“Maradona, he is not just any person”, he sang in the year Andres Calamaro. The Argentine musician forgave all the sins of the football god and evoked, through this song, why the footballer has generated so much passion among football fans, but also among artists from around the world. “A man glued to the ball,” said Calamaro.
There is another football anthem about Maradona: Kid’s dream of La Beriso. The rock band, The Lice, composed Marado in the nineties. Essential song of Argentine music. “Shining ball falls from the sky / all the people and everyone watches, a round rematch on his foot.” Black Hand, the French group led by Manu Chao, He also surrendered to Maradona, with whom the Spanish-French singer also shares a political ideology. Santa Maradona It is the song in which they pay tribute to him. Manu Chao also composed the final song for one of the best documentaries about the soccer player. The song, titled Life is a tombolaIt read like this: “If I were Maradona, I would appear on Mondovision, to shout at FIFA, that they are the great thief!”
The Argentine musician Charly garcia He dedicated a blues to Maradona: “I don’t know what drug he harangues you more than I do, but this rain didn’t pass … I’m crying here for you.” And the Artentino group Bersuit, which became famous for mixing rock with traditional Argentine music, such as cumbia, sang to the star in The dance of the dribble.
Argentine music has not been the only one that has tried to speak of Maradona through art. The cinema has also told the story of this fallen idol, one of the best players in history and one of the most significant personalities. Born in a poor neighborhood, he became a big star. The last portrait is Asif Kapadia, who had already shown the rise and fall of another myth, Amy Winehouse, and what she does in Diego Maradona, a film that went through the very Cannes Festival, is to tell the effects and consequences of mythomania.
The political image of Maradona stands out in this cinematographic portrait. Especially when the footballer arrives at Naples, southern Italy. Those leagues at the end of the eighties represented poor Italy that turned the rich on, thanks to the Argentine genius. Kapadia does not hide the athlete’s relationship with cocaine or with Carmine Giuliano, from Camorra. One of the strongest images of Diego Maradona is to see the face of circumstances at the Naples Christmas party in 1990, just when he had left the Italian team out of the World Cup in the San Paolo state of Naples.
Before Kapadia, Emir Kusturica, a prestigious filmmaker on the auteur cinema circuits, premiered at Maradona by Kusturica, a portrait of the footballer from the perspective of the Sarajevo filmmaker. He is about to explain what Maradona represents for the world and the man behind that representation, for this he recounts events in his life, such as his childhood in Villa Florito, his career as a player, the best goal in history and his problems with drugs. The film also included his political militancy with characters such as Fidel Castro, Evo Morales or Hugo Chávez.
What do a boy playing on a street in Villa Fiorito and the owner of a canteen in Naples have in common? What do 500 people celebrating Christmas on October 30 and 25 soccer fans showing off their tattoos have in common? Everyone is loving Maradona. so it begins Loving Maradona, a 2005 film directed by Javier Vázquez in which Maradona himself reflects on his life and in which fans from all over the world tell their anecdotes.
Maradona will be remembered as the hand of God, something that the cinema reflected, precisely in Maradona, the hand of God, an Italian and Argentine co-production in which he portrays the life of the footballer, but also that historical moment, which he marked with his hand in a match between Argentina and the England team. It was 1986, four years after the Falklands War.
There is even a movie that talks about his meeting with another emblem of Argentine culture, Carlos Gardel, it is called The Day Maradona Met Gardel, by Rodolfo Pagliere. And, as we can see, dozens of documentaries, fiction films, series and telephones have been made where the figure and importance of Diego Maradona are discussed. He is a tragic and comic character at the same time. He himself knew his worth as a communicator and spent some time presenting television programs in his country.
It doesn’t have a release date yet, but Amazon Prime Video has already released the first images of ‘Maradona: Blessed Dream’, the series about the life of the Argentine soccer player, a biographical series that has been authorized by the protagonist himself. Three different actors to play this charismatic figure in a series with controversy, since the script was leaked, with dialogues that spoke of his death:
Read this dialogue between the actress who plays Villafañe, his ex-wife, and the actor who plays the representative, she speculates: “If he dies, half the world will come to claim his part of the inheritance. I will not be the boluda from the movie, you know? I will not allow my daughters to end up on the street because Diego lived surrounded by parasites. The girls are going to spend their lives living off notes talking about the drug addict father. “Tremendous.
And if Amazon has its series, Netflix it was not going to be less. Maradona in Sinaloa It is a co-production of seven episodes. The argument: El Dorados, the Culiacán soccer team, is at the bottom of the table. Diego Maradona comes to him in search of a new beginning, but experts foresee a disaster.
The tribute of ‘La Ventana’ to Maradona after knowing his death. / CHAIN SER
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