□ Red Star News commentator Jiang Yi
The Argentine Football Association's "obituary" succinctly conveys the weight of Maradona to the sport of football – "Farewell, Diego." In the hearts of everyone in the football world, you are eternal. ”
In fact, we are tired of using "eternity" to define some great people or events, but Maradona is a world-class exception. In the eyes of many people, without him, the history of football in the 20th century would have been 10% less alcohol, 30% swear words, 50% controversy, 70% madness and 99% fairytale color.
Maradona documentary poster
Why is Maradona's technology unparalleled? If you have watched any Argentine match in the 1986 World Cup, you can see that he is the only person on the football field who can perfectly combine God's sense of mission and Wei Xiaobao's talent, and his height of 1 meter 65 plays a shocking trick that has never been seen in the football world. Once he left the stadium, he was a god of bad deeds, a god of sin, the closest of the gods to man. Everyone can find in Maradona this or that human weakness, at least the weakness of men: lustful, gluttonous, alcoholic; habits of making bad, not accustomed to honesty; like to show off, show off too much and not take any responsibility.
"Such a god would never retire in Argentina." This is what Galeano wrote to Maradona that year. The flag was lowered at half-mast, the nation mourned for three days, and the state funeral was not enough, and this was only the beginning of Argentina's commemoration of the surname Maradona. On the day of Madame Perón's funeral, 700,000 people mourned Evita's coffin, and people repeatedly shouted the name of "Evita", and some people cried and fainted on the spot, just for her sentence "I am ready to burn my life for the poor". And Maradona' "Falklands War" against England on June 22, 1986 alone, was no longer just a star in the country, but a national hero.
To mourn Maradona, we must see what the Argentine people say, we must see what Boca says, we must see what Naples say, we must see what England says, these people who let Maradona's heart and lungs before he died understand the meaning of Maradona the most. Unfortunately, Castro had already driven the crane to the west, otherwise his eulogy would have been very important. 26 years ago, Margo used castro's best Havana cigars as mosquito repellent water, and Castro shared a well-deserved quote with him: You and I are the kind of leaders who can't wear suits. Maradona replaced Che Guevara with the Cuban leader's avatar, and in the end, the two fans chose November 25 as their death day.
Argentina's standard "gods" are largely untargeted, and the Argentine football passages told through their mouths are the most bizarre and barbaric stories, which will never lack listeners in this once richest South American country. In the past 10 years, many people have compared Messi with Maradona, in fact, such a comparison is absurd from a logical point of view. When Margot blackfooted, Messi's parents had not yet begun to fall in love. When Margo performed the Hand of God and slashed six generals through five levels, Messi was not yet born. Messi said in person 10 years ago: Even if I play for another million years, I can't get close to or become Maradona. Messi's distance from the old horse is the distance between a well-behaved child and a street fighter. In the minds of Argentines, Maradona is a god like man, while Messi is just a god-like person. When Margo gets up and says goodbye, those who love to compare will eventually find that Messi's distance from Argentina is his distance from Maradona.
Masashi made an exception here in Maradona to favor a bad boy. "Tell the children to worship learned people and not to worship me, I only went to elementary school. A man who has only attended elementary school is a donkey. Margot is Patton, the surging gun roses after the Normandy landings can't kill Patton, the general died in a car accident fishing home shortly after the armistice; in the decades after the 1994 World Cup, Margo has basically never played - drug addiction, shooting journalists, alcoholism, fornication, obesity, hepatitis, heart disease, world touring... The transformation from God to man, he is more painful than a woman giving birth.
