Diego Armando Maradona 1960 - 2020

Diego




Leaving Earth

chopper wrote: Sadly in the UK he will always be remembered for punching the ball over Shilton's head.

I believe he is much more remembered for the 2nd goal from that game.

The double standards from english people never ceases to amaze me.

They still complain about Maradona's lack of sportmanship even 34 years later, but rarely do they say a thing about the 1966 finals they stole from Germany.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Apparently that tweet is fake.

Edited by triptych - November 26 2020 at 11:01

Sean Trane wrote: Diego Arsolo Prima(ra)Dona, who's he?? =====================

Is this fake or real? If the latter, the "fake news CNN" shouldn't miss the chance. 

BTW, R.I.P. the legend Maradona. 

Edited by Sean Trane - November 26 2020 at 08:47

He was violent, cheated on his wife and abandoned his son.

John Lennon was all that. And I've never heard anyone talk about him the way they talk about Maradona.

It's called class discrimination.

Maradona was a flawed man as we all are who lived his life they way he could. The way they let him live it.

He never asked to be a role model the same way he never asked to have journalists harrassing him 24/7 during his whole career.

During his prime he was the most famous man on this earth. Everybody wanted a piece of him. And Diego never let his people down. That's why he's loved by so many.

Not an easy life to live if you ask me.

Edited by Morningrise - November 26 2020 at 05:52

Like some people here, I'm no big fan of soccer myself....I prefer motor car racing (F1, F2, NASCAR, dragsters, etc.)....BUT, we cannot deny as sports loving people in general, that Maradona was probably the GREATEST soccer player in history, if you exclude Pele of course. As a person, Maradona was probably misjuged or judged unjustly in some cases...I don't really know 100%......but he DID donate lots of $$$ to charity, children's funds, poverty communities, etc etc., so he mustn't have been that bad:)

Sad news. I'm not really much of a soccer fan but have heard of him due to the fact that I like to research things and he was always ranked near the top(or at the top) of soccer lists. RIP Diego.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - November 25 2020 at 16:58

Lewian wrote: Indeed, it seems he won over everyone in Napoli with his football but also with his as far as I can tell honest affection for the city and its people. Napoli is in grief, as is Argentina. RIP! (Napoli is not quite Arminia Bielefeld though. )

Perhaps not nowadays. But in the 80s they sure were a small squad. Anyway, I said Arminia Bielefeld as I could have said Hertha Berlin or any other not so lauded club

BaldFriede wrote: My brother just called me and told me the news. His death is probably linked to the debaucherous lifestyle he had after his career. R.I.P. I consider Pele to be the greatest though.

I see you are from Germany. Tell Pelé, hell, even tell Messi, to take a humble club like Arminia Bielefeld and turn it into the greatest like Maradona did with Napoli in Italy