Wen/Wu Qiang Everyone has a hometown.
Diego Maradona's hometown is not Buenos Aires, but "Fiorito".
This is a slum in the urban-rural area of the Argentine capital, or to put it more bluntly, a shantytown. When he was young, his family was poor, his materials were scarce, and the degree of food, sleep, and clothing had nothing to do with the "capital", and if he had to say it, it had to be the "eighteen-line capital standard".
Therefore, throughout his life, Diego had a strong love for "Fiorito", but also a strong "hatred". Here, he had no books to read, no good food to eat, and he had to squeeze in with 7 other siblings when he slept. Here, before the age of 10, Diego knew how to survive on the streets and how to be honest and how to interact with people cunningly. What's more, here, he has football. He gave everything to football and football gave him everything.
▲ With football, he and his family walked out of the "Fiorito", but mentally, he has always regarded countless "Fiorito" as the "holiest" place in Argentina, and he always thinks of it with tears.
The year after Diego retired, he was awarded the Honorary Doctoral Supervisor Honor by the University of Oxford. The best university in the UK, awarded the honor of a PhD supervisor for an Argentine who "humiliated" them at the World Cup! This is a topic of great joy! But Diego cried bitterly at the scene and sincerely declared that he had not read a book, and everyone should not learn from him. Yes, he never hid his slum origins, nor did he hide his regret and sadness about this humble origin.
Therefore, the hometown of "Fiorito" gave Maradona a deep imprint of the soul. With all the savagery, cunning, selflessness, survival, fighting spirit, and all the obscurity, sophistication and earthiness there, he rushed to the pitch, rushed to the opponent's goal, and then conquered the whole of Buenos Aires, then Spain, Italy, and the whole world.
And then what? When Diego conquered the whole world with football, he found that no matter what opponents he defeated on the football field and how much he achieved, he was still the poor boy Diego Armando Maradona who was the original "Fiorito".
In February 1994, Maradona terminated his contract with the Newells Old Boys Club, and a large number of reporters surrounded his house. The old horse had a violent temper attack at home, and even took an air gun and shot at the reporter outside, fortunately, it did not hurt anyone. In 2013, Maradona beat up a fellow passenger on a flight to Buenos Aires, argentina; after getting off the plane, he stopped on the highway and picked up a rock on the ground to smash the reporter.
He can't save "Fiorito", can't eliminate poverty, can't even heal his seriously ill teammates, as the king of the ball, he is one of the most important people in the world from a certain point of view, but he still can't use the power outside of football, with the rules and systems of this world, to change the world. Because he naturally cannot be a superior person, he cannot enter the rules and systems.
In short, Maradona, the king of the ball, found that he and the whole world could not get along well. Even based on this, he could not get along well with himself at some moments.
This is a huge paradox. When Maradona has become a symbol, the more omnipotent he is on the pitch, the more powerless he feels in the real world; in turn, the more he sinks and degenerates in real life, the more he wants to prove himself on the pitch with his only talent and conquer the world.
Maradona has a deep friendship with fidel Castro, the leader of the Cuban revolution, former Venezuelan President Chávez, former Bolivian President Morales and others, and on his body there are tattoos on the heads of Castro and the Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara. Maradona first visited Cuba in 1987 to meet Castro, and since then he has traveled to Cuba several times between 2000 and 2005 to receive treatment for drug rehabilitation, alcoholism and excessive obesity, and has formed friendships with Castro, who he also called his "second father". Fidel Castro died on the same day four years ago.
This paradox, along the curve of Maradona's playing career, continues to grow, dark and glorious mixed together, accompanied by the screams of the whole world, pushing Maradona to the altar, and then falling into the mud - he began to take drugs in barcelona, but at that time secretly smoked, never discovered, when he was exposed to drug addiction in the late Napoli, in fact, there were several years of drug history, and it was during this period that Maradona experienced the peak of his football career, Then in the 1991 Serie A and 1994 World Cups, Maradona twice urinated twice to detect bans.
