HBO presents Diego Maradona: Oct 1

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ryderldb said:
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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Maradona also came in wit the flying knee too :jamesbanderas:
 
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BK360NATL said:
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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Imagine the shyt that probably exists on video held by some Napoli underworld locked in vaults.........shyt must be level 10 demonic
 
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Riffi said:
Great doc..but because I’m a big football fan, I already knew most of his story

scumbags turning on him because he won a World Cup game for his country, tho

after all the shyt he did for Napoli :scust:

He’s the best player of all time
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Just goes to show, he was never really one of them (Italian), no matter how much glory he brought to that city. He just made them (Napoli) relevant and somewhat respected. When convenient, they all turned on him. He had already been burning bridges all around Napoli by that time as well. After that Argentina-Italy game and him trying to turn Napoli fans into rooting for Argentina over Italy, yeah, he lost the media support (silence on his over-the-top partying), police support (burying his activities), legal support (failure to pay taxes), club support (stopped covering for him), and worst of all for him at that time, Camorra support (everything).

I think he knew that he should have left after that 1st Serie A title, but the Napolo president was never going to sell him, and as goes in sports, were more than willing accomplices in his downfall. They had no interest in his well-being or state of mind, so long as he could perform on Sundays, which he did. The president even knew about the drugs and the loose drug testing protocols, where Maradona was passing the testing probably because someone else's piss was being used. I don't know the entire story, but I would venture to guess that the Camorra had the club president under their control too, which is how they were probably able to sign Maradona in the first place.
 
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BK360NATL said:
Just goes to show, he was never really one of them (Italian), no matter how much glory he brought to that city. He just made them (Napoli) relevant and somewhat respected. When convenient, they all turned on him. He had already been burning bridges all around Napoli by that time as well. After that Argentina-Italy game and him trying to turn Napoli fans into rooting for Argentina over Italy, yeah, he lost the media support (silence on his over-the-top partying), police support (burying his activities), legal support (failure to pay taxes), club support (stopped covering for him), and worst of all for him at that time, Camorra support (everything).

I think he knew that he should have left after that 1st Serie A title, but the Napolo president was never going to sell him, and as goes in sports, were more than willing accomplices in his downfall. They had no interest in his well-being or state of mind, so long as he could perform on Sundays, which he did. The president even knew about the drugs and the loose drug testing protocols, where Maradona was passing the testing probably because someone else's piss was being used. I don't know the entire story, but I would venture to guess that the Camorra had the club president under their control too, which is how they were probably able to sign Maradona in the first place.
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literally every single possible thing you can imagine is under the thumb of the Camorra...down to the milk in stores, the alternative energy, the cement, the hospitals, the clothing, the distribution of paychecks, who marries who, everything.

It’s different than a typical mafia it’s more of an invisible aura that has infiltrated every segment of life in Campania.

I cannot recommend the movie, series and book “Gomorrah” enough. Each is absolutely mind blowing.
 
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The scenes in Argentina & Naples after winning the World Cup and Scudetto were insane.
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Maradona might have reached peak human being in '86/'87. What a life.
 
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