like the thing about maradona is that he is like an polar opposite of pele which is the other player of his cultural importance like pele said about the brazilian dictatorship “There is no dictatorship in Brazil. Brazil is a liberal country, a land of happiness. We are a free people. Our leaders know what is best for [us], and govern [us] in a spirit of toleration and patriotism.” and complained about muhammed ali not wanting to go to vietnam while maradona was using his position to fight this it is just a huge lost
did you know pele was the first player to ever copyright his name? insane and
Im sure he stans Bolsonaro too
Pele later did ads for dick pills. One of those pecunia non olet characters.
I totally get the gist of what you’re saying. Diego always happened to be on the right side of a lot of shit— so much that it’s hard to begin to explain.
Dude genuinely had socialist tendencies by way of life experience.
Man this one fucking sucks.
Pele is a good house negro
ppl downvoting me, Pele is the perfect definition of Malcolm X' House Negro.
I don’t think that applies to him. I think more of an Obama type when that phrase gets brought up.
Ah, okay, i see now why msm wants to portrait him as an insufferable cokehead.
Hand of God and Goal of the Century in the same game, it's just amazing how epic he was
“My only pleasure this afternoon was in discovering the Italians in Milan have stopped being racists: today, for the first time, they supported the Africans.”
“It was north against south, the racists against the poor,”
“The Neapolitans are being asked to be Italians for one night, while the other 364 days of the year they get called terroni (an Italian slur roughly translated as peasants),”
https://www.goal.com/en-sa/news/maradona-in-our-hearts-italy-in-our-songs-how-diego-split-napoli-/10mhmwfy55ek71smfsfru30l0y
Based as fuck.
Maradona is such a monumental figure one can't even describe him in a few words. The man is quite literally full of contradictions, one would rally around him when he spoke against US Imperialism and in favor of people like Fidel, but at the same time I, as an Argentinian, can't forget details like his support towards neoliberals like Carlos Saul Menem and Domingo Cavallo. Let alone things like being abusive with women, having "parties" in which minors were involved and not recognizing some of his children for a long long time, dark stuff at the very least.
It is a troublesome character, born in the worst of poverty, he took the world by storm thanks to his magical talent with the ball, his personal life.. surrounded by the shittiest people who drove him into drugs, he literally never recovered. (I saw a devastated Maradona when he returned to Buenos Aires to coach Gimnasia de la Plata, he cried a lot during matches, he struggled when he had to speak, sometimes he would go on and derail showing some signs of cognitive decline), his family fighting for wealth, himself being used for a lot of shit like political propaganda and so on.
He is Argentina however, if one could take this entire country and put it in one person the result would be Maradona, sometimes kind, sometimes woke, sometimes insufferable, sometimes abusive, sometimes smart, sometimes talented, sometimes wrong, sometimes very wrong, sometimes philosophical. It's mixed feelings, contradictions, like his two goals against England in 1986, he cheated with the Hand of God, he realised that and went on to score the absolute best and most magical goal in World Cup history just 4 minutes later.. to even things out, so that nobody can say "Argentina won the Cup by cheating". Plus cheating against the TERF island is cool.
RIP.
RIP Maradona. In addition to all the great attention he brought to anti imperialist work in LA he absolutely triggers b*its every time he is mentioned because of the hand of god
He was definitely a heavy user of cocaine. He once celebrated scoring a PK by snorting coke on the field.
So it's not all smear, some of it was legit the dude going off the rails a bit with drug use.
