Maradona is gone, leaving behind an eternal legend. Photo/Osports
Diego Went, and the globe was in sorrow. In the history of football for more than a hundred years, he has lost a most talented, most maverick, the most red and black existence, and as many people as he loves him, as many people hate him.
In Diego's 60 years as a player, manager, and spectator, countless bosses, subordinates, friends, and opponents who have intersected with his life may be able to outline a more comprehensive and real Diego from their respective perspectives.
Bilardo
He was Maradona's most trusted old boss
Who is the manager who can play maradona's genius the most, or who is the one who can best convince the unruly Diego? Carlos Bilardo, nicknamed "Big Nose", retreated to second place, and I am afraid that no one dared to claim first.
Unlike Maradona, who was born in the grass, no matter whether it is sunny or rainy during his teaching, he always wears a suit and leather shoes, and is personable, more like an elegant academic.
In the 1982 World Cup, the black-footed and red-stained and expelled youth Diego kicked at Batista's lower abdomen really hurt the heart of the 1978 world champion Menotti, but as soon as Bilaldo took over, he did not hesitate to make the "national sinner" Maradona the absolute tactical core. Argentina's tactics, in a nutshell: "The rest of the men hold the goal, and then the offense is left to Maradona." ”
Establishing Maradona at the heart of his position, Bilardo embarked on one of the most earth-shattering changes of his tenure. He stripped the national hero Passarella of the captain's armband and handed it to Maradona, but demanded that he must dedicate 100% of his strength within this month to become a responsible boss. At the beginning of this decision, Bilardo received snowflake threatening letters from fans, especially River Plate fans, who almost killed "Big Nose".
However, Bilardo's gambles are very profitable. In that World Cup, Maradona not only scored goals and assisted a shoulder double, but even the team chose the color of the away team uniform and other small things, personally asked the clapping board, really full of leadership style. From 1983 to 1990, in seven years, Bilardo and Maradona worked together to reach the pinnacle of Argentine football with a world cup title and a division.
Although Belgium coach Tis once sourly mocked Bilardo's limited business ability, "Give me Maradona, Belgium can also win the world championship." However, the managers who have no resonance with Diego, such as Venables, Basile, etc., have already proved more than once that Maradona has only one, and there are not many than Lardo.
As the manager who has been in charge of Maradona for the longest time, Bilardo is almost like Maradona. After the end of the 7-year cooperation of the national team, the two worked with Boca Youth in Seville for 9 years, almost spanning the peak of Maradona.
12 years ago, the whim maradona could not stand the invitation of the Argentine Football Association, and when he first took charge of the national team, Bilardo, who was accustomed to big scenes, was invited by his old subordinates to serve as the sports director of the national team. However, with the defeat of the Argentine team in South Africa, the two who had spent their honeymoons together countless times eventually became suspicious of each other. Maradona attacked Bilardo for "betraying himself", while Bilardo fought back and accused him of being "groundless and crazy" and even threatened to make public a series of secrets from the time they worked together. In a hurry, the old man even turned over the old account, "It was I who led argentina to win the World Cup, not Diego, what level he played in 1985, I know in my heart, I gave him the opportunity." ”
The two masters and apprentices went from feeling the same father and son to being strangers, which was really regrettable, but after many years, the parties concerned had already taken the grudge lightly.
Bilardo recalled the 2010 World Cup last year with vivid metaphors: "The Argentine Football Association kicked the ball to Maradona at the wrong time, but even more wrong was that Diego received the ball." It's all ridiculous and lacks seriousness about football. Asked who was better, Maradona or Messi, Big Nose didn't hesitate, "Messi cashed in more talent, but Maradona was clearly more talented." ”
Maradona "Hand of God". Profile picture
Peter Hilton
He is Maradona's number one background board
'The first goal, he offended God, but it must be admitted that when the second goal happened, he was God. After 34 years, when Maradona drove the crane west, Peter Hilton, who lived almost in the shadow of the "hand of God" for the rest of his life, finally let go of his obsession with the enemy. Of the many opponents Maradona has beaten in his lifetime, Hilton may not be the most famous, sad, and unlucky one, but it must be the one that is most often mentioned.
To be fair, the Anglo-Afghan war at the 1986 World Cup was less strategic than the semi-finals and finals of the Pampas Army. However, after the Anglo-Armagh War 4 years ago, this narrow encounter has been given too much meaning beyond the game from the time the duel came out.
Maradona, who is at the eye of the storm, looks light and breezy on the surface. In an interview with The Times, his opening remarks were: "Hey, man, I just play football, I don't know anything about politics, really, I don't know anything." Whenever asked about sensitive topics, the cunning Diego always detoured to the pre-World Cup, the commemorative tournament he played at White Hart Lane, and praised Glenn Hoddell's technique even more.
