The death of Diego Maradona on 37 covers of newspapers and magazines around the world

Diego Armando Maradona, the soccer star, died at age 60 in a residence in Buenos Aires product of a cardiorespiratory arrest. His last days were far from the flashes that had accustomed his glorious path. I even wanted “take a vacation from Maradona”, As recounted in this detailed and revealing chronicle of Infobae. When the sad news was known, the most important newspapers in the world – and those more local – began to think about their covers, their farewells.

In English, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese … all languages ​​surrendered to the immortality of the one who always knew how to live to the extreme, that little boy who juggled the soccer ball born in Villa Fiorito, Lanús, province of Buenos Aires on October 30, 1960, in the midst of the deepest humility. French, Italian, North American, English, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Brazilian newspapers and magazines. They all decided to enthrone Maradona in its main headlines.

References to the famous “hand of God” were not lacking: “In God’s hands“, Repeated several English media, honoring one of the greatest football humiliations suffered by that team during the 1986 World Cup.”God is dead“Philosophized the French The team. “Maradona, the rebel genius who played the most beautiful football”Prayed the Milanese Corriere della Sera.

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