is excellent and really captures how incredibly far his talent was. Not just an outlier. Completely out of this world. He basically won a World Cup by himself. Really recommend it to anyone interested.
- bulutsuzku 6y agoActually he did a great job with the Argentina's coach at that time: Carlos Bilardo. He basically revolutionized Soccer and only who really understand tactics knows what he really did.
- akmarinov 6y agoHe was 60? I thought he was a lot older. RIP
- scurvy 6y agoHe was like 102 in cocaine years.
- aloukissas 6y agoImagine if we had this silly VAR technology in the 80s. Then one of the most iconic moments in football history (hand of god) would have been reviewed and dismissed. RIP Diegito
- s_dev 6y agoPretty sure the British football premiership only adopted it recently. In rugby VAR has been widely adopted for a long time.
- soneca 6y agoProbably for the better, as we could all focus on the other goal that he scored that match.
- mhh__ 6y agoThe issue is the way it's being applied not the technology itself. If the hand of god was gone we'd just talk about the other goal he scored instead
- bulutsuzku 6y agoCorrection: The greatest footballer of all time.
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- corpMaverick 6y agoI was not really a fan and I disagreed with him on his political postures. But this is a big deal in Latin america. It is hard not to get excited listening to this song. More like a beautiful poem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5uarbz-jBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5uarbz-jBA He brought hope and excitement to people who had nothing else going on. Edit:spelling
- second--shift 6y agodescance en paz, la mano de Dios
- w0mbat 6y agoLet’s all give him a big hand.
- rasengan 6y agoHe has the hand of God [1] ;) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ccNkksrfls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ccNkksrfls
- minkeymaniac 6y agohe had heavenly feet... and godly hands......
- jensblond 6y agoSo sad :-(
- logronoide 6y agoAn incredible talent on the pitch, a winner and a warrior. He never gave up when soccer was much more permissive and violent. He touched the ball with his left foot as an angel. A pity he hurt himself abusing of drugs all his life. ¡Eterno, pibe!
- RoutinePlayer 6y agoEngland is about to declare a national holiday j/k of course RIP Diego
- dzonga 6y agoto see how legendary this man was, you just have to watch Maradona, the HBO documentary. which is also arguably one of the best sports documentaries. He was a polarizing figure no doubt, but this man won Argentina the world cup single-handed. ahh see the pun. he also made napoli a backwater team into the powerhouse it is today. n remember most of the matches he won, he was high on coke i.e not playing at his full potential.
- lowdose 6y ago> n remember most of the matches he won, he was high on coke i.e not playing at his full potential. That's a big assumption. I bet without coke he wouldn't have dared to do his hand of god act.
- zekrioca 6y agoYou clearly lack the political context of England/UK and Argentina, and what that goal represented to Argentinians. With or without coke, that was a moment of liberation, and he alone carried the Argentinean team on his shoulders in 1986 when they won the World Cup. One needs more than coke to do what he did in 1986. One needs to be extraordinarily gifted, only for the likes of Pele, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Garrincha, Messi, Zico, Cruyff, and Maradona could ever do.
- pyman 6y agoIt was more a feeling of revenge than liberation. In 1982 my family and the entire country was at war with an Argentinean dictator, when suddenly Margaret Tatcher, an unpopular Prime Minister at that time, instead of de-escalating the situation with the Argentine dictator decided to go to war with a country that was already at war and fighting for democracy. For that reason, Argentine people felt betrayed by England. Both countries were close friends for more than 100 years, since 1810 when Britain and Argentina signed a treaty of friendship proposed by Woodbine Parish. His cousin, John P. Robertson, was a good friend of General San Martin. Argentina and England had 2 enemies in common: Spain and France. Both countries were allies until the beginning of world war 2, when General Perón became a good friend of Mussolini. The dictators and facists Videla a Galtieri went to war with the UK, US and NATO. In 1982 there was no democracy in Argentina, and no diplomats to stop the war. There was no Congress and Senate at that time, making the war illegal. The fact that Maradona scored an "illegal" goal against England was seen as a revenge for loosing a war that no one wanted to fight. No one except Tatcher.
- artur_makly 6y agoThere will never be another like him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA5fH7Xw9wI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA5fH7Xw9wI
- na85 6y agoUnpopular opinion: He was a gifted footballer but was a total piece of shit in nearly all other aspects of life including abusing women and minors, to say nothing of his complete lack of sportsmanship on the pitch. I hate that this guy gets lionized. To me it just underlines everything wrong with football.
- Grustaf 6y agoI don’t think many people will claim that he was a good person. He’s lionized for his football playing, like Messi.
