RIP Diego

I remember watching some documentary on him when Argentina played England in 86 and he looked along the English line and sneered at our men, it was so plain that the Falklands war was playing in his mind, and didn't he pay us back later on!. Genius football player with a God like status in his own country. RIP
 
He was unstoppable in an era when players got a lot less protection. Frightening to think how he would have been in today's game. Won a world cup on his own almost.
Scorer of the greatest goal I've ever seen.
Never liked him though.
 
It seems appropriate to quote John Donne again...
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”

But, to be honest, the news has left me rather unmoved.
 
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The guy had good footballing skills, the second Argie goal against England in 86 proved that, his warm ups were great too.
 
Cheat and liked the drugs. Far better players been mentioned above and on other threads.
 
I don't remember his prime especially vividly. I remember his decline more vividly and thus he always seemed a slight disappointment to me.

I guess it's like people who only remember fat knackered Gazza. When you look back, he's absurdly good. Nearly as good as Wes.

As others have said, the documentary on him is really good, I especially like the bit where he turns up in Naples to play a game for a (irc) sick kid on a local field as the club wouldn't do it officially and it's mental.

Football is like rock and roll, it makes and it breaks the very greatest. He was a pure character, an adrenaline shot of a person and like Gazza, had he been calm, sensible and measured, there's no way he'd have been the player he was.

RIP.
 
Rotterdam+Sussex_Seasider said:
For me, he was the greatest. He single handedly made cr@p teams great (Argentina & Napoli). That second goal against England in 1986 was stunning when you consider every England player wanted to break his leg. RIP Diego
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Trouble was no player wanted to break his leg. It was a case of hack him and they didn't, in the same way we didn't to Dembele(?) for Fulham H in the PL and Davis at the Retail Park. Had we, we'd have had 4 more points.

He was a thug. Great player, but a thug. Horrid man.
 
RIP Maradona, great great talent still remember vividly his last game for Barcelona when he got kicked off the park by most of the Bilbao team before completely losing his rag.
Queue the biggest brawl I've ever seen in a European game and Diego was swiftly sold on to Napoli. Watch it on you tube.
The rest is history.
 
He was some talent in his prime and lit up THAT World Cup. They are going to be having some kick about up there tonight.
He lived a rock & roll lifestyle and if you offered him another 20 years and a boring life, he wouldn’t change a thing.
 
He lived a rock & roll lifestyle and if you offered him another 20 years and a boring life, he wouldn’t change a thing.

I had no idea you knew him so well TN!!
 
Fargo99 said:
RIP Maradona, great great talent still remember vividly his last game for Barcelona when he got kicked off the park by most of the Bilbao team before completely losing his rag.
Queue the biggest brawl I've ever seen in a European game and Diego was swiftly sold on to Napoli. Watch it on you tube.
The rest is history.
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No excuses for such an astonishing brawl, but a bit of background would help.
There was a lot of bad history with that Bilbao team. In that particular game, he was kicked in the chest by Goikoetxea ('Butcher of Bilbao') who served a 16 game ban! The same player had broken Maradona's ankle the previous year and also finished Bernd Schuster's career.
 
Junior_BentsPlatformShoes said:
You look at the pitches he played on, the 'tackles' that were allowed, the weight of the ball, the lack of sports science, boot technology etc etc and I'd say he was the best.
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Hope you're talking about Pele 'cause the pitches were far worse when he played above anything Maradona played on.
I can't remember Maradona being hacked to bits in a world cup like Pele did at goodison park 🤷‍♂️
 
Macron showing again that he’s tone deaf... using Maradona’s death to try and wind up the English. If the Daily Heil is to be believed.
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France's President Macron praises Diego Maradona

The Elysee hailed Maradona's contribution in 'the most geopolitical match in football history' - Argentina's 2-1 win over England in the 1986 World Cup, four years after the Falklands War.
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Google translation of the Elysée statement...

The hand of God had placed a football genius on earth. She just took it back from us, with an unforeseen dribble that cheated all our defenses. Did she want, by this gesture, to settle the debate of the century: is Diego Maradona the greatest football player of all time? The tears of millions of orphans respond to it today with painful evidence.

Born in a poor suburb of Buenos Aires, Diego Armando Maradona makes his family and his neighborhood dream with his leg passes which will soon crucify the best European defenders. Boca juniors and the legendary derbies reveal it in world football. It was Barcelona who took the diamond, believing they had finally found Johan Cruyff's successor to once again dominate European football.

But it was in Naples that Diego became Maradona. In southern Italy, the pibe de oro rediscovers the excessiveness of South American stadiums, the irrational fervor of the supporters and takes Naples on the Scudetto road, to the rooftops of Europe. The mezzogiorno has its revenge on history and it is only Platini's reinforcement that will see Juventus once again on a level playing field with their historic rivals.

Sumptuous and unpredictable player, Maradona’s football had nothing to say about it. With ever-renewed inspiration, he was constantly inventing gestures and strikes from elsewhere. A crampon dancer, not really an athlete, more an artist, he embodied the magic of the game.

But he still had to write the history of a country scarred by dictatorship and military defeat. This resurrection took place in 1986, in the most geopolitical match in football history, a World Cup quarter-final against Margaret Thatcher's England. On June 22, 1986, in Mexico City, he scored his first goal with God for a teammate. The miracle is disputed, but the referee saw nothing: Maradona's sense of the brouffe snatches the point. Then follows "the goal of the century", which summons the spirits of football's greatest dribblers: Garrincha, Kopa, Pelé united in one action. Over 50 meters, in a mind-blowing race, he passed half of the English team, dribbled past goalkeeper Shilton before sending the ball into the net and Albiceleste into the last four of the World Cup. In the same match, god and devil, he scored the two most famous goals in football history. There was a King Pelé, there is now a God Diego.

With the same grace, the same superb insolence, he sneaks up to the final which he marks with the most beautiful gesture in football: the decisive pass, the goal of the number 10. When he lifts the trophy, a myth is created. born: the enfant terrible has become the best player in the world. And the World Cup returns to Argentina: this time it's the people's, not the generals.

This taste of the people, Diego Maradona will also live it off the field. But his expeditions to Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez will taste like a bitter defeat. It was on the pitches that Maradona made the revolution.

The President of the Republic salutes this undisputed sovereign of the round ball that the French have loved so much. To all those who saved their pocket money to finally complete the Panini Mexico 1986 album with its sticker, to all those who tried to negotiate with their partner to baptize their son Diego, to his Argentinian compatriots, to the Neapolitans who drew frescoes worthy of Diego Rivera in his effigy, to all football lovers, the President of the Republic sends his heartfelt condolences. Diego remains.
 
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it didn't mention 'The Hand Of God' in that. 🙄
Does Warnock only know one swear word? However he does use it quite often.😀
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
His excesses were self inflicting though, doesn't appear to have ever harmed anyone close to him, unlike Best and Gazza, both wife beaters who played the victim.
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Maradona accused of domestic violence after video leak - TNT Sports

Football legend Diego Maradona has been accused of hitting his former fiancée after a video was leaked to a television station in what is turning into a signifi
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Sadly, Lytham, he's got form for that, too. There have been a lot of complete and utter twots who've been great players.
 
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