Following the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, tributes follow one another in the media.
The famous player has always had a special relationship with the media, especially in relation to his immense notoriety.
This is explained by the editorial director of the Team, Jérôme Cazadieu, at the microphone of Europe 1. The sports daily devotes twenty pages to him on Thursday.
The tributes follow one another since the announcement of the disappearance of Diego Maradona, Wednesday, at the age of 60 years.
The media devoted special programs to this football legend in the evening, but also long files this morning in the newspapers.
This is the case of the sports daily
L'Équipe,
which dedicates no less than twenty pages to the famous Argentinian player this Thursday morning.
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For the editorial director of this title, Jérôme Cazadieu, Diego Maradona fascinated the media on the ground, but also outside.
"It is the beginning of sportsmen, in any case footballers who have a somewhat rockstar life. At that time," the immersion of the media, especially the Spanish media, had pushed Maradona to start having a share of paranoia.
Obviously, there are plenty of facts in his career, which will fuel a form of mistrust and fascination for the media, "he says.
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Maradona on the big screen
Diego Maradona has been the subject of several documentaries, starting with an eponymous film, directed by Asif Kapadia, to whom we also owe
Amy,
on Amy Winehouse and
Senna
, a biopic on pilot Ayrton Senna.
Two years ago, the player agreed to shoot a documentary series, Maradona in Mexico when he left to coach a Mexican Ligue 2 team.
Finally, there is also Maradona by Kusturica, shot between 2005 and 2007, where the player meets singer Manu Chao on an Argentinian street corner.
It is to this film that we owe the song
Si yo fuera Maradona
, in French,
If I was Maradona
.
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Maradona, it's songs, movies, but also cries of happiness especially those of sports commentators as for example in 1986 when he won the World Cup his selection.
The death of this player is all the more painful in his country of origin.
Argentina has declared three days of national mourning.