- pelasaco 6y agoHe’s lionized for his political stance and rockstar like way of life too.
- the_af 6y agoA lot of people in my country also like/dislike him for his political opinions. A lot of people do claim he was a good person. Others hated him or mocked him. He had transcended football.
- mrleinad 6y agoYeah, they prefer someone who doesn't speak his mind, like Messi. That way they can enjoy the footballer without having to deal with any contradictions that person might have.
- spidersouris 6y agoI fail to see how "lionizing" someone for their performance or their actions in a specific domain undermines all the wrongs one has done in their life. Sure, perhaps most people will only remember him as a great footballer without talking about the wrong actions he has done during his life, but a) most of them wouldn't have cared anyway and b) one can still see both sides of the coin and admit one's wrongdoing despite one's good performance or results. I'm far from being a connoisseur about football and sports in general though, so I don't exactly know what this guy has done, but this can be applied to any man on this Earth.
- aazaa 6y agoNot sure why this is here (don't follow soccer and never heard of Maradona), but the "Hand of God" incident is an entertaining read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_hand_of_God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_hand_of_God and watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ccNkksrfls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ccNkksrfls On second thought, this was probably a hack of sorts.
- mellosouls 6y agoIt's presumably here because HN is not parochial and Maradona was a Michael Jordan level global superstar, with some claiming him as the greatest ever at his sport.
- pelasaco 6y agoafter Pele, in so many aspects (including soccer)
- usrusr 6y agoWell, in direct comparison Pelé seems a bit deficient in tragic dark sides. That makes him greater in many ways, but also less of an attention magnet. On the list of Roman emperors people can name, Nero will rank quite close to the top.
- pelasaco 6y agohe had some too https://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-10-18/peles-daughter-dies/1289066 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-10-18/peles-daughter-dies/1... But the parallel with Nero somehow is quite on point. They had, surprisingly, many similarities.
- msla 6y ago> Michael Jordan Who wouldn't belong here, either.
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- fishtacos 6y agoThis is sad. Maradona was a distinct part of my childhood growing up in Eastern Europe where soccer heroes were practically worshipped. Following Pelé, of course. A trip down memory lane... RiP. His best goals (according to YT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XegYZ8y3xMY&ab_channel=FIFATV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XegYZ8y3xMY&ab_channel=FIFAT...
- elvis70 6y agoSame thing in Western Europe ;-)
- zuppy 6y agoI remember the Cincin bubble gum surprises with Maradona, Van Basten, Gullit https://colectionaruldesurprize.wordpress.com/03-cincin/ https://colectionaruldesurprize.wordpress.com/03-cincin/ Everybody was collecting them. What a shame he wasted such an amazing talent with drugs. I’m a little sad that one of my childhood heroes is gone. Hasta siempre, Diego Armando Maradona!
- fishtacos 6y agoMy collectables were action hero cards (Van Damme doing splits, Schwarzenegger in Predator, Rocky flexing, etc) we got through random gum packages or some other little candy packing (I was maybe 9-10 in early 90s when this was popular, so not super sure). We traded and collected and I'm pretty sure I have the whole 50 cards or so still in a little baggie somewhere in storage. I also remember Cincin... so perhaps that was where I got them too. Cheers! (from a transplant from Albania) EDIT: Looking at those series of pics you linked to, I can say I do remember them. My friends collected them. It was the biggest thing happening in our lives.
- lordnacho 6y agoBest commentary of that goal is in Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wVho3I0NtU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wVho3I0NtU The ease with which he played, and lived, was the stuff of legend. There's something tragic in it as well, since it probably contributed to his early passing.
- mrleinad 6y agoEnglish subs here: https://twitter.com/MirrorFootball/status/1331638132765323273 https://twitter.com/MirrorFootball/status/133163813276532327...
- mellosouls 6y agoA love/hate relationship with the English who I seem to remember voted the infamous Hand of God goal the worst, and the same match's blistering run and finish against them the best ever. Incredible talent, flawed man.
- squarefoot 6y agoThat match was played in 1986, just 4 years after the Falklands short war between Argentina and England, and it was the first time the two national teams met after that war. For those involved it meant a lot more than a football match. RIP Dieguito. I saw him at least a couple times live at the stadium in the 80s; he was out of this world.
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- trianglem 6y agoI don’t know much about soccer from that era, why was he a flawed man?
- goshx 6y agohttps://nypost.com/2019/09/26/how-cocaine-fame-and-the-mafia-destroyed-diego-maradona/ https://nypost.com/2019/09/26/how-cocaine-fame-and-the-mafia...