However, At this time, Hodel, who is nearing the twilight of his career, has long been unable to restrain the old horse, and all england have pinned their hopes for victory on captain Peter Hilton, the legendary Everton goalkeeper, although he is 37 years old, is still the mainstay of the Three Lions, especially in the case that the England team's pressing tactics have not worked, hilton's save seems to be the key to preventing Maradona from breaking the goal. Although the two captains exchanged flags and shook hands before the game, they were smiling, but as the game progressed, the atmosphere had long since returned to tension.
After the slightly bland first half, only 5 minutes after the opening of the second half, England's Hodge inadvertent mistake became a turning point in the game, Maradona suddenly stepped forward, and Hilton struggled to compete for this high and far back pass, Hilton in the penalty area, undoubtedly the one who hit the ball with his hand was more reasonable, but the Englishman watched the old horse, who was nearly 20 centimeters shorter than himself, hit the ball into the bottom of the net with a hidden left hand, and did not wait for everyone to come back, and began to run wildly to celebrate.
When Tunisian referee Benasser pointed his finger into the center circle, Hilton, who has always been known for his gentleness and calmness, rushed out of the box and ran straight to the referee, roaring to explain to him what had just happened. In the face of the Englishman's questioning, the Argentine No. 10, with a mocking face, only pointed at his head with his left hand to complete the goal.
What happened next, there is no need to repeat it. After Peter Reid, Stevens, Butcher and Fenwick were snuck off by the Argentine geniuses, the outgoing Hilton gambled everything, but all the efforts of the England goalkeeper were in vain - Maradona even swept the ball past him and then swept the ball into the empty goal. In the face of this irreproducible goal, England coach Robson was extremely helpless, "We did nothing wrong, just a genius beat half of our players. ”
Hilton, who was humiliated twice by Maradona, spent the rest of his life struggling for the "hand of God", "this goal is remembered for the wrong reasons." I did everything I could, and that famous photo showed that I was closer to the ball than his head, which is why he touched the ball with his hand. People always say: 'Wow, he jumps faster than you'. But he didn't have it at all, he just lied to everyone. He's a great player, but for me, he doesn't deserve respect. ”
Since then, at the time of Maradona's downfall, many good people have hoped that Hilton and Maradona will go on TV together, but the former will not hesitate to refuse, "I will not shake his hand." At the World Cup just two years ago, Hilton launched the "most important vote of his life", allowing fans to decide on social media whether he wanted to meet Maradona. Until last year, when talking about VAR's misjudgment and missed judgment in the Premier League, Hilton was a resolute supporter, "His (Maradona)'s cheating destroyed england, how good it would be if the 1986 World Cup had VAR!" ”
However, despite suffering one of the most famous misjudgments in the history of football, and witnessing and witnessing the two sides of Maradona's devil and angels, Hilton did not lose its historical position because of this defeat. But it's funny that since then, the England goalkeeper has repeatedly become the background board for south American superstar fame – 16 years later, David Seaman, who is older than Hilton, is more embarrassed than his predecessors when facing Ronaldinho's "flying fairy".
Maradona and Mateus. Profile picture
Mateus
He was Maradona's lifelong enemy
Just a month and a half before Maradona's death, Beckenbauer, Klinsmann, Bremer, Worrell, Augenthaler and other German football stars gathered in Tuscany, Italy, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of winning the 1990 World Cup. They beat in the final precisely argentina, which owns Maradona.
At that time, the tactical core and leader of the Germanic chariot was precisely Mateus, who was only half a year younger than the old horse. From the national team to the club, the two men who have always fought each other at the peak of their careers can be called a moment of light around the 1990s.
Without Diego, the brightest star of the 1986 World Cup, it was clearly Mateus. In the quarter-finals, Mateus killed Morocco with a free kick; in the quarterfinals against host Mexico, he scored the third time in the penalty shootout. However, Mateus, who was inseparable from Maradona in the final, although he did not let the former break the goal directly, he still could not stop Diego's fatal pass to Bruchaga. Spelling to the yellowed Lothar, he realized the taste of the defeat of Beckenbauer in the 1970 World Cup.
Although coming from two continents, the pairing extended from the World Cup to Serie A. In 1988, Mateus moved to Inter Milan and formed the "German Troika" with teammates Bremer and Klinsmann. Prior to this, Napoli, led by Maradona, became a Serie A upstart.
