This Wednesday at noon, Diego Armando Maradona’s heart stopped and Argentina began one of its most painful mourning, which will last for three days. The world champion with Argentina in 1986 died at his residence on the outskirts of Buenos Aires due to a cardiac arrest, a sudden, unexpected death that has shocked an entire country and the whole world.
After hearing the news, silence first dominated the streets and then gave way to screams and euphoria a mixture of sadness and celebration of a championship that is not and that actually exalts an earthly god to the universe.
“He doesn’t even fall into the category of superhero, he’s really a god,” explained Martí, a Maradona fan at the foot of the Obelisk, the monument in downtown Buenos Aires where the 1986 World Cup was held and which is now where more than ever the name of Maradona has been called. Some horns sounded in the streets while the residents of Villa Fiorito, the neighborhood where Maradona was born, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, have also remembered him with emotion. Some signs regulating traffic in the city of Buenos Aires have been illuminated with a faint: “Thank you, Diego.” The networks, full of images of the eternal 10, have not stopped remembering him as the greatest.
The former Boca, Napoli and Barça player spent his last days at home in the town of Tigre, near Buenos Aires, where he was recovering from a head operation due to a subdural hematoma. He had just turned 60 a month ago and gave some interviews: “I will be eternally grateful to people. Every day they surprise me, what I experienced in this return to Argentine football I will never forget,” he said. in the newspaper Clarion. Today, Argentina, always divided by its passions, mourns together the death of its last myth.
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