:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/6HF2MUJMU5BOFHRR7A5GB7WKMA.jpg "The unpublished video of Diego Maradona in New York that was all the rage among fans")
The death of Diego Maradona On November 25, it redefined every second of film material or every little-seen image, or that had never been widely disseminated. This happened, for example, with the video shared by the Twitter user @pedromsantoro, who has been sharing fragments of the life of the Ten. The unpublished material shows Pelusa, in his stage of Barcelona, walking through NY like just another tourist, with practically no fans around him, something unthinkable in another country.
With the song Stayin ‘Alive, by Bee Gees, in the filming you can see a young Maradona, with his characteristic mane full of curlers and even traces of acne. Of course, the Blaugrana excursion took place in mid-1984, with a Diego who had not turned 24. Walk the streets, ride in a taxi, look at windows (a T-shirt in the shop windows reads “84”, the year of the visit).
The then brand new captain of the Argentine team (by choice of Carlos Salvador Bilardo, the technical director who replaced César Luis Menotti after the 1982 World Cup in Spain) is seen smiling, loose, released. The little anchorage of soccer in the United States of the 80 allowed him to be anonymous in the Big Apple. He barely takes a photo of what appears to be a production for a publication and signs an autograph.
Gray vest, white shirt underneath, blue cap, long pants, the image of that Maradona was all the rage on social networks. He was on the threshold of moving to Napoli, where he became a legend. On the tour of the United States, in which Barcelona faced Cosmos and Fluminense, and to which some invited players were, such as the mythical Mágico González (whom Fluff admired), finished rounding out his decision to leave.
And in Naples, at the same time, he would begin his best stage as a footballer and the most suffocating on a personal level, for the extreme love of the fans. Last Thursday, in the tribute that FIFA paid him during the The Best awards ceremony, the dutch Ruud Gullit He told an anecdote that details how Maradona lived the siege of the fans.
“It was sad inside because he could not go out to the street, or to the stores. Sometimes he would get away in the car, go to Rome and come back just to escape. I had no privacy for him. In those moments I felt bad for him, ”said the former Milan.
So in New York, free, it seemed comfortable. His relationship with the United States was severed ten years after the video, when he tested positive for the antidoping control in the 1994 World Cup. In 2018 he tried to get the visa again, even his lawyer Matías Morla started the procedures, but the attempt cooled down afterwards. of Diego making statements against President Donald Trump.
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