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Doña Tota, la madre de Maradona
Giving birth to Jesus wasn’t easy. Only a woman could do it. Giving birth to a little Che Guevara wasn’t easy either. Only a woman could. Giving birth to Diego Armando Maradona, a more than outrageously talented footballer and around 1986 one of the most famous people on the planet, wasn’t going to be easy either; not in the least. Continue reading
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“Scumbag” Maradona and the Blackberry Bruiser
Maradona, despite being in his dream job with a tasty enough team just a month before the World Cup, finds himself in a strangely weakened position. Gone is the rancourous, vituperative Diego of Uruguay gone the scorn king, the prince of put-downs. Enter Mr Maradona, august professional, driven to the pen as his peers’ lapdogs plot against him! Continue reading
“I’m happy [Maradona]‘s manager, but I warn you, if you even go near my dad, i’ll bloody well crush you.”
This time, more conscious of his position now and trying to maintain some kind of dignity (is that magnificent beard an attempt at portraying a more statesmanlike image?) Diego tried to play politics; while Humbertito had the freedom to snap at him with absolute impunity and even put him down with a vertitable frase maradoniana: “He gets bitten by a mosquito and he thinks it’s Grondona’s fault. [....] If you even go near my dad, i’ll bloody well crush you.” Continue reading
