Guillermo Coppola’s Heartache: Remembering His Last Goodbye to Diego Maradona

Guillermo Coppola’s pain when remembering his last goodbye to Diego Maradona (Video: Interviews, La Nación)

This Wednesday, Guillermo Coppola was moved when he remembered Diego Armando Maradona in a one-on-one with Luis Novaresio, in his cycle of reports +Interviews, by La Nación+. “Diego comes in there, what do you say?” the journalist wanted to know. Immediately, the businessman and former manager of the soccer star who died on November 25, 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, responded: “That it is shit and that he failed me because he promised me that he would take me, that he was going to fire me.” with the music that I liked.”

“You did something wrong because, being an asshole like you are, you ran away… You left this place, you left this world when you had promised me that you were going to take me. “You failed your friend, your brother and everything you said, even the one who stole your daughters’ money, if you want to add something else, but you failed me,” Coppola said, on the verge of crying, talking to his friend about the whole situation. life.

The day of the last goodbye to Diego Maradona (Photo: Franco Fafasuli)

“Luis was telling him all this on the way when he was carrying the box. He hurt me a lot because he could have done something, not the others,” said Guillermo, who to this day continues to miss Maradona, as he stated in various interviews in which he had to remember his friend.

Regarding Diego’s last days, he revealed: “I don’t judge the others, the truth is I don’t know who they are. I know his daughters, of course, I have the best one with Claudia, Dalma, and Giannina, who grew up with one, but he failed me, because he wanted to be where he was, no one forced him. It’s not that they locked him up. They could change his phone, as we say, but then if they did or didn’t do it, everyone knows what he did. “I know what I did, that’s why that family gave me the first drawer handle at goodbye.”

Guillermo Coppola and the memory of Maradona (LN)

“I loved him madly, we were a couple, we lacked sex,” he described the relationship that united them, and went further with his statement: “And if there had been, I would tell you looking into your eyes, what changes?” ? are you more macho? what is it to be male? If we had been together, Luis, we needed 10 programs, thousands, we would never have lacked that.”

Diego’s words still echo in his head in that reunion after many years apart, when they met in Russia: “I never stopped loving you,” the soccer star shot, to which the representative could only answer “me neither.” After that, a genuine and long-awaited hug.

The story between Diego Maradona and Guillermo Coppola began in 1985, when both joined professionally in a representative-represented relationship that lasted until 1991. However, their bond transcended work and became a close friendship, marked by thousands of shared anecdotes. and a unique complicity. Even after their professional relationship ended in 1991, they remained friends for the next few years, although each went their separate ways.

During those years, the relationship was characterized by their closeness and the complicity they showed in public. Without a doubt, both were iconic figures, with Maradona as the football legend and Coppola as his closest friend and representative.

In 2000, their friendship suffered a serious blow when Maradona accused Coppola of stealing money from him, which took the conflict to court. Although there was an attempt at reconciliation during the first hearing, the relationship was never the same.

For several years they were estranged, with Diego publicly expressing his discontent and criticizing his former representative on several occasions. However, Maradona’s illness and his subsequent hospitalization in Cuba temporarily reunited them.

But peace did not last long, as a new conflict arose when photos of Coppola playing soccer with other celebrities were leaked while Maradona was in Cuba. This made the former player feel betrayed and the relationship broke down once again.

In 2009, another point of contention arose when the manager faced fiscal problems in Italy and partly blamed Coppola for his financial situation. However, despite these conflicts, there were moments of reconciliation, such as when they came together at Don Diego’s wake in 2015.

In June 2018, during the World Cup in Russia, both met again in that country and hugged each other excitedly. This meeting marked the beginning of a new stage in their relationship, characterized by greater understanding and mutual affection.

One of the last times they were seen together was in February 2020, during a Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata match, a team led by Maradona. This image reflected a relationship that, despite its ups and downs, endured over the years and demonstrated the strength of the bond that united them.

2024-05-16 12:44:00
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