A year has passed since the disappearance of Diego Armando Maradona. On November 25, 2020, the news of his death went around the world and occupied the pages and the news for days. Behind the controversy surrounding his death, millions of mourners. Even today, the images of the funeral home, located in the Casa Rosada, the Argentine presidential palace, are shivering. Thousands of people in tears for the disappearance of their myth.
First of the last, and first of the first. The story of Diego Armando Maradona it is so inflated that it does not allow to relive it in a few simple and short words, but one year after his death, remembering him is very necessary. When we say Maradona, football - the focal point of the discussion on Pibe de Oro - forcibly slips into the background. Diego was the people's champion, the soul of a slice of the world incapable and unable to take revenge which in him, in his games, in his being the gravitational center of the world thanks to his talent, has seen and experienced the possibility of obtaining that revenge.
First of the last
First of the last we said, exactly as he lived from his first cries in Buenos Aires to the last hours of his life, he spent away from the spotlight of a world that had sucked all the blood it could, and that had tried to give him back enough love. to equalize everything Diego had done for him.
First of the last, capable of bringing Argentina and Napoli, nation the first and city-state the second, at the forefront of international news. Victories innervated of so much beauty, audacity and boldness that they themselves became a reason for revenge for a social class that saw in Maradona a legitimate child.
First of the last because Maradona has never really moved away from that social stratum to which he belonged. He always tried to give back what the world had taken away. Diego has become the international hero of the masses whose life revolved around the football and media performances of what - rightly or wrongly - is considered one of the greatest interpreters of the sport. If not the greatest.
Maradona, the memory a year later
But Maradona was also first among the first. Sublime player, with technical and ballistic skills simply incomparable to his contemporaries. So capable of influencing matches to overshadow champions who had the right physique, the right technique, the right social status.
One year after his death, in Naples and Argentina they celebrate what is a real national mourning. Diego, first among the first and first among the last, marked an era and nothing better than the words that Guardiola spoke can restore us the capital importance of a man who became a divinity: "It doesn't matter what he has done with his life, what what counts is what he was able to do to ours. "
In Naples today it was inaugurated the statue is dedicated to Diego Armando Maradona. It is located near the Maradona stadium, which bears his name a few weeks after his disappearance. Also in the city that has lived through the best years of his career, a delegation of supporters from the Boca Juniors, .
The Argentine team has always been in Diego's heart and the trip to Naples was a real pilgrimage. First they stopped in Largo Maradona to pay homage to the mural dedicated to the Pibe de Oro and to lay scarves and flowers. Later they participated in the inauguration of the statue that pays homage to the footballer.
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