There are Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Milito, Drogba and Eto'o, but perhaps the last true star ( human ) of the football World Cup in South Africa is about to start him again, the indomitable and unconquerable Diego Maradona. At the head of un'Argentina which on paper has everything to win the World Cup, except perhaps the unpredictability of his coach . Fandango for the occasion once again in the pocket of the extraordinary autobiography Pibe de Oro I am El Diego , a book that irresistible, picaresque, with apparent humility, does nothing but add new life to the myth of a sample absolute. A bit 'the same thing done by the film Emir Kusturica's Maradona ( he sings hand de Dios, UNFORGETTABLE ), only this time Diego speaks in person. At the time of the football players and hyper-cyborg professionalized, read the story of the poor child became a world star in spite of itself is an experience of the liberating and the nostalgic.
The personality of Maradona is overflowing since the dedication of the book: a list of people across two pages, the daughters unto God ( elsewhere called "the bearded" ), passing for "all players in the world, Fidel Castro , Caniggia, Ciro Ferrara and Michael Jordan, not to mention "the lawyers have come up with my friend from prison." Already here we pure Dada, but subsequent pages are no different. Maradona says candidly of the best gift of all his life, the first balloon : "I had three years and I slept all night hug." Diego's little remained in the collective dream that TV recording: play and win a World Cup with Argentina. Reviewing images is now impossible not to think of words like "destiny", but in reality is the same as Maradona to explain that "it was the same dream of every kid, like all the others. " Different is that Diego has done it , but even here the path was neither simple nor straightforward. In 1978, remains out of the Seleccion then win the Cup under the icy gaze of the military, nell'1982 has a great opportunity, is the star of the tournament, but again, thanks to Italy Bearzot and Gentile, things go wrong . "What is safe - says Maradona - is that I was to lose most of all: since no one was threatening me, no more than I wanted things to go well."
Diego, while his boundless ego, the book maintains a perspective constant amazement, as if he expected never to be appreciated. When the coach asks him to become captain Bilardo of Argentina cries of joy when it finally raises her World Cup in 1986 will not let anyone else: "I wanted to be sure that were true, it was ours, the Argentine ". The years in Barcelona are turbulent and marked by constant tension with the President Nuñez, culminating in an amazing protest with the launch of trophies in the seat of the Catalan club. Then it's Naples, and the war of Diego, a champion of the poor and "southerners" against the power teams in the North. The story is well known, including the sad ending . And like any epic that respect, even that of Maradona says at one point gloomy, and Diego meet the Camorra. "I know - he writes - it was something intriguing that world, I admit. For the Argentines was a novelty: the mafia!, And how will the mafia!? There was something fascinating about this. " The dark side is always ready to seize the hero, Maradona in the gray area has walked a long time.
final note on this. Maradona at the World Cup has everything to lose and probably many are waiting for the pass. But if he wins, even to FIFA, where they have never loved, could not not notice that it would be the best way to revive the timeless legend of football . A game whose greatest performer of all time was one, writes the same as Maradona, who was training every day in the garage. A cross between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, obviously insane, which is fighting against the windmills of what it describes as the Power. Fantastic
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