Beginning in 2005, Serbian film master Kusturica spent two years filming the most authentic and outstanding documentary of the king of the ball in his life. At that time, Maradona successfully lost weight and also "quit" poisoning. In the two years of shooting, the film master let the king of the ball completely open the door. In the film, Lao Ma admitted to the world for the first time that he had been secretly taking drugs since his time in Barcelona, and to the camera, he was even more sincere and remorseful to say that he had always known that a non-drug Maradona would be a perfect player! Unfortunately, at that time, he also knew that he had made mistakes, but nothing could be changed.
According to common sense, this is an incomprehensible fact, Lao Ma's four World Cups, the peak of 12 years, is actually his history of drug addiction - which naturally includes promiscuity and alcoholism. As Lao Ma himself said, if a non-drug addictive him, in these 12 years, how terrifying will it be in the football world?
▲ The old horse who indulges in the world is of course accompanied by countless beautiful women, but his love for his daughter has never been reserved. He and Claudia's child, Dalma, the girl was perhaps the softest piece of Maradona's heart, when he taught his daughter, who could not speak, that Juve was, Milan was, and only Napoli was the champion. When he is mired in drugs, only his daughter can awaken his last remaining guilt: "Every day when I come home from drug addiction, I am so scared to see my daughter that I can only lock myself in the bathroom. ”
But everything has no ifs. If you really want to assume an if, then you must start with "if the old horse is not born in the slums" - he has a good birth, a good education, can also play good football, he abides by professional ethics, clean himself, he lives in harmony with his profession, with himself and the world; but he no longer has the determination and will to fight with the world and himself, naturally there will be no miracles in the 86 World Cup and the 90 World Cup, and then after retiring from the country, be a good coach, no longer bad, be some image ambassador, or like Reinkel, Talk about the ball every day, send a push, save a wave of traffic, and feel good.
In my heart, I've always thought that the miracles at maradona stadium and the chaos of life are two sides of the same coin. His power on the pitch applies only to the pitch and is powerless in the real world. This is actually a common disease of most slum stars in South America, we know the old horse after Adriano, Xiao Luo, and even including Ronaldo, they through their own efforts and talents, with the help of football this channel, 10 years into the top of the world, but the bones of the "slum hometown complex", as well as poor cultural accomplishment, and let them stand in this high position after the overwhelm.
However, the conflict between Maradona's inner world and the real world is more intense than that of all other South American stars, because he wants to see through reality, wants to see through the world, wants to change injustice, wants to eliminate poverty, and wants to change the world. Therefore, in the real world, in private life, chaotic, in public life, he is also a tough and clumsy leftist.
In 2008, Maradona was hired as the head coach of the Argentine national team. For a time, the Argentine fans were extremely excited, and their "God" came back. But Maradona was never able to become Argentina's savior again. At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Argentina stopped in the quarter-finals and Maradona was dismissed. Argentine fans sighed: "If even Maradona can't save Argentina, then Argentina really can't save it." "Yes, the problem of Argentine football is far from being solved by a Maradona.
He cannot be a refined egoist, nor can he be a revolutionary or a politician. Even the coaches can't do it well. But all this did not prevent him from constantly chattering and squirting at various leading figures after retiring, until in the eyes of many leading figures, he was just an old troll, an old bastard, an old bastard. It's just that no matter how the leading figures think of Maradona, the old horse is still a hero to ordinary people, not only because of his past on the court, but also because of his strong underground atmosphere and division.
At the end of Kusturica's documentary, he specially arranged for two Buenos Aires street singers to sing "If I Were Maradona" for the old horse: "... If I were Maradona, I would not make any more mistakes. If I were Maradona, I would be lost at any time. If I were Maradona, there was a game I needed to win... Life is a gamble in black and white, and life continues in it..." Maradona, who stood by, wore sunglasses and quietly burst into tears.
It was about 2007, and more than 10 years later, Lao Ma finally ended his life of black and white, indistinguishable from god, and he stopped gambling in life and stopped the fierce conflict in his heart. He could finally rest in peace.