Maradona dance party
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- maquito1
Quite a bump.. just posted a dull name on East Clintwood’s thread of him, and also bumped across a memory of my dad (huge fan of Montevideo’s Peñarol), who who had the pleasure and opportunity to watch Diego Maradona play several times in Montevideo and Buenos Aires —he told me many times that he even drove to Buenos Aires from Montevideo many times just to watch him play in the former “La Atlética” at General Mitre (nowadays “Estadio Diego Maradona”), and of course in La Bombonera.
I’m not a big soccer fan, but my dad is part of the generation of “Carboneros”: very, intensely, Peñarol fans. He saw Peñarol winning a world cup in the early 80’s.
Anyways... back with Maradona; myself being a pretty lame soccer fan, growing up listening to my dad’s soccers stories, I can only say that for my old folk, Diego Maradona was just a living miracle. Dad often repeats “it was like if he had hands on his feet”.
It’s weird, after having seen my dad watch and follow dozens of other soccer “promises”, to hear him state firmly, that there’s been no one like Maradona ever again since 1980. That’s 40 years.
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Tl/dr: maradona is king.
- Your dad was right. Maradona was before my time, but we studied his tape extensively. He played a beautiful game.garbage