At that time, Napoli was extremely enthusiastic about football, especially Maradona, and the Stadio San Paolo, which could accommodate 85,000 people, was full all year round. After witnessing Maradona lead the team to beat Juventus, 5 Napoli fans fainted from excitement on the spot, and the two suffered a heart attack. Before Maradona leaves the house, he has to stick his head out of the Ferrari sports car and receive kisses from the fans one by one, and almost every Napolian will have two hanging pictures hanging at the head of the bed: God and Maradona.
Maradona has only one word for Naples: home.
However, the arrival of Mateus changed all that. In the 1988-1989 season, Inter won Serie A, and although Napoli was crowned again in the 1989-1990 season, the Nerazzurri, which won the Italian Super Cup, still maintained pressure on their opponents. In that summer's World Cup battlefield, the "two horses" met again in the final, but the victory and defeat were very different from 4 years ago, although Mateus, who called himself "loose shoelace", did not take the penalty to determine the outcome of the game, but after the defeat, the tearful Diego, madly vented into the microphone: "FIFA and all the referees are mafia." ”
Before that, with Argentina eliminating host Italy in the semi-finals, Napoli, which used to regard Maradona as the true god, was no longer intimate with the king of the ball. With the urine test incident in the east window, the old horse became an outcast overnight from a darling, and the tax evasion and illegitimate child storm once made Italy refuse the entry of the ball king. At the inaugural Mr. Of the Year of the World Awards in 1991, FIFA's highest honor was awarded to Mateus, not Maradona. The wind comments in the anecdotes are like the beginning of Diego's transformation from red to black.
Despite having a similar career length, being a leader in their respective national teams, and wearing the No. 10 shirt for many years, it is ironic that Mateus became maradona in German football after retiring. In addition to changing girlfriends every three to five minutes, spraying everything has also become the daily routine of Mateus, and in the player era, Mateus, who has always been known for his rigor, dedication and iron blood, has always stood against the old horse.
Caniggia
He was Maradona's most loyal "disciple"
25 years ago, in the A-League stadium, there was a scene that made people blush and beat their hearts. The blonde-haired No. 10 sent a straight plug, and the same blonde No. 7 received the ball and easily got rid of the goalkeeper and pushed the empty goal. After scoring, No. 7 rushed all the way to No. 10, picked up the latter's already blessed round face, and kissed the latter's thick lips fiercely, and it was a tongue kiss for 6 minutes!
At that time, the two people, whose average age was 32 years old, performed a passionate "twilight love". It is Maradona and his lifelong comrade-in-arms, Caniggia, who challenges the threshold of the defenders of football.
Before the 1990 World Cup, Caniggia and Maradona seemed to be at odds. Compared with the old horse that Boca regards as the true god, the "Son of the Wind" was born in river plate youth training, Maradona joined the giants Barcelona as soon as he arrived in Europe, and Caniggia made Verona, who has no sense of existence, the first stop in Europe.
All this did not prevent the Italian summer, when the two people, who were 7 years apart in age, joined forces to destroy the city. When the old horse who fought with injuries was under siege and could not even rely on penalties, it was Caniggia who "broke out" again and again, sealing his throat with a sword. In the quarter-finals, the enemy Brazil was shot down, Maradona in the four-man siege sent a fatal slash, and the unattended Caniggia closed his throat with a sword, becoming the deepest pain of the Samba Legion at the end of the last century.
Argentina's hopes of defending the title began with Caniggia's rise, but it also ended with Caniggia's suspension. In the World Cup final, Argentina almost did not have the ability to fight back, ending with an ugly performance that was sent off by the two. Caniggia became the biggest highlight of this inexhaustible journey. For the next four years, in Maradona's frequent absences, Caniggia not only turned the tide, but even sometimes played the role of an old horse. In the 1991 Copa America, Caniggia scored 2 goals and assisted 4 times, leading the team to an easy coronation; in the 1994 World Cup group stage, when Batistuta faced Nigeria, it was the 27-year-old Caniggia who scored twice, thus locking the Blue and White for the Blue and White.
As Maradona's most loyal disciple, Caniggia's life trajectory is also strikingly similar to or even coincident with that of the old horse. When Maradona was banned for testing positive for cocaine, Caniggia also fell on a urine test in Italy, a 13-month ban that made roma fans' revered "children of the wind" addicts. Maradona carried Claudia on her back and fooled around with multiple lovers, while her hair-bound wife, who had doubts about Caniggia's fidelity, had also run naked in the street after a big fight with her husband. Of course, the most famous resistance is also the two people's ridicule of the then national team coach Passarella, when the "iron marshal" asked the national team players not to wear long hair, earrings, otherwise they will be expelled from the team, the first to jump out of the opposite tone of Caniggia, still have long hair, wear earrings, even Diego himself, rarely wear gold earrings to play, in solidarity with old friends.