The pain also includes those moments he spent 10 years in the Argentine national team manager position. The World Cup needs Margo's unforgettable national hatred, he needs to spread wilderness, he needs his boyish tactics, and he needs his surname, which was originally born for the World Cup. In the 36th minute of the match against Germany, Argentina scored, the result was offside, and 4 attackers were offside at the same time – this scene condensed Margo's full understanding of the sport of football. During his tenure, the 1-6 defeat to Bolivia in the Plateau of La Paz was not really a gamble, but the reason Maradona was loved – 4 strikers is not enough? One more! 5 is not enough? Well, one more... Margo uses being a coach as a building block, but all he has to pile up is the striker. In the Falklands War, the Argentine army under the command of President Galcieri fought hard for the British army, but never fought against the long and fragile supply line of the British army, and Gartieri repeated his point of view: men do not need technology and tactics to fight, they want blood - Maradona is exactly the same as the president who finally stepped down.
Maradona's 60 years have been mostly lonely, and when you are both a genius and a fighter, such loneliness is essential. Platini said Zidane could do it with a football, Maradona could do it with an orange. Scorpio men tend to be geniuses, but Scorpio men rarely have such a naked true temperament as Maradona, and there is a line in Kusturica's documentary: He is a hero in my eyes, not an aristocrat. Not the biggest advantage of the nobility is that there is no need to pretend, tiptoeing with Caniggia's "tongue kiss of the century" is not to say, when the big brother brick mobile phone is popular, he bought five in one go, and what he wants is the "harbor fire" of the urban-rural combination department. His wedding of the century was described by Italian journalists as "the most lavish country black boss party in history." He accompanied Claudia to choose a wedding dress, emphasizing only length; buying a diamond ring and showing off the weight; ordering a cake, he opened his mouth to 10 layers, because he loved the number 10, until the pastry chef told him: "Sorry, Diego, my cream can't build such a tall house..." Maradona's undisguised tackiness made his 60-year-old and his era like a folk song, and also made half the women in Argentina willing to be his ex-girlfriend. The word "man" has long become a vast realm in this Scorpio man.
1986 maradona jersey
Maradona's "mocked" wedding invited all his childhood playmates in the slums, "If I hate them, I am hating my origins." The poor man is the Argentine tango, with its nascent mark on his forehead: the bottom, the hard days. Argentines love Diego deeply, and there is a natural sympathy and pity in the background, it is poverty that prompts him to fight for Boca's blue-yellow jersey, and the candy box is full of poor diamonds. As many margos can come back, how much greatness can come back. Messi's generation of stars is a generation of more pleasure than worry, talented than ambitious, and the World Cup dominated by them will not be hungry, bloody, not flagged, and will not be faith. The sacred aura and poetry of the World Cup are gradually faded by the high and low movement of the stars. Maradona had embraced Messi with the bosom of his father, Aguero, his former son-in-law, the little demons of the Boca youth who were becoming more and more devoid of spirit, and told them about the ancients of Che Guevara, but he still could not tell his hot chest and the love letters of the revolution.
"The mistakes he made were always his own, not involving those around him, and the Argentines understood and tolerated him, like commemorating Borges's ships that docked, and Margo had always docked on the shore, on the banks of the La Plata Mother River." Maradona was still drinking after successful brain surgery, and even before entering the operating room, his ex-girlfriend had said that he was still drinking heavily, and after being discharged from the hospital, doctors warned him that he must quit drinking this time. It doesn't matter if Maradona was drinking before he uttered his last words, "I don't feel well," and it doesn't matter that Dutch flyer Cruyff's 68-year-old life span was cut into the first and second halves by smoke and smokelessness. A person who lives, whether great or humble, and cannot live for his own habits, is better than dead, and people with fetishes always think that they are extremely intelligent in their own world of habits, and that is enough.
The Daily Telegraph's obituary is particularly striking – "He proved in his career that he was a liar, a liar and a megalomaniac in his career, which never lacked drama." The editor-in-chief of this newspaper should go back and think about it - a person's life has so many negatives, but is still loved and worshiped by the whole world, this lying, this liar, this arrogance is not the highest state of?
Fairy tales will eventually disperse, and geniuses will always be shelved.
Maradona went to heaven, still free of self, forever singing my song.
I'm wearing a Maradona jersey
Editor Li Xueli The pictures in this article are provided by the author
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