The last time Diego Maradona played soccer in Córdoba was in 2014, for a solidarity event in Río Tercero.
Luis Fabián Artime, Federico Lussenhoff and Gustavo “El Tano” Spallina participated in the meeting, among other local football figures.
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But among those who were lucky enough to participate was also Diego Arroyo, a young man who sold T-shirts from his car near the pedestrian street and to whom a photo with Diego changed his business.
“I fulfilled the dream of the kid, I started selling t-shirts from the car in the pedestrian zone for a personal issue,” he told Chain 3.
Arroyo said that he was able to participate in the event because “he was touched by a wand and a carom” and that he asked Maradona for a photo after the game. But the image did not come out, so he had to insist.
Maradona caused a sensation that day in Río Tercero (Photo: Tribuna)
“He told me ‘calm down, yes. You don’t know how to use the camera’. He dried the perspiration on my shoulder, I plan to get a tattoo there. That event showed solidarity, helped many gardens and disabled people,” he recalled about the match that was it ended in the second half because people invaded the court.
He even revealed that his name is Diego after the soccer star, to whom he told him laughing at the meeting.
The second image was successful in Facebook and that was what, according to him, allowed him to expand: “I hung the photo in Facebook and collected like 4 thousand likes. There I saw what the presence of Maradona was. Later I opened other business units and the place began to have another presence. He had a small store in Nueva Córdoba. “
“From there we opened several more points of sale everywhere, in some towns there were franchises, all by lung, with the project I started from -10. Due to situations in the country and the economy I had to close or sell and I stayed with the workshop textile. There were 5 or 6 locals, “added Diego’s fan who makes shirts for amateur teams.
The memory of “Tano” Spallina
Former Belgrano footballer Gustavo “El Tano” Spallina, who participated that night, valued in Chain 3 the excitement of playing with Diego that night.
“I went with the Third Time Foundation and we paid him a tribute,” he recalled.
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Finally, he revealed an anecdote of a time in which he had to face Maradona when he played in Boca, an occasion in which in an unusual way gathered all the players in the middle of the court before the game.
“He told us ‘I’m a colleague, I know they are going to kick me to take it off because they are the rules of the game, but I want them to know that I will always defend them to the death, because they are soccer players like me,'” he described.
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