Cover news reporter Yan Wenwen
Maradona gone?!
Doesn't that sound like a joke?
But this harsh reality adds a tragic footnote to the magical year of 2020.
Most of the post-60s and post-70s who have entered the health stage should brush up on this bad news when they get up in the morning.
Time is quickly pulled to the time that belonged to Maradona and Argentina,
Your face is getting older, so much so that we haven't heard from you for a long time.
Caught off guard, you swiped the screen in this way.
In the face of the lamentations of the post-60s, post-70s and post-80s, some post-10s are asking: "Who is Maradona?" ”
We will all grow old, but that memory will always be young and always full of blood.
Maradona gone?
Over the past decade, or even twenty years, news of Maradona's critical illness or even death has come out at regular intervals, and each time it has been swiftly debunked.
However, on November 25, 2020, Diego Armando Maradona died of a sudden cardiac arrest at home at the age of 60.
This time, Maradona was really gone.
In June 2010, West China Metropolis Daily cover reporter Wenwen Yan took a photo with Digo Maradona's younger brother Laro Maradona in Johannesburg, South Africa
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During the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa, Maradona served as argentina's head coach. Cover reporters have watched Argentina's training on the spot. Argentina's home base for that World Cup was in Pretoria, and the opening hours for journalists were small and short. On the first open day of the Argentine team, almost all the media rushed to Pretoria. Traffic jams began a few streets away from the training ground, and a parking spot was set up a kilometer away, where everyone had to walk into the training ground area.
With hundreds of journalists coming, the training ground could not withstand the onlookers of so many reporters. Argentina's press officer even personally went outside the stadium to count the heads of reporters to enter the field, and the entire training was only open for 10 minutes, and no interview was arranged after the training.
After entering the field, Maradona stood on the sidelines not far away, watching his players train. Wearing the training uniform of the Argentine team and wearing a sunhat, he is not tall, he is indeed a little unobtrusive, but he has a powerful aura. Although Messi, Aguero and other superstars are training on the side, Maradona has the kind of aura that makes people stare at him unceasingly, as if he has several gilded words "Wanshi Superstar" pasted on his body.
In that interview, the cover news reporter also met his brother, Laro Maradona. It was at the South African Museum of Racism, and a group of people wearing Argentine team coats came to the museum restaurant, and one of them was particularly conspicuous - tall, wearing the Hat of the Argentine team, wearing the coat of the Argentine team, and at first glance looked like Maradona.
However, this "Maradona" is a fake, known for imitating the old horse in Argentina on television. But a dark-skinned man standing next to him held out his hand: "My name is Raul Maradona, you can call me Laro." ”
Laro is not well-known in China, but famous in Argentina. He is Diego's younger brother, 6 years younger than him, and a footballer who has played for Boca Youth Club in Argentina and Granada in Spain.
Because his brother's performance was too prominent, it masked his light. However, Laro admired his brother very much and went to South Africa as a member of maradona's family and friends to cheer for his brother.
He was full of trust in his brother between his words, and when talking about his impression of his brother, Laro said this: "He is not only my brother, but also the god of the whole world."
Why? In fact, for the younger brother, the most charming thing about the older brother is his personality charm.
There is a spirit of defiance in Maradona, a very contradictory person, which also makes him full of personality charm.
Maradona hated bureaucracy. He has not been in cahoots with the football team in his life, and he has even repeatedly exposed the dirtiness between the football association and the club, becoming a hero of the anti-football association bureaucracy; at the same time, he has taken over the Argentine national team for an annual salary of millions of dollars. The contradictory trait became his most attractive point. Who wouldn't love a union of angels and demons? He is like the cynical, good and evil male protagonist in American movies, always attracting people's attention.
When Messi was called Maradona's successor, some people even scoffed: no smoking, no drinking, no drug use, married messi, a well-behaved baby messi with no scandals, how can he be worthy of Maradona's four words? How do you deserve the position of leader of the Argentine team? However, Aguero, who slept in the bed next to his room in the national team, Aguero, who had a slight gangster temperament, had a bit of the spirit of an old horse when he was young. Later, everyone knows that Aguero married the daughter of the old horse, although it eventually ended in divorce, but the label of "donkey horse" followed Aguero for many years.
