When Maradona was born, Argentina was in a period of economic depression and social turmoil. Although he was born in the capital of Buenos Aires , known as "Paris in South America". But the traffic is full of glamor and glamor is just the surface. He lives in a dirty and messy slum area filled with poor people.
In Maradona's childhood, he not only endured the torture of poverty, but also saw too many sins in the sun. But none of this is enough to make Maradona sad because his father often takes him to play football, and the sport of playing football really fascinates him.
Most people in this world have to work hard to barely gain the ability to make a living, but there are also lucky people who are chasing God to feed, such as Maradona.
Maradona has not undergone professional training, but he has shown unmatched talent in the competition with the children. When he was 10 years old, he was selected to the Argentine Youth Club and started participating in the competition.
Maradona at that time had thick curly hair. Compared with the players, he is relatively short, but as soon as he comes on the court, he is like a tight clockwork, full of energy. His performance was eye-catching, and he was the favorite of coaches when he was a teenager. Because of his superb football skills, he was arranged by his coach to participate in football matches in seniors many times.
Maradona was in the newspaper when she was 11 years old. At that time, perhaps no one had expected that Maradona would become a star that amazed the world in many years.
When Maradona was galloping on the court, Argentina's domestic political turmoil, warlords' melee, and inflation caused by the economic crisis has reached an uncontrollable level. The army also took advantage of the chaos to launch mutinies, seize power, establish a joint military government, and began military dictatorship.
The riots in the country have caused panic among the people, but Maradona, who is already well-known, does not have to worry about security at all. He focused on his mind and set an amazing record of 136 consecutive victories. Therefore, at the age of 14, he advanced to the Youth Club adult team and became the youngest player in the history of Argentina's first-class professional league.
In the chaos, Maradona, as a substitute, got a chance to play in the duel against the Codoma team. His wonderful performance immediately left a deep impression on the fans.
1978, Maradona scored 26 goals on his own in Argentina League One. This not only made his team a star team, but also became the top scorer in that class, but also the youngest best scorer in Argentina's first-tier league history.
In the 5 years of the Youth Club, Maradona has participated in 166 games and scored 116 goals, making a team that was originally ranked outside the 20th in the League One, becoming the runner-up in the league.
In fact, when Maradona first joined the adult team, because he was young, his teammates always deliberately did not pass the ball to him during the game, which made the fans who like him very dissatisfied. After a loss in a game, angry fans rushed into the stadium and cursed Maradona's teammates loudly, questioning why they didn't pass the ball to Maradona, and many even swung their fists.
Seeing a conflict breaking out, Maradona bravely stood in front of his teammates and shouted to the fans, "Although you were not for me, you must not do this. What's the use of doing this?" If you do this again, we won’t kick tomorrow!
It is this selfless responsibility that conquered teammates. Since then, Maradona has become the backbone of the team. All teammates are happy to organize tactical arrangements with him as the core.
At this time, Maradona also attracted the attention of a wealthy family abroad, and his value also increased.
In fact, in 1977, Nicolao Casas, vice chairman of Barcelona team , noticed that Maradona, who was playing for the Argentine Youth Club, actively contacted Maradona's agent and expressed his willingness to sign Maradona.
However, good things are hard to deal with. On the one hand, the youth clubs are asking for prices everywhere. On the other hand, many Argentine fans marched and demonstrated after learning about the situation, accusing the youth club of selling Maradona to Spain as a "destroying power and humiliating the country." Some fans even threw broken shoes, rotten eggs, etc. into the VIP seat where the youth club is located, and shouted: "Maradona is not a seller!"
In fact, the head coach of the Argentine national team also opposed Maradona's departure from Europe, because Argentina has been in a slump since World War II . Although Argentina also cultivated some talented stars during that period, most of those stars were lost to Europe and Argentina did not benefit.
However, the youth club is facing financial difficulties. So after negotiation, the Youth Club rented Maradona to the Boca Youth Team for a rent of 4 million yuan, and then barely kept Maradona in the country.
