What to write?
How to tell what Diego Armando Maradona has represented for so many people and at so many levels?
I do not know. I knew this day would come sooner or later.
God is Dead.
The Mano de Dios has stopped keeping time, stopped giving rhythm to our lives.
Some time ago some very young friends spoke to me with great peace of mind about how Maradona was a normal player and how CR7, Ibrahimovic, Rooney, Ronaldinho, Griezmann had won more, scored more and were therefore better.
Smiles.
How do you transmit what Maradona was?
How do you do it?
How do you make them feel those same emotions as you do while watching for the 100th time the VHS of his life, of his plays.
How can you transmit to them the sparkle in the eyes of friends and acquaintances who in the 80s went to the São Paulo stadium every Sunday to witness his miracles.
But how do you do it?
And how can you forget?
How can you not feel lonely tonight?
How can you relieve this immense pain, this feeling of sadness and emptiness?
A thousand contradictions in him but a face and a smile that have never made you feel bad.
Cocaine destroyed him but he never made any of us cry.
Except today.
Today he decided to stop that wonderful heart.
Maradona was delicious chaos.
It was extraordinary eternal movement.
Incorruptible.
Inexhaustible.
It is sad that today that same man is leaving in a moment of world loneliness, isolation, sadness and daily emptiness.
A man of the people as perhaps no longer exists, will not be able to be honored because of the pandemic.
What a sadness to say goodbye Diego.
How sad to know that you will no longer be friends with all of us.
Loved by fans, friends, colleagues, journalists but not by the powerful.
Those not.
Those have always opposed you.
And now without you one of the last Masaniello will be missing, one of the last heroes to whom we would have forgiven anything.
Damn you Diego!
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