Another footballing legend gone. FU 2020Diego Maradona has died | 1960 – 2020
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Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
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Another footballing legend gone. FU 2020Lived his life on the extremes. The best in my generation
RiP DAM
RiP DAM
Maradona won them World cup. And (and that is just my guess) Maradona was one of them. Players were more connected to fans in the past. I mean, they were also well payed etc but still you could bump on them in some pub or something like that.
Today kids watch their heroes on some yacht on instagram
25th November, same day Best died.
Feels like yesterday that he coached Argentina. Was too young to really witness him playing in his prime, but he was pretty much all I ever heard about in the mid-late nineties, how no one was anywhere close to how good he just had been. What a life to have lived.
Very sad news.
R.I.P to a true legend of the game.
“El Pibe de Oro”
R.I.P to a true legend of the game.
“El Pibe de Oro”
Man, really sad to hear about Maradona and Best. RIP.
Rip
Artist
Artist
Missed his prime but he was the reason I started supporting the Argentina national team. Being from Thailand you kinda had to adopt a second team. (I also had Italy for the euros).
Simply a magician. A football wizard. Unfortunately he went the flawed genius route rather than the become a billionaire mogul route. Sad stuff. Rip legend. Thanks for everything you did for your country and for football.
Simply a magician. A football wizard. Unfortunately he went the flawed genius route rather than the become a billionaire mogul route. Sad stuff. Rip legend. Thanks for everything you did for your country and for football.
If there's a Mt. Rushmore of football he's certainly on it.
It was his natural footballing intelligence which always astounded me.. he was always two, three yards ahead of other players, and rarely made the wrong decision.. he knew when to run with the ball, when not to, when to keep it simple, when to be the individual, when to just attract players for others... a real player's player. All that, AND a phenomenal talent, and a true inspiration.
isn't Aguero his nephew?
isn't Aguero his nephew?
Will always remember him caught on camera in the crowd at a world cup barking the swears and gesturing wildly at opposition fans. That was quality.
And some of the football as well of course.
And some of the football as well of course.
So sad hearing this news. Diego Maradona was a true great of the game.
His performance in the 86 World Cup will never be forgotten.
Rest in Peace Diego.
His performance in the 86 World Cup will never be forgotten.
Rest in Peace Diego.
I was only 4 years old When Diego drew me into football, death is horrible but when a larger than life character dies it’s seriously hard to take.
My last message goes to you Diego, a true inspiration. May the hand of god take care of you. Rest in Peace.
My last message goes to you Diego, a true inspiration. May the hand of god take care of you. Rest in Peace.
Probably the goat! He transformed Napoli single handed. What he achieved for them is unequalled in the history of football. RIP you were the greatest!
RIP icon
And one footed too. He played when you could get away anything short of murder on the pitch. The best player the World has seen so far.
This! Imagine him in this snowflake era.
My Hero and the reason I fell in love with football.
My son's middle name is Diego .
For the younger guys on here us older grew up when we couldn't see much live football and to see Diego was a treat. 86 was for me the highest level any footballer has ever reached . He was unbelievable in winning Argentina the world cup and was the only reason they got to a final in 90.
He is like a god to so many people and he is that for me .
I'm heart broken tonight my little boy is 10 he's been crying since he came home from school. We will sit tonight like we have for so many years and watch the greatest football player in the history of the game and been in awe just like I was the first time I saw him .
Rip Diego Rip Legend
My son's middle name is Diego .
For the younger guys on here us older grew up when we couldn't see much live football and to see Diego was a treat. 86 was for me the highest level any footballer has ever reached . He was unbelievable in winning Argentina the world cup and was the only reason they got to a final in 90.
He is like a god to so many people and he is that for me .
I'm heart broken tonight my little boy is 10 he's been crying since he came home from school. We will sit tonight like we have for so many years and watch the greatest football player in the history of the game and been in awe just like I was the first time I saw him .
Rip Diego Rip Legend
Greatest player I ever saw. RIP legend
In Argentina literally 99.9% of all football fans will pick Maradona without hesitation.
Son in law. Father to Maradona grandson.
60 years but man did he live.
The greatest player ever without a shadow of a doubt. R.I.P Diego. May the hand of God take care of you
Diego Maradona by Asif Kapadia.
