El Diego Quotes

“a story while working for the BBC World Service when he was kicked out of the 1994 World Cup: several hundred people in Bangladesh had attempted mass suicide as a result. It is impossible to overestimate the scope and intensity of Maradona’s popularity, and the range of sometimes contradictory emotions he evokes. Nowhere more so than in Argentina, where his place in the collective national psyche is worthy of lengthy volumes of analysis. From god to political manoeuvre, from saint to machiavellian drug abuser, from villain to victim and back, every possible interpretation has been covered some-where along the line. Even in England Maradona stirs extreme reactions. Despite the bitter aftertaste left behind by his hand-ball in 1986, the general public continues to vote the second goal in the same match the best ever scored in a World Cup. When FIFA recently decided to name the best footballer ever they had to hand out two awards; one for officialdom's”
― D A Maradonna, Maradona: Soccer's Greatest and Most Controversial Star

“in 1995, resulted in my first cover story for a national glossy. Subsequently, being a Maradona ‘expert’ has awakened the interest of publications as far afield as Japan, Mexico, Israel and Holland. Once, a Dutchman told me he thought that second goal in 1986 was the only miracle of the twentieth century. He was dead serious. I remember researching”
― D A Maradonna, Maradona: Soccer's Greatest and Most Controversial Star

“Sometimes I think that my whole life is on film, that my whole life is in print. But it’s not like that. There are things which are only in my heart—that no one knows. At last I have decided to tell everything.” Diego Maradona”
― Diego Armando Maradona, El Diego: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Footballing Genius