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Argentine superstar Diego Armando Maradona applauds after Napoli’s team won their first Italian league name in Naples, Italy, on 10 May 1987.
Massimo Sambucetti, File / AP
Diego Maradona’s two top outstanding purposes have been heard around the world due to his elegance and cunning, one the ultimate productive purpose in World Cup history, the other the greatest deception, and for his political symbolism.
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Many thought Maradona, who died after a center attack on November 25 at the age of 60, was the greatest football player of all time. Cup. Only 4 years after Argentina’s defeat to the United Kingdom in the Falkland Islands war, known as the Falkland Islands in Spanish, in which some 900 more people died.
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In his autobiography, Maradona claimed that defeating the English national team on the court had been a form of revenge for the war that took place three hundred miles east of Argentina’s Atlantic coast.
“It’s like winning a country, not just a football team. “
“It was like beating a country, not just a football team,” Maradona wrote. “In a way, we blamed the English players for everything that had happened, for all the pain the Argentines had experienced. I know it sounds crazy, though, that’s how we feel. “
Maradona led Argentina to the 1986 World Cup and helped SSC Napoli win two Italian Serie A championships. And although he has never been a candidate or public office, his good luck on the ground, his personality greater than life and his friendships with the left Wing leaders have connected him to political life in Argentina and Latin America for more than 3 decades.
“Fetish is almost our religion. It’s to separate Argentina from the fetish,” said Patricio Eleisegui, an Argentine fan who last week visited estadio Azteca in Mexico City, the site of the 1986 match in England. “Maradona was a representation of all, our dreams. “
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A floral offering for Diego Maradona that says, “This is where you have become God” is outdoors at Estadio Azteca, the stadium where Maradona led Argentina to defeat England at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 26, 2020.
Jorge Valencia / The World
Maradona has befriended Argentina’s two top progressive presidents in recent times: Nestor Kirchner, who died in 2010, and Cristina Kirchner, who attended the Maradona vigil last week. He has also befriended many left-wing leaders in Latin America, Fidel Castro added. Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia.
Maradona first met Castro a year after winning the World Cup, Maradona, his wife Claudia and granddaughter Dalma visited Castro on his forehead at Revolution Square in Havana on July 28, 1987, which Maradona recounted in his autobiography. football, baseball and politics.
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In this archive photo of October 27, 2005 through the Cuban government’s National News Agency (AIN), Cuban President Fidel Castro, right, meets former Argentine football star Diego Maradona as a component of the “Mesa Redonda” exhibition in Havana, Cuba.
AIN / Ismael Francisco AP
Years later, Maradona interviewed Castro on a television screen he presented called “Night of the 10”, which vaguely translates as “Tonight with the 10”, a reference to his T-shirt number. In the sitting conversation, Maradona showed Castro a tattoo on his left calf on Castro’s face. Or they lamented how, in their view, “Latin America may have been everything and it’s nothing. “
Maradona’s political tendencies can be explained through his non-public background, said Rodolfo Colalongo, an Argentine professor of foreigners who specializes in populist movements in Latin America.
Maradona grew up in a family circle of 10, living in a three-bedroom space in the working community of Villa Fiorito, Buenos Aires province. He never seemed to know where he came from here.
“I had the pride of athletics class,” Colalongo said.
A boy prays while playing a portrait of Diego Maradona near Boca Juniors Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 27, 2020.
Rodrigo Abd / AP
Many heads of state have paid tribute to Maradona; Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said he would miss him forever; former Bolivian President Evo Morales said he had been an advocate of just causes; and former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed his commitment. Latin American sovereignty “marked our time. “
Maradona has been criticized in Argentina for his political views and yet he was able to go beyond politics, Colalongo said.
Hundreds of mourners chanted his call and piled up in front of his wake on November 26 at Argentina’s presidential home. In the crowd, a fan dressed in the red and white Buenos Aires River Plate team jersey, and a fanatic dressed in the gold shirt and the military blue shirt of his rival Boca Juniors, did the unthinkable : wept in combination and kissed.
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