- bulutsuzku 6y agoEngland should overcome this. Argentina was stolen the World Cup Final in 1990 and 2014 and you don't see them crying all over the Internet
- PaulRobinson 6y agoI have a team mate from Argentina here in London. We were talking about Maradona a few weeks back. I thought when talking about him that if he showed up in London, there would be a mob around him, but it would be 50% people wanting his signature and selfies, and the other 50% would want to give him a piece of their mind about the Hand of God goal. He probably wouldn't have been safe in London. As a Man City supporter, I know my estimation of Aguero was dinted a little when I found out he was Maradona's son-in-law. Why? I remember that handball goal (it was not "the hand of god", it was deliberate handball), as being the moment in my childhood that I realised I could not trust some adults. Some adults - it became clear to me then - were dishonest. Even if they were brilliant, talented and otherwise seemingly worthy of respect, they were capable of cheating and not caring. To a young child (I was approaching my 8th birthday at the time), that was shocking to the core, and I cried, not just at England losing the game but that he - and an entire team, an entire country of adults - had cheated and felt fine with it. Part of my childhood ended with that goal. I know I'm not alone. I would have been in the group wanting a selfie though.
- gus_massa 6y agoIn case someone has not seen the second goal against England in 1986 Original footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wVho3I0NtU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wVho3I0NtU An interview many years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOz2uGMTA2w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOz2uGMTA2w
- mongol 6y agoThis goal was incredible, but with many years passed, it has faded in significance for me. Not sure why, if it is because the game has evolved, or I have seen many other great goals, or something else. But probably because I think the defense was too passive. This goal would not be done today, most probably.
- arrosenberg 6y agoLionel Messi, same goal, 2004 (or thereabouts) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAehMNYw0ig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAehMNYw0ig
- colourgarden 6y ago2007
- topicseed 6y agoWish I was in a random bar in Barcelona when that happened. Always a huge pleasure to rewatch it.
- howlgarnish 6y agoBarcelona? Or Buenos Aires?
- EugeneOZ 6y agoMessi is Barcelona FC player.
- vermontdevil 6y ago“ If I was in a white dress at a wedding and a muddy ball arrived... I would stop it from the chest, without thinking about it”. Diego.
- pyman 6y agoI'm surprised there are no pictures of Maradona in a white 3XL wedding dress.
- moneywoes 6y agoRip.
- grezql 6y agoRIP - Best football player of all time
- pelasaco 6y agoafter Pele you mean.
- goshx 6y ago(in Argentina)
- Panoramix 6y agoNot really. Consensus top 3 is Maradona, with usually Messi and the third more controversial usually goes to one of the Ronaldos or Cruyff.
- oblio 6y agoUmmm... not really. Pelé has some insane stats. Games played, goals scored, trophies won, including 3(!) World Cups. Almost nobody puts Pelé lower than 3. And Cruyff had a huge influence but he's usually top 10 or so.
- adonese 6y agoSome would argue pele only played in south america, it's still hard to skip the three world cups though. But it seems football is getting more difficult and more mechanic over time, that is why I consider messi as a glitch
- pelasaco 6y agoyes, well you cannot compare players from different times. In his time Pele was the best player in the World. In 1958, he was 17 and was the first black player in the Brazilian national team. There was some heat because of that. He went there and destroyed the prejudice and the adversaries. In the 1970, he wasn't playing anymore, but he did a comeback, getting in shape and winning the World Cup in Mexico with an outstanding performance. Was Maradona the best of his time? I don't agree. He was the best in his prime time, but it was no longer than 4-6 years. In the 80s, 90s we had definitely other players which were as good as him or better (depending on the time period): Socrates, Zico, Lothar Matthaus, Michel Platini, Hugo Sanchez,Ruud Gullit, its a long list. In the 90s even longer.
- brudgers 6y agoDescribe a time you hacked a non-computer system It wasn’t just a big match. Just four years after the war in the south Atlantic, it was perhaps the biggest international match in the brief history of international matches.
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- sdmw 6y agoWhy is this on HN........