As Diego's most reliable comrade-in-arms and loyal disciple, Caniggia's curtain call is the same as that of the old horse. Maradona's last glimpse of the World Cup was when he was eliminated by Romania in the 1994 1/8 final, and he cried in the stands because he could only watch from the sidelines because of the prohibition of drugs, and he cried in Claudia's arms. In the 2002 World Cup, he unexpectedly became the eldest of Argentina's 23 "children of the wind", in the out-of-the-box battle between Argentina and Sweden, he was invited to the stands for accusing the referee, and he lit a cigarette in the stands when he made zero appearances on the trip to Japan and South Korea...
Coincidentally, when the bad news of Diego's death came, the "Children of the Wind", who had previously prayed for Maradona's blessing, had only a few words on social media - "Rest in peace, my brother", and the picture of saying goodbye to his best friend was also a black-and-white photo of Diego spitting clouds and fog - after all, the old Horse had lived in Cuba for many years in the early 20th century, loved cigars, and the two had 30 years of liver and gallbladder, still ending with each other's most smelly habits.
Messi and Maradona. Photo/Osports
Messi
He is Maradona's most reliable successor
"It's been a very sad day for all Argentines and footballers. He left us, but neither did he, because Diego is eternal. After learning the news of the old horse's death for the first time, Messi wrote emotionally on social media. In the past 40 years, the search for and god-making journey of the "next Diego" has been repeated countless times in Ortega, Aimar, D'Alessandro and others. Today, Messi is perhaps the one closest to ending this suspense, but letting it continue to spread.
In terms of age, Messi is Maradona's son and nephew. In their careers, Messi and Maradona have a lot in common, they also entered the club team at the age of 17, also led the team to win the World Youth Championship, also completed the "Hand of God" and "five people in a row", and also ate the first red card of the national team career for violating opponents in the green years... However, in the longer dimension, Maradona is the reference of Messi's life and an unavoidable topic hanging over his head. In this regard, messi, who is not good at words, has long hoped to end the comparison, "I play a million years, and I will not be able to reach the level of Diego." ”
For the younger generations, Maradona, who has always been harsh, almost never admits that Messi surpassed himself, even if Messi at club level has been almost perfect. What is even more bizarre is that between 2008 and 2010, the two actually completed a World Cup journey as manager and team player. Unfortunately, the coaching career is mostly playing tickets, and the only serious one has not sparked with Messi. During the qualifiers, it was the 35-year-old "madman" Palermo who saved the old horse from the water and fire; the highlight of the World Cup was Tevez and Higuain, and Messi, who handed over 0 goals and 0 assists, gained the worst performance of the 5 World Cup journey, especially in the context of the Golden Ball 4 consecutive times, this contrast is particularly eye-catching.
However, Maradona still has a gift to Messi. During his two years together, Maradona has more than once demonstrated how Messi can take free kicks, adding a frightening weapon in the second half of his career. Maradona's response to Messi has not changed even after stepping down as the manager of the national team.
Two years ago in Russia, Maradona contributed the most memes to Messi in the stands. From the frustration of witnessing Messi missing a penalty, to the prayers and wild roars of Argentina when he killed Nigeria for life and death, a true temperament of the audience old horse, although it failed to make the Argentine team change its fate, but let the Pampas legion's tragic journey add another thick ink. Although the short-term cooperation between the two did not spark, the lonely and proud ball king in his life paid tribute to the descendants who most resembled him in the purest and most sincere way in the last years of his life.
Tevez
He was Maradona's favorite bad boy
Among the vast "Diego successors", Tevez is obviously not the most similar one, but the one who is most favored by the king of the ball. The "beast", who came from the slums like Maradona, put into practice Diego's famous saying: "If I have a leather ball, I am rich." ”
Admittedly, Tevez, who was used as a center in his debut, is not a Maradona-style commander, but like Maradona who was cut by scissor feet, back tackles, and pulls in the 80s, Tevez, who has a mixture of courage, always chooses to retaliate with tit-for-tat, full of morale, which makes Diego see himself when he was young. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Argentina won the first World Series of the century, scoring eight goals and taking off the Golden Boot, Tevez was no different from maradona when he led the team to win the World Cup in 1986.
Born in Boca and wearing the no. 10 to win the Argentine First Division and the Copa Libertadores, Maradona's unfulfilled ambitions in Argentina were all fulfilled by his junior Tevez. It is no wonder that Maradona paid the most attention, trust, and even unconditional support to this grumpy, well-behaved bad boy.