Rest in Power Diego.
The game of football has 250 million players, and a estimated 3.5 billion fans.
In the past century, hundreds of millions more have played the game and billions of fans have seen the light of life and gone to sleep in the darkest night.
Diego Maradona is one of the biggest legends of a sport that has meant more to human society than any before or since.
Diego is one of Argentinas biggest sons, a legend of a generation and a hero of Naples.
Rest well, Maradona.
In the past century, hundreds of millions more have played the game and billions of fans have seen the light of life and gone to sleep in the darkest night.
Diego Maradona is one of the biggest legends of a sport that has meant more to human society than any before or since.
Diego is one of Argentinas biggest sons, a legend of a generation and a hero of Naples.
Rest well, Maradona.
RIP.
What an absolute legend and icon.
Favourite YouTube video is him doing a gloriously skilful and half arsed warm up
Unreal player.
What an absolute legend and icon.
Favourite YouTube video is him doing a gloriously skilful and half arsed warm up
Unreal player.
I wonder if they can now name the San Paolo after him?
There is to be three days of national mourning in Argentina. I can't think of another footballer who would be mourned so much by a country.
The hand of God in the hands of God. RIP. True Legend
RIP D10S
I've heard they are wondering about it. I think they will do it eventually and rightly so.
Rest In Peace, brother. For me, you are the GOAT. Pure genius. Dominated in a pretty gnarly era where you were the recipient of numerous fouls that would have been straight reds today.
Blows me away that two of the greats died on Nov 25. Best also had his demons. Hopefully those two are playing on a “heavenly” pitch together....
Blows me away that two of the greats died on Nov 25. Best also had his demons. Hopefully those two are playing on a “heavenly” pitch together....
In terms of football, he was the best of all time. I've seen multiple videos and goals of D10S and he would have ruled the '90s, '00s and '10s with ease. A mix of Zidane, Messi and Zola. He truly is the beginning of current football.
One of the few larger-than-life characters in football. He trascended the medium. He became a symbol, an icon, the hero of an entire country, for better or worse. Argentina has had few "alegrías" since the '70s, and the World Cup of 1986 is perhaps the most important cup ever won by a country. Not just sport, but existentialism.
He was no saint, he had multiple demons and he freely admitted it. He never wanted to be an example for anybody or a "white knight", like Pelé, but as I've said, he was and is an icon.
Fans of Napoli sure are suffering as well. Perhaps an even bigger hero there than in Buenos Aires (Maradona was deeply respected but not loved by River Plate fans, for example).
One of the few larger-than-life characters in football. He trascended the medium. He became a symbol, an icon, the hero of an entire country, for better or worse. Argentina has had few "alegrías" since the '70s, and the World Cup of 1986 is perhaps the most important cup ever won by a country. Not just sport, but existentialism.
He was no saint, he had multiple demons and he freely admitted it. He never wanted to be an example for anybody or a "white knight", like Pelé, but as I've said, he was and is an icon.
Fans of Napoli sure are suffering as well. Perhaps an even bigger hero there than in Buenos Aires (Maradona was deeply respected but not loved by River Plate fans, for example).
He lived to the max and he spent his 60 years well.
Maradona the player will always be considered a top 5 player and maybe the best of all time. He did things that were other worldly and created some many memories for the fans of the clubs he played for and his country.
I know some Brits are angry over what happened in 1986 but it was one moment, it could've happened to anyone. You win some and you lose some.
Outside of football he lived a crazy life, I imagine there was never a dull moment. Whether he had any regrets would be interesting but he'll be remembered for the good.
Maradona the player will always be considered a top 5 player and maybe the best of all time. He did things that were other worldly and created some many memories for the fans of the clubs he played for and his country.
I know some Brits are angry over what happened in 1986 but it was one moment, it could've happened to anyone. You win some and you lose some.
Outside of football he lived a crazy life, I imagine there was never a dull moment. Whether he had any regrets would be interesting but he'll be remembered for the good.
That's what Jack Wilshire imagines he's like in his mind.
Only one player can claim to have invoked every emotion humanly possible to experience whilst watching football. That was Diego Maradona. He embodied every reason we are addicted to turning on and watching week in, week out. And what a player.
RIP GOAT.
RIP GOAT.