Too much pain, too many people, too much everything. Argentina under shock and with the corazon sufrido, the heart that suffers, so much so that the funeral of Diego Maradona they should be held tonight and not Saturday, at the express request of the family, but also of the government and the police, who have to face a wave of men and impressive, uncontrollable emotion. And now also of attacks and controversies, as perhaps inevitable when it comes to Diego. The first accusations have been made by her lawyer, Matias Morla, who is asking for an investigation because it is inexplicable that for 12 hours he did not have attention or checks by the health personnel and it defines a criminal idiocy that the ambulance took half an hour to reach the house where Maradona had gone to live to begin rehabilitation.
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The vigil at the government building in the center of Buenos Aires it will last until 4pm local time, 8pm Italian time. But already in these hours the situation has gone mad, the police in front of the Casa Rosada no longer know how to keep people in line for hours. As it was basically predictable, imaginable, natural.You can’t help but cry, Argentina. As for Evita, as for Carlos Gardel, as for Ernesto Guevara, even if at Che, who was from Rosario, the Argentines basically never forgave for having made the revolution far from his land. Not like Diego, who gave everything for his people, in his eternal holy war against everything that was imposition, oppression, imperialism.
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Today, when you go out on the field, remember that you are playing not only for you, but for your brothers, your cousins, your friends who died killed in the Malvinas was the creepy speech to the teammates before that legendary match with England in 1986 that a piece of the life of all of us, not just the Argentines. This was it, Diego. Excessive and wrong as much as you want. But certainly for the Argentines a hero of the people, a people leader, a father of the country, because his was not just football, it was the grito sacrado, the sacred cry of libertad libertad libertad who shouted in the face of the world that night at ‘Olimpico in the 1990 final, when the hymn was whistled, which for an Argentine is like insulting your mother.
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The last and only time that the Casa Rosada had hosted a funeral home for a sportsman was in 1995 for the driver Juan Manuel Fangio. Those who know for the mystique that makes the Argentines a unique people because they are incomprehensible and incomprehensible because they are unique, as Osvaldo Soriano wrote, knows that the only comparison that holds that with Evita Peron, whose funeral in 1952 was attended by millions of people. Same humble origins, she and Diego, same popular anger, same social revenge, same sense of the people, same talent for the word to effect, for the provocation, for the theatrical gesture. And for leaving the scene.
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The death of Diego Armando Maradona
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November 26, 2020 (change November 26, 2020 | 15:02)
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