Tevez was unhappy at Manchester United, maradona was the first to stand up and blast Ferguson, "Why let Tevez play on the flanks and give way to Cristiano Ronaldo in the middle?" Ferguson just didn't like Tevez. "The Beast" moved to Manchester City, was sent to sit in the stands for refusing to come off the bench, and the old horse was furious again, "Mancini is ungrateful, who helped him win the Premier League?" And when Batista made the decision not to call Tevez to the national team, Maradona showed no mercy, "Who can tell me, is there a better striker than Tevez?" If you don't choose his head coach, is it too much alcohol or too much medicine? ”
In his only one World Cup coaching trip, Maradona gave Tevez enough trust. Although the team claimed that Argentina was "Mascherano and 10 others", on the offensive end, Tevez, who was reluctant to pass messi, got maradona's acquiescence and performed better in the World Cup in South Africa. Maradona's assessment of the love general is even more poignant: "In the World Cup in South Africa, is there a striker who performs as well as 30% of Tevez? ”
Unfortunately, when Maradona went down, the aura surrounding Tevez's head also disappeared. What people see is a bad boy whose skills are fading, but his temper and temperament are getting longer and longer, and he seems to focus on the dark side of Diego's personality. Almost more than half of Diego's arguments about the use of national teams are related to Tevez. Even after Tevez's short trip to the Chinese Super League, Maradona applauded Tevez, "Made enough money in China, and returned to Boca, perfect!" ”
Things are clustered in groups, people are divided into groups, and they are like Maradona, and they are not exempt from vulgarity. In the second half of his life, Maradona "complained" about Tevez's "grievances" more times. Fernando, the physicalist who had a deep influence on Maradona's career, always likes to say that Diego and Maradona are two people: "If you were Diego, I could follow you all the way to the end; but if you were Maradona, I think I would stop at some point." Diego is pure and sincere, but Maradona is a rebellious, cunning, vain and pompous man. ”
Maradona and Aguero were once in love with father and son. Photo/Visual China
Aguero
He was Maradona's saddest former son-in-law
Among the many post-80s successors, the relationship between Aguero and Maradona should have been the closest, but the ending was the most lamentable. Seven years ago, Manchester City's historical goalscorer king was still the dragon king's son-in-law, but in the past 7 years, the two have not only almost cut off each other, but also frequently talked viciously. In the Champions League group stage this morning, Aguero, who came on as a substitute, remembered his father-in-law, wondering if the old horse in heaven would choose to forgive?
The old horse, who has a rich love history, may not be loyal enough to his wife Claudia, but he is very fond of his two daughters, especially the young daughter Jenina. When photos of Aguero and Jennifer taking a kiss in 2008 were released by the paparazzi, the angry old horse even tried to duel with Aguero, but as the relationship between the two young people quickly heated up, "daughter slave" Diego put aside his prejudices. In 2009, Maradona's grandson Benjamin was born, and Aguero became a standing member of maradona's national team, with the symbolic number 16 , which Maradona also wore when he debuted as a young Argentine.
However, the good times did not last long, and after the World Cup, the relationship between Aguero and Jennifer quickly cooled down. Jenina's girlfriend Carina took advantage of the situation and paired up with Aguero, and their marriage ended in 2013. Despite spoiling his grandson, when it comes to the negative man Aguero, Maradona really only hates and has no love for this former son-in-law, "Nest and soft eggs, I don't even want to mention his name." In the family's group photo that year, Aguero was completely blackened, as if he had never existed.
Even more ridiculous is the fact that Maradona, who was on holiday in Croatia in 2014, opened his mouth to a passerby after getting drunk at a nightclub, "Aguero! You xx raised! After the scolding, the old horse also picked up a wine bottle and smashed it on the ground, and made a fist movement, eager to beat the "Aguero" in front of him.
The old horse's anger against Aguero even extended to the national team, and Aguero, who was a close friend of Messi, could only succumb to the substitute in the best of form. Although Aguero's 39 national team goals are more than Maradona's 34, the feud between the "former son-in-law" and the old horse is obviously not resolved in a day and a half.
Aguero's affair certainly annoyed Diego, but why wasn't the old Horse Buddha when he was young? Sinagra, who went on holiday to a friend's house in 1985, happened to live in the house next to Maradona's house, "He was humorous and attractive, and we spent a lot of time in his house, so when I found out I was pregnant, I wasn't surprised at all, because we all know what he did at the time." After many years, Maradona admitted that there were too many beautiful passers-by in his life, they were all intelligent and elegant, and he was "not a saint." "All men make mistakes", two generations of Weng and son-in-law, the same destination.
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