- ColinWright 6y agoTaking your question at face value ... The community here on HN has, at its core, a common interest in technology and startups. That then implies that many have an interest in programming and business. But not all. So people here do have a wide range of interests, and others will share those non-core interests. Sometimes they strike a chord, sometimes they don't. But that's the way communities work. There's potentially a lot to discuss about Maradona. The exquisite talent, marred by the personal life and "The Incident" with the "Hand of God", and there are parallels there with programmers who are amazingly skilled, and yet complete jerks to the people they work with. So there are reasons why this is not entirely out of place. Finally, if this wasn't an honest question, and you actually believe that the submission does not belong here, then I give you this from the guidelines[0]: > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. ... If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- mrleinad 6y agoThe official Queen twitter account posted this beautiful photo. It speaks volumes: https://twitter.com/QueenWillRock/status/1331645705392451590 https://twitter.com/QueenWillRock/status/1331645705392451590
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- jonwinstanley 6y agoGenuinely thought HRH had posted a Maradona message
- 29athrowaway 6y agoIn Argentina there is a religion where Maradona is seen as a prophet, the Maradonian Church. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_Maradoniana https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_Maradoniana This is a video about it by Vice: https://youtu.be/knRo_1xrJ2A https://youtu.be/knRo_1xrJ2A They perform baptisms and marriages. Members usually use Diego for their children's first or middle names. They also spell "god" as "d10s" (dios + 10, where 10 is Diego's jersey number). There are many songs dedicated to him, such as https://youtu.be/EAk-l1VHzBw https://youtu.be/EAk-l1VHzBw ...and a museum, I think. Maradona's immortal play is "el gol del siglo": https://youtu.be/jOz2uGMTA2w https://youtu.be/jOz2uGMTA2w The atmosphere during that match was pretty tense since Argentina and England had an armed conflict 4 years prior, the Falklands War.
- Bluestein 6y agoThe parody "Church of Maradona" (yes, this is a thing!), or Maradonian Church might mark today as a black day, year 60 DD "Después de Diego" or "after Diego" ... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_Maradoniana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_Maradoniana Poor Maradona holds the record for suffering the most number of fouls in a World Cup – 53, during the 1986 World Cup. He has a tattoo of Che Guevara on his arm, and a portrait of Fidel Castro tattooed on his left leg.- Controversial figure, certainly to be missed by many ... He had complete mastery of the ball. When Maradona ran with the ball or dribbled through the defence, he seemed to have the ball tied to his boots. Discovered at the age of 8, the scouts asked for an ID, thinking they were being had. He played like an adult. Like very few adults, even then.- Here's someone born with a special gift, of which he gave freely - and, expensively - twice the record holder for the most expensive transfer ever ... A life well lived. RIP.-
- andrepd 6y agoA good cue to remember Barcelona's scout report of Maradona: https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1orjm7/scouting_report_of_a_17_year_old_diego_maradona/ https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1orjm7/scouting_rep...
- markosaric 6y agoRIP Maradona! The greatest footballer of all time! Napoli is crying :(
- Daishiman 6y agoI'll represent the other, unpopular side: the man did as much if not more damage than all the glory he had. As a footballer his career was finished pretty much 30 years ago. He left the '94 World Cup testing positive for drugs in what was a national embarrassment. His career as a manager was a disaster that existed purely off his prior fame. It's an embarrassment that we are unable to move on past things that happened four decades ago. As a human being, he lacked morals, never recognized his uncountable illegitimate children, had no care for his body or self beyond the most infantile of desires, and his irrelevant words on a myriad topics were taken as gospel in an astounding display of hypocrisy. I did not live to see his plays in the 80s. I remember his infamy of the 90s, along with the infamy of many, many public figures of Argentina of that time (along with the coked-up failure of a president Menem and the parade of similarly dubious public figures, all good friends of his too). I remember being in elementary and my classmates emulating, respecting and excusing the horrible aspects of his character, and I certainly remember how that made dents in the morals of a generation that excused cheating as long as it got results done. Having later on lived in more developed countries where that stuff just didn't fly, I'll go out on a limb and ascribe at least part of the failures of Latin America to these kinds of attitudes.
- pritovido 6y agoI agree with you. I was in Spain, and Maradona played there while he was not yet the shadow of himself that became later. Lots of people admired this man but when he started doing stupid things like being totally drunk and stoned on public, most people stopped admiring him in all places but in Argentina. I traveled to places like Bariloche and specially Buenos Aires for a very sort time,a month or so, and I could not understand almost the deity that such a bad example represented there. But then an Argentinian friend explained it to me: You do not understand. It was because of the Malvinas, the English, Maradona represented something like a general that won over the same that defeated and humiliated us and so on... And then it made sense. I had not made the connection before that. And yes I agree with you that South America in general follows terrible role models. Places like Colombia or Venezuela look like paradise and are extremely wealthy but then the environment is Hell. It is very interesting that Argentina and Chile are somewhat like the US and Europe but in reverse, the more to the South you go, the more serious people are, only that there is less and less people and land there to become significant.
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- wslh 6y agoIn the context of HN don't forget the game Peter Shilton's Handball Maradona: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shilton%27s_Handball_Maradona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shilton%27s_Handball_Mar...
- blasrodri 6y agoThe best.