Maradona participated in 40 games in Boca in one year and scored 28 goals, helping Boca win the Argentina League championship, and Boca became the strongest team in Argentina.
In 1982, Barcelona spent 9 million US dollars to get Maradona with the highest transfer fee in football.
However, Maradona's experience in Barcelona was quite bumpy. He first suffered from hepatitis and had to rest for 3 months. Later, he was beaten by butcher defender Goyecochea on the field, causing a fracture of his left ankle and damage to his ligament. He lay in the hospital for more than 4 months.
Despite this, Maradona scored 38 goals for Barcelona, helping Barcelona win the Spanish League Cup , Spanish King's Cup and Spanish Super Cup championships.
1984, Maradona moved to the Italian Football League Naples team with a net worth of 7.5 million US dollars.
Naples team just succeeded in relegation before getting Maradona. In European football teams, they are definitely not a good team. At that time, , Ferrari, and Milan both extended olive branches to Maradona and promised a high salary. However, when Maradona saw the poor kid who loved playing football in , he chose Naples without hesitation. He said he would rather be an idol of the poor children in Naples.
Manadona only took 3 years to win the championship. He then led Naples to the UEFA Cup and once again led the team to the Serie A championship in 1990.
1990 Italian World Cup , Maradona led Argentina and Italy to become opponents. Although the Naples support the Italian team, they also held up slogans: "Maradona, Naples loves you, but Italy is our motherland", "Diego is in the heart, Italy is in the song"... Even after the Argentina scored, because of Maradona, there were still many cheers with Naples accents kept ringing.
Nepolis once wanted Maradona to become a Naples. Some people are willing to pay $1 million to buy his portrait rights, the only condition is to allow him to join Italian nationality while retaining Argentine nationality and become a dual nationality person.
But Maradona refused this request without thinking. He said: "No matter how much money you have, I will never buy my dignity and pride as an Argentine!"
Indeed, even if Maradona became the world's king of football, he still loves his motherland wholeheartedly and regards winning honor for the motherland as his unshirkable responsibility.
In 1986, Maradona led the Argentina to participate in the World Cup in Mexico. He passed the game and led the Argentina to the quarterfinals, and then became opponents with England.
The Horse Island War made Britain and Afghanistan a deadly enemy, so the showdown on the court seemed full of gunpowder from the beginning.During the game, Maradona scored two key balls with his hands and feet (one was handball , which was originally a foul, but because Maradona was short and the tall player in front blocked the referee's sight, the referee did not see his small move, and the referee determined that the ball was valid.)
If the handball cannot be considered strength, then the second shot of 5 people in a row undoubtedly made Maradona a god-like player. After
won, Maradona humorously stated in an interview with reporters that the handball was half the hand of God and half the head. It means that God made that goal. This is undoubtedly a humiliation for the UK.
Because Maradona led Argentina to defeat England at home in the UK, and eventually won the Hercules Cup . Argentina celebrates the whole country, and the people feel proud. In this way, in their minds, Maradona is not just the king of football, but has become their national hero and spiritual totem.
Maradona is a god-like existence, but he also has a lot of negative news. He is alcoholic, drug abuse, and various gossip news. For a long time, Maradona was a media darling, and they talked about Maradona's rebellious, unruly, and crazy behavior. These reports have greatly damaged Manadona's image.
However, none of this can affect Manadona's position in the hearts of fans, especially Argentina fans. Because Maradona uses his superb skills to bring too much happiness to the fans. Because Maradona was patriotic, he was unwilling to change to the nationality of a wealthy country. Because Maradona used his victory on the court to wash away the humiliation of the Argentinians on , the island of Maharaja . So, Maradona will always be the god of Argentina.
On November 25, 2020, 60-year-old Maradona passed away due to heart attack.
For fans all over the world, perhaps all they have lost is the world's king of football. But for the Argentines, what they lost is a soul figure who saved the country. It is precisely because of this that the Argentine government decided to hold a state funeral for Maradona to mourn their heroes!
