HBO presents Diego Maradona: Oct 1

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I've honestly lost count how many farewells and tributes Diego has gotten in Argentina after he retired in 97'. But it's been a lot.

So...after going full fukkery by going to Sinaloa to become manager, he bloated up again and went back to looking in real bad shape. But Diego gotta Diego, so he's basically convinced to take the Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata manager gig. And of course, it's been a cotdamn circus :russ:

1) Gimnasia is fighting relegation and has a horrible team. It would take a miracle for them to keep their spot. This Diego hiring screams money grab so they can get a some sellouts for home games and sell a bunch of shirts and all types of merchs.

2) Other teams are taking advantage of Maradona's "return" and are giving him tributes. This is what Talleres de Córdoba pulled off for dude.


3) Diego has promised a bunch of shyt and of course hasn't done much. The most hilarious one was that he bowed to never miss 1 training session and to be hands on...and on the first week he missed a couple of days. He's looking like 2000 Maradona so wouldn't be shocking if he ends up in the Hospital again. Most people expect him to step down sooner rather than later.


This motherfukker creates fukkery like no one else. Even Tyson stopped with the bullshyt but Diego gonna :mjgrin: to his grave :wow:

Breh you didn’t mention the Middle East “coaching years”

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Napoli fans are still the same. One of the best atmospheres in football. They treat players like idols there. They get robbed and the under world recovers it, they look out for their own.

He and Michael Jackson suffered from the same pressure. Treated like Gods, it was too much.

Hopes of a family, team, city, and country on his shoulders. He was going to be a Coke head either way but I do wonder what would’ve happened if he played for Real Madrid, Liverpool, or Milan.

Ghost of Diego haunting Argentinian football.
 

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The GOAT

Napoli fans are still the same. One of the best atmospheres in football. They treat players like idols there. They get robbed and the under world recovers it, they look out for their own.

He and Michael Jackson suffered from the same pressure. Treated like Gods, it was too much.

Hopes of a family, team, city, and country on his shoulders. He was going to be a Coke head either way but I do wonder what would’ve happened if he played for Real Madrid, Liverpool, or Milan.

Ghost of Diego haunting Argentinian football.

So much to unwrap here, but starting with props!!!

That whole Napoli vs Italy ish is real..... The north of Italy (Milan, Turin (Juventus), Florence, even Rome, looks a alllll the way down on Southern Italy. It's some regionalistic ish to the nth degree. No brehs should play in Italy, esp. if they have thin skin. Looking at you, Lukaku. One of my most authentic travel stops of this year was to Napoli. Nowhere near as shiny as tourist-ready cities like Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan. The Toledo/Latin Quarter area was bustling with regular local folks and college kids. Wish I had spent more time there. But, I was warned many several, not to go to the football matches or San Paolo stadium. I didn't go.

It's true that there are/were two separate identities, Diego and Maradona. Diego is the proud, driven footballer from the streets. Maradona is the football god, on and off the pitch. Maradona kicked Diego's ass after that 2nd World Cup win, right after Argentina beat Italy in that semifinal win by penalties. I blame the greedy Napoli owner for not honoring Diego's request to be transferred after the 1st Serie A win. It seemed like, at that stage, Diego still had some control of the drug thing and wanted to escape Napoli's (fame off the pitch, Camorra) influence on him. After the owner ignored the request, Maradona gave zero Fs. Partying from Sunday til Wednesday, cleanup for training until Sunday, then repeat.

Diego being cool with all of the Guiliani (Camorra) family, and not realizing until he got that late night wakeup call that they owned him as Maradona and his family...no matter how many Rolexes they gave him..... Once they got him hooked on coke, Maradona's sloppiness with the coke and whores, brought so much exposure to them that they just walked away from him, leaving him out there as a very high-profile dope fiend in the streets. Man was he sloppy with it.

Maybe I missed it, but did they show the major Barcelona v Bilboa brawl that got him kicked out of Barcelona?

Maradona lived for the biggest moments on the biggest stage, and won everywhere he went, no matter the surrounding talent. He did it against ruthless defense tactics. The reason that Argentina has any international acclaim is solely based on Maradona, who carried his WC teams to a title and a near second one. Won at Barcelona and Napoli, in which HE is the reason the Napoli is even talked about. They were nothing before him.

This was a really well-done documentary. Lots of rare footage of him in those times, football-wise and personal. The several angles of the "Hand of God" as well as the more dynamic 2nd goal vs England. It was crazy that they had the footage of when Guiliani called him and made him and his family follow him into the heart of Naples in the middle of the night. I'll definitely re-watch this.
 

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don't think so...the doc stuck mainly to his Napoli years & yea I'm buying the blu ray when it drops
I don’t follow soccer, but they did show a big ass brawl at the very beginning of the documentary. He had on a Barcelona jersey so I assume that was it. He kicked the fukk out of some dudes.
 
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