- edwardor 6y agoThis 2019 documentary about Maradona's time playing for Napoli is well worth watching. It has some incredible archival footage — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Maradona_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Maradona_(film)
- riffraff 6y agoit is hard to overstate how important Maradona was and still is for people in Naples. To this day you can see representations of him all over the city, he was almost as revered as a local Saint, possibly more. It's a pity the city is "off" due to COVID19, I would expect some big celebrations.
- globuous 6y agoHe'll be missed, what a wonderful player !! Make sure to watch this video where Manu chao serenades him by surprise: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c9tTjR4zY_c https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c9tTjR4zY_c ;)
- fold_left 6y agoThis is joyous, Maradona: Life is Life https://youtu.be/4vashrNoXTE https://youtu.be/4vashrNoXTE
- seshagiric 6y agoA true legend, I clearly remember childhood days when every kid in my neighborhood wanted to be Maradona (and this was in India, where we did not even play football that much!!).
- emilsedgh 6y agoI strongly suggest everyone interested in Maradona, Football, and generally how sports can affect a society to watch HBO's documentary on Maradona [0] [0] https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/diego-maradona https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/diego-maradona
- BillyButcher 6y agoRest in peace. One of the greatest ever.
- jmmag 6y agoGiven the historical context, we will never see something similar to what this man did. God level skills proved during the '86 World Cup (and '90), Napoli and the Argentine league. Farewell, Diego.
- andy_ppp 6y agoLive is Life: https://youtu.be/4vashrNoXTE https://youtu.be/4vashrNoXTE The atmosphere in the crowd and the skills without his boots tied up.
- toyg 6y agoAn away game. Full house. Very important European game. And this guy is just dancing around while juggling a ball in the air, untied boots, singing the song, feeling good. Jurgen Klinsmann, who was playing for the home team that day, said a few of his teammates stopped warming up to watch him. I reckon the sight of this crazy little fella just psyched to dance and play ball, off-handedly showing more skills than most players on the planet will ever have, must have sowed quite a few seeds of doubt in Bayern’s players.
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- edgarvaldes 6y agoIf you can read in Spanish, I recommend you the blog post "10.6 segundos" from Hernán Casciari, from 2013. https://hernancasciari.com/blog/10_6_segundos https://hernancasciari.com/blog/10_6_segundos
- severine 6y agoEnglish translation: https://medium.com/@casciari/one-hundred-views-of-diego-maradona-bcab9fcf699 https://medium.com/@casciari/one-hundred-views-of-diego-mara... ¡Gracias Diego!
- DevKoala 6y agoAt his peak, this man achieved the undisputed best performances by a football player ever seen. Truly a genius with a never surrender mentality.
- fredguth 6y agoLots of respect for someone so worshiped by his geniality in the pitch that there is literally a Maradonian church.
- spicyramen 6y agoI have followed and played football since I was born. I was lucky to be in Mexico 1986 and have seen the evolution of football. Today the sport have evolved so much, diets, rules, salaries, marketing, tactics with this in mind players are less passionate about their teams and care more about the looks and salaries, this clearly affects how they perform in the field. When Maradona led Argentina in a World Cup against a very very strong English team, and score that goal is something that no matter if you are argentinian or not, this can't be quantified, this passion is not numbers. Here we are analytical and love numbers. Messi in numbers is better, but the feeling and the emotions you generate in a crowd is what makes Maradona special. He caused that in Napoli, Argentina, Mexico, anywhere, he is D10S
- ToFab123 6y agoI face palmed when I saw Pele say "We will play soccer together in heaven ". Pele was he even a good soccer player. Nobody knows. He never played in a European club or tournament against and with the world's best players. He choose to spend he entire career playing in the USA. The US, at that time, was not big into soccer. Had no good players or soccer environment. They had a lot of amateurs and showmanship and if you were just a little above the performance and skills on an average European player you could easily run around the corner with the American player and that was what Pele did. There exist no proof that he was particlar good a playing soccer. He might have been but your guess is as good as mine but his marketing skills must have been amazing. He soccer skills probably not so much. Maradona on the other hand. He was an amazing player. RIP
- prmph 6y agoIn case you're wondering, you're being downvoted because your comment is full of factual errors.
- williamsharris 6y agoRIP. I thought he got better recently.
- ejanus 6y agoThe real spirit of soccer. I was his fan and I would miss him so much. But the game continues that is the only way to immortalize him. If players are allowed to play in Europe, fans that are under 35 years should be allowed inside the stadiums. Life must continue, empty stadiums turn fields to graveyards.
- jmmag 6y agoGod is dead.
- manuu80 6y agoLive footage of his wake https://youtu.be/j9USSsGpfhA https://youtu.be/j9USSsGpfhA