The void left by the death of Diego Armando Maradona, which occurred exactly one month ago, is difficult to put into words. However, in a special that the Conmebol To honor Ten, some of the people who knew him did the exercise of talking about what he meant in their lives and the teachings he left them.
“Eternal Diego” is the name of the shipment that was published on the social networks of the body that governs South American football and that has the testimonies of Carlos Tevez, Hugo Maradona, Alemao, Nery Pumpido, Magdalena Aicega and from Profe Fernando Signorini, all interviewed by Cecilio Flematti.
Apache was the first to tell what role Maradona played in his life: “He’s like my second dad. He was always by my side when I needed him most. We always bank on each other ”. The Boca forward said that he always felt identified with the Ten because of the humble origins that both had. “He left Fiorito and I left Fuerte Apache,” he remarked.
“I had nothing left to tell him. I was always very affectionate with him, I told him that I loved him very much and my admiration for him. When he was in front of him, he hugged and kissed him. I did not keep anything”, Valued Tevez.
When defining the qualities that highlighted Diego in life, his brother Hugo did not hesitate: “He never gave up.” While the Brazilian Alemao, who was teammate of Pelusa at Napoli in Italy, described him as “A football genius, a great motivator and leader. He was always a very authentic person. A great example of overcoming, of leadership, of camaraderie ”.
Nery Pumpido, who was Maradona’s teammate for ten years in the Argentine national team, referred to one of the teachings that he left him: “You always have to go for more in everything and the example of this is Diego: always thought of believing big and reaching as high as possible”. In addition, he recalled how he lived from the arc that mythical goal to the English in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico: “He did not stop. I was going from behind moving to see how English was going and to define how he defined ”.
Maradona was a big fan of the Argentine team, no matter what discipline it was. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he was in the locker room to cheer on Las Leonas when they lost the semifinals of the competition and gave them encouragement to go in search of the bronze medal they would end up winning. “Diego made us believe big. For us it was something unique and magical“Said Magdalena Aicega, a member of that team.
Finally, it was the turn of Fernando Signorini, one of the people who best knew Maradona in his privacy. Regarding the resilience that Maradona showed in his career, he related one episode in particular: “It was practically unthinkable that after the brutal fracture that the match against Athletic Bilbao suffered on September 24, 1983, the famous blow of Andoni Goikoetxea, could resurface. That yes that it was a real phoenix. There were many specialists who believed that the injury was so important as to prevent Diego from reaching the heights he later reached thanks to his genius, his love of self-improvement, always wanting a little more and wanting to realize that dream of home. new for Tota, Chitoro and their family ”.
“Diego was an artist who dedicated himself to playing soccer, a boy gifted not only for football, but for sports in general, ”added Signorini.
But, perhaps, the most emotional phrase of the Conmebol special is the one left by Hugo Maradona when asked if he had anything left to say to his brother. The answer was: “I would ask him why he left us so quickly.”
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