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Emotion, pain and popular commotion at Diego Maradona's funeral: 'Daaaale, man, this looks like a wake'

2020-11-27T18:50:47.926Z


Scenes from the massive pilgrimage of people who queued more than 20 blocks to fire the best soccer player in history.


Mariano verrina

11/26/2020 12:48 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • sports

Updated 11/26/2020 12:48 PM

For the people what belongs to the people.

And Diego is from the town.

That is what is here, what happens here, what is breathed and perspires here.

What is suffered and enjoyed here.

Diego is from the town.

And the town is the one who is crossing the Pueyrredón Bridge on the motorcycle with the t-shirt of the day of the tribute game, the one of the day when he made popular catharsis and said he was wrong and paid.

Diego is from the town because the town is Jerónimo, who is 7 years old and has a letter in his right hand that he wrote yesterday and says that he thanks Diego for teaching him to play soccer.

Jerónimo was born when Diego had retired from soccer for more than 20 years.

Kyliam Mbappé, who changes his profile photo on Instagram for one of Diego, did not even see him lead

La Noche del Diez

, but he is also here, like every player who kicks a ball around the world.

Tears in Plaza de Mayo by Diego Armando Maradona.

Photo Juan Manuel Foglia.

Diego is from the town because he must be the guy who gave the most work in the middle of a pandemic.

Salami and cheese sandwiches are sold for 100 pesos, there are hats, flags, even chinstraps.

There is cold beer, there is water and soda, there are T-shirts with his face, his signature and his number.

"Diego, dear, the people are with you,"

explodes the crowd that parades down the runway.

It is a pilgrimage.

It's the court.

Yes, outside is the field that the coronavirus stopped.

There are searches, there are screams, there are police checkpoints, there are people who sneak in, there are a couple of raptors, there are drums and songs.

And suddenly, silence.

A shocking funnel.

It gives the chills.

It is not necessary to ask the fans for silence when the huge line is fraying and the entrance to the Casa Rosada bursts with that

giant crepe on

top.

Silence.

A person with Boca's shirt and in a wheelchair under a flag.

Photo Juan Manuel Foglia.

There are no pictures.

Nobody takes out the cell phone of daring, nobody plays the rogue.

An asterisk is worth here before so many journalistic blunders that violated Diego's privacy yesterday, today and always.

Not the town.

The people respected him.

They make the line that already arrives has no vanishing point.

They go on pilgrimage, they celebrate the life of the guy who is like them but hit it off and was the best in the town in the whole world.

And when they get to the funnel, they shut up, they take a deep breath.

Diego is from the town because cumbia sounds at the chori and paty stalls.

Because every so often Rodrigo appears to shout for Maradó, Maradó.

Diego managed to get many sons and daughters

to talk to their fathers and mothers again.

Diego achieved the viralized hugs between those of Boca and those of River.

The hug without cracks, River and Boca fans cry melted.

Photo EFE.

It is Diego who is in that coffin.

Yes, Diego died.

It is not necessary to draw it with biblical metaphors, although a witty kid in the crowd puts out a beautiful smile when in an emotional pothole he shouts forcefully:

"Daaaale, man, this looks like a wake

.

"

A genius.

He defined it better than all.

It looks like a wake.

But at the same time it looks like something else, it

looks like a party, a celebration

.

The pain of family, friends and relatives is immense.

That little round to see Diego for the last time is a Tyson pineapple.

"Diego did not die, Diego did not die, Diego lives in the town ...", sing the people who do not ask about schedules, environments, who are not there to differentiate between the person and the character, who do not care what the journalists say.

Until the last person who remembers him dies,

Diego will continue to beat

.

And the people, that sure never dies.

Look also

Alberto Fernández at Diego Maradona's wake: tears, the hug with Dalma and Giannina and the Argentinos shirt

Bella Vista Garden: where is it and what is the place where Diego Maradona is going to be buried

Source: clarin

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