Diego Armando Maradona is in the Olympus of footballers and will always be. In the eternal discussion of who was the best player in history, as useless as it is obsessive (just think of Rodri’s Ballon d’Or), Peluza will always be in that small number of characters who, as the ball goes on, will have more and more members .
However, Maradona was the first completely colored footballer. Even more than Cruijff, an extraordinary gaming wizard, obviously more than Pelè, who played two decades earlier when TV was still too limited to be a modern good. However, the Argentine was a revolutionary both on the football pitch, where his technique transgressed the normal limits of the ball, but above all off the pitch. A nonconformist by nature, also because he could afford it due to the way he delighted everyone. Against the powerful, both in football and in administration, a crystal-clear hatred for the powerful and always on the side of the oppressed, of the poor at any latitude.
Maradona was a leader, as seen during the World Cup with Argentina in 1986, but like all certain icons he also managed to fall and get back up, overcoming challenges that seemed impossible, such as getting fit for USA 1994 only to then be disqualified for the use of a certain substance that was included in the banned substances for doping. Capable of leading Naples to victory, of coaching the Argentine national team after a dark period, of getting back up several times. Today Diego Maradona would be 64 years old.