11/25/2020 19:04
Clarín.com
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Updated 11/25/2020 19:04
The death of Diego Armando Maradona at the age of 60 resounded in all corners of the world, but where it struck the most was in those who knew him.
Relatives, colleagues and journalists who followed him throughout his career as a player and coach.
Such was the case with Horacio Pagani, one of the pioneering journalists when it came to interviewing the best player in the world.
With the news of the death still fresh, the journalist went out to speak with his teammates
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very shocked.
"Argentine soccer has just died. Soccer. Not Argentine soccer," he said through tears.
"
Football died
and I feel an incomparable pain. Diego was playing, 20 years ago he was playing on the edge. But it seemed, truly, we believed that he was immortal," he continued.
Horacio Pagani and Diego Maradona.
Photo Clarín Archive.
Later he analyzed that when the Punta del Este episode happened in 2000 (he was hospitalized and complicated for two weeks) "everyone believed that a human being could not survive that," he defined.
"So even I thought it was impossible for him to ever leave because he was going around for 20 years and got ahead in the same way as when he played ball."
"He was getting on with his crazy life. One thought he always went out, but it's exactly as if football died," he reiterated and burst into tears.
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