Maradona turns 60: drug sniffing nose, 'hand of God' and Bolivarian broken toy

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The gods of old were wild, arbitrary, and capricious.

When they came down to earth they could rape, practice incest or get drunk without rest ... Everything that was prohibited for mortals, who perhaps worshiped them for that very reason.

The Maradonian Church has half a million faithful spread all over the world who worship

as a divinity, capable of driving humans crazy for his dominance of football and who is allowed (and forgives) one of the existences more absurd and full of excesses that are remembered.

Something unattainable for the rest not even in a thousand lives.

The Church celebrates the next day 30 the entry into the year 60 d.

D. (after Diego).

The former Argentine star then reaches six decades of life and this would already be a miracle to record in the 'sacred writings' about D10S ('tetragrammaton' formed with his dorsal, the 10th), since

"I don't care what trouble / Maradona gets into. / He's my friend / and he's a great person, the 10th,"

sang

in 1999 as a summary of the sentiment of adoration of Diego Armando.

More mundane, his physical trainer, Fernando Signorini, described him like this: "Diego is a wonderful kid. Maradona was the character who had to be invented.

Diego left Villa Fiorito, one of the

.

He was the fifth of eight children and there was no running water in his house.

Short and smart, he found his way out of poverty in the ball.

He did it so well that the technical staff of Argentinos Juniors, the team in which he began to play as a youth, thought he was an adult with dwarfism posing as an 11-year-old boy.

After a season at Boca Juniors, where he won a league, in 1982 he became the most expensive signing in world football, when he moved to

.

In the Catalan capital he spent two discreet seasons.

The most important thing he did there, according to his own testimony, was to

In 1984, when he began to take a liking to the night - "no matter how much they say, I'm not going to stop going out", he released to the directive of the Blaugrana club - he made a surprising decision and signed for Napoli, the team of the that it was possibly the poorest city in Europe.

The Tyrrhenian metropolis had never achieved a great title of 'calcium' and the 'tifosi' of the great rich teams of the north (Inter, Juventus, Milan) despised them with their chants and banners: "Wash yourself", "Vesuvio, wash them with fire "and, above all,

From one mud to another mud

Maradona immediately connected with the feelings of those poor people, despised by those who had much more than them.

According to the journalist Ernesto Cherquis Bialo, "Maradona learned as a boy that to get out of the marginal mud, the lumpen, he had to kill himself."

And he did so: in the seven years he was in Naples, he won two leagues, a UEFA Cup and a World Cup with Argentina,

, which remained for the history of the game against England: a kind of revenge for the War of the Falklands where the fluff scored two historic goals, one with his hand (the "hand of God") and another in an unstoppable slalom that is considered the best goal in the history of the World Cups.

The image he left after that game,

The Neapolitan camorra soon noticed him and his weaknesses.

Claudia Villafañe, his girlfriend since he was 15 years old, mother of his two daughters and Maradona's "great love", in his words, defined his magnetism well: "He was 'fachero' [very handsome], super affectionate, super intelligent and danced I'm fine with any kind of music. "

He was continually awarded romances with other women.

"He was in love with Claudia but

" snorted Maradona in the documentary about his life directed by Asif Kapadia (known for the biographical film of Amy Winehouse) released last year.

Maradona impregnated a young Italian woman, but denied the paternity of the child, although he would end up recognizing it later.

Meanwhile, his relationship with the Giuliano de Forcella 'family' meant that they provided him with cocaine and women.

"The problem is that once you trust the Camorra, you become their property," Villafañe would later complain.

He began to take a routine after Sunday's games: "Claudia would stay with the girls, I would go out for a drink with my friends and there

drink

."

The 1990 World Cup in Italy marked a turning point in his life.

The semifinals faced the host team, the great favorite, with Argentina, precisely at the Naples stadium.

Maradona asked the Neapolitans to cheer him on, and Italy was eliminated.

Then the 'kid' became a demon.

"The most hated character in Italy", he titled 'La Repubblica'.

The final, in which Germany defeated the Albicelestes, left another historical image: the Olympic Stadium in Rome whistling the Argentine anthem, while Diego does not stop repeating something that is not heard, but that can be clearly read on his lips:

Then came the arrests with drugs, the sanctions, the passage through Sevilla FC and the progressive deterioration by the 'farlopa', who at one point stopped snorting and started to inject.

He fired shotguns (pellets) at journalists, FIFA kicked him out of the 1994 US World Cup for 'doping' and was the image of the 2002 Sónar festival. The penultimate image:

before the journalist Daniel Hadad and fresh out of the detox clinic: "I'm losing because of KO. I'm in a pigsty, but I have to be thankful, because I am alive for that pigsty."

The definitive cure would come after a stay in the Cuba of

(he has a Che Guevara tattoo on his arm) and who aligned him with the Bolivarian front of Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales.

Already 'cured', he became a coach of the Argentine national team, although he continued to do his things above good and evil.

The last image is from 2009, on the occasion of the qualification for the World Cup in South Africa.

Maradona looked at the press and released: "To those who did not believe,

. I am either white or black. I am not going to be gray in my life. You treated me how they treated me: keep sucking ".

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