Palermo broke live remembering Maradona

A lump in the throat. The broken voice and the tears that flowed alone, uncontrollable. Chicken skin. Martin Palermo starred this Tuesday, in a deep talk he had on Radio La Red, a moment of great emotion to the point that it broke live when remembering Diego Maradona. She couldn’t help it. And his story, with an open heart, also generated the same feeling in the listeners and even in those who were able to follow the interview live via YouTube…

“It’s a void… An absence that’s hard to cover up. The other time Claudia came home and seeing her made me emotional, or it made me feel something missing… It always happens to me that emotion is going to betray me: it’s remembering, I’m like this…“, Palermo started, with a raspy voice and visibly distressed, when he was asked – in the middle of an interview on the program Un Buen Momento – about the memories of all the moments lived next to Diego Maradona.

And the Titan, as soon as he began to let go and reminisce about old situations with Diego, became emotional with every word, with every memory. And he struck a chord with listeners by revealing that “sentimentally Diego generates me, it happens to me that I can’t control my internal sensations to what Diego isn’t here today. I have even thought that he is going to appear, that he is going to come out of some note or that Diego arrived in Dubai, in Qatar, in Argentina… And he does not arrive “. Very strong.

The moment of emotion in Palermo on Radio La Red

It was a moment of the talk in which Palermo was completely moved, making it clear that even today, almost two years after Maradona’s death, there are issues that are impossible to digest. But above all, to forget. “Diego was always there. That relationship that we had first as a player with him in Boca we enjoyed many things. We began to know him from a human point of view, from the admiration of a player that one had and he gave you what he did not have. He toasted everyone, and then it was living and sharing very nice things with him”was the prelude to the moment in which the Titan could no longer avoid breaking live…

“From his moment in Punta del Este when I tried to accompany him, him to Claudia, to the girls… Even when I was also bad with my son, he showed up at the hospital, he was with me and those things are not forgotten…”, recounted and the tears bloomed at that moment. It is not for less: the former striker and today coach referred to the toughest situation that Palermo had to live: On August 6, 2006, she received the sad news that her unborn son, whom she intended to name Stéfano, had died.. And Diego was with him…

“He was there when I needed him. You need that person, that friend to be by your side… Even though he wasn’t my friend, he was that person who made me feel the passion“He added, in the middle of a radio studio that experienced emotion with the 48-year-old man.

But in the midst of that climate of deep emotion, Palermo itself also made a place to remember the nice things, the most beautiful moments that he had to live with Diego, at that time DT of the National Team: “Time led me to meet him , to share and live things with him and that led me to finish my football career playing a World Cup at the age of 36. And there is nothing that makes me forget it, or that my passion for football is not always present in Diego”.

And in turn, memory made him go back almost 30 years and dust off a moment that was sad and hard for Maradona and all Argentine football: doping in the 1994 World Cup in the USA. And what memories do you have of that day?

“When the United States happened, I was with my girlfriend, I was watching television with her and her father was sitting there. Diego began to speak, he said the famous phrase ‘they cut off my legs'”, and I was looking at the television. like that love at first sight. Of what I felt for Diego and what he was experiencing at that moment and I started to cry… My dad looked at me and my girlfriend at that moment told me ‘are you crying for this?’ And inside of me I said, you don’t know what it means to me and what this person transmits the passion for football. And from there it was like that love lasted“. His emotion, everyone’s…