People are saddened by The departure of Maradora Courtesy of Visual China
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In the first half of this year, Maradona had a public appearance. When he walked out of the players' tunnel, he had to be supported by two people to barely walk. Why? This is because he is too good at spoiling himself.
The 1986 World Cup was the highlight of his life, especially against England, which was evocative.
Just 168 centimeters tall, Maradona scored a "header" with his left hand. Before the controversy was over, he once again shocked the world with a superb performance that had been connected to 5 people. In the same game, the ugliest and the best goals appear at the same time, and their creator is Maradona.
The psychological damage caused by this match to the British people for more than 30 years, so that the British media also released a photo of Maradona's handball goal after Maradona's death on the 25th: "This is our favorite place for VAR (video assistant referee)" "Maradona, in the hands of God".
Along with Maradona's rapid rise to fame, there were drugs. In 1984, Maradona's move from Barcelona to Naples became the symbol of the city of Naples. When the old horse arrived in Naples, the local gang sent a car to pick him up. From then on, Maradona began smoking cocaine. In 1990, Maradona received allegations of drug use, and drug testing before the 1994 World Cup in the United States once again disgraced the king.
The drugs not only affected his physical health, but also caused serious damage to Maradona's spirit. Maradona's temper became more and more obedient, and he even drew a gun to shoot a reporter, and his relationship with his wife and children was once very tense.
In January 2000, Maradona, 39, suddenly had trouble breathing at his residence in Montevideo, Uruguay's capital, and was taken to a hospital for emergency treatment. In the ambulance, Maradona's heartbeat stopped and her breathing even stopped for a few seconds. Just when people thought Maradona couldn't be saved, his heartbeat miraculously recovered. Later, doctors examined the obvious cocaine components in his blood and urine.
The old horse who had walked in the ghost gate suddenly began to wake up and began a difficult drug rehabilitation, but the damage of the drug refused to let him go. His weight rose rapidly after drug rehabilitation, and he suffered from severe hypertension and dilated cardiomyopathy. In order to lose weight, Maradona even cut off part of his stomach, and after 10 years, he underwent another gastric incision, and in both surgeries, Maradona cut off nearly 90% of his stomach.
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Maradona's death has a special significance for Chinese. His influence among Chinese fans is very large, he is a cultural symbol, completing the enlightenment of Chinese post-70s and post-80s fans. Some fans even chose Maradona's name "Diego" when naming their children.
The famous host and Argentine fan Bai Yansong once wrote about his Argentine complex: "The first game I saw on TV was Argentina's opening match against Belgium at the 1982 World Cup opener, which was Maradona's debut performance at the World Cup. In that game, my eyes were around Maradona, and I couldn't believe that there was such a genius on the football field. Unfortunately, argentina lost 0:1 in that match. However, since then, the blue and white Argentine team uniform has firmly rooted in my heart. ”
In 1982, there were still many families in China that did not have televisions, so the 1986 World Cup in Mexico was the first Time many Chinese fans had a World Cup. In that era of television enlightenment, every "hero" who appeared on television became a cultural symbol in the minds of the Chinese people: Guo Jing, who was the legend of the eagle hero, the Chinese women's volleyball team that won the championship... Maradona conquered the hearts of Chinese audiences with the best performance of his life. When Chinese football failed to enter the World Cup, Argentina became the home team in the minds of a generation.
In 2012, Bai Yansong interviewed Maradona, which can be said to be a dream of his. In that interview, Maradona was also quite emotional: "The feeling of wearing an Argentine jersey is unforgettable, like my mother watching me in heaven, I play for her"
Maradona's joy in football is pure and natural, and it is impossible to be moved. Even he himself has said: "If I die and can be born again, I want to be a footballer." I want to do Diego Armando Maradona again. I'm a player who brings joy to people and that's enough for me. ”
In world football, "legendary superstar" is a respect for a player, but if you really want to use "legendary superstar" as a standard, only Maradona and George Best are qualified.
After posting those memories of Maradona in the WeChat circle of friends, another carnival of the years came to an end, only occasionally stopping at the red light on the street corner to see people bustling back and forth, will we cry? For the dream of youth, for you who are running, for the time when you can never go back.
Goodbye, Maradona.
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