(By Valérie Segond in Rome)
Disbelief in Naples at the death of the one who, according to
Il Corriere della Sera
had by his game during the seven years spent in the Napoli team, taken with him all the deprived.
“So don't believe this absurd news.
We await his return, more rebellious and honest than ever.
Love, you know, doesn't die. ”
The city that treated him like a deity, worshiping him more than its fifty-two patron saints.
In Naples where the tifosi from all over the city gathered last night in the small square of the Spanish Quarter in front of the fresco by Maradona.
They lit votive candles, sang songs to his glory when he wore the Napoli jersey.
In the bar in the square, a projector scrolls through its goals.
Has a balcony, the first jersey of Maradona number 10. For Naples, who lived seven years of dreams thanks to him, it is a real mourning, proclaimed by its mayor, Luigi De Magistris who announced to name the stadium San Paolo Diego Armando Maradonna.
And tweeted: “Diego made our people dream, he bought Naples with his genius.
In 2017, he became our honorary citizen.
Diego, Neapolitan and Argentinian, you have given us joy and happiness!
Naples loves you! ”
"Maradona did with the ball what Fellini did with the images"
Tributes to Maradona in pictures
In images, in pictures
But it is not only Naples, which mourns the one who, arrested in Naples for consuming coke, once said to the judge: "I wanted to make millions of people happy."
All of Italy pays homage to him as the character counted.
All the Unes are dedicated to him: “Ciao Diego” is the title
La Stampa
.
ADIOS, with the 10 of his jersey, title
Il Messaggero
.
“Football goes to heaven,” says
La Repubblica
.
With each time, 8 to 10 pages on the brilliant footballer, and his dark side: “What he did, with his head and his feet, was impossible, writes the former mayor of Rome Walter Vetroni in
La Stampa
.
But it was real.
In his way of playing the ball, there was not only a masterful flair but also the pride of a people, the total freedom of creation, the unruly talent of geniuses.
Maradona did with the ball what Fellini did with the pictures.
His way of playing football was dreamlike and close to the circus.
Like his way of life, he was both creation and self-destruction. ”
He was "as whimsical as a capricious child and as wise as a blind poet."
It was a festival of contradictions and that made him, from the start, a living legend. ”
No newspaper fails to recount his relationship with the Giuliano brothers of the mafia in Naples, his immoderate taste of the holidays, his consumption without measure of alcohol and coke.
The journey "from his hut without water in Argentina to the luxurious villas had not rid him of the mud, it had not taken away the desire to binge, dance, party, enjoy everything that was illegal, ”writes La Repubblica.
Which sums it up: "He was a God, not a saint."
“He played as number 10 of all the underprivileged.
He fought for all those who have no place in the world ”
For
La Repubblica
, he is one of the great rebel characters, “the different, the revolutionaries, the bad: Mishima, Best, Castro, and now Diego.
He played as number 10 of all the underprivileged.
He fought for all those who have no place in the world.
For the underestimated, for the suburbs. "
“He was a god, not a saint.
He was wrong, he couldn't find peace, but he converted you.
You may not have become his disciple, but the applause finally won out.
Because he was always ready to start wars: against those in command, against those in high places, against the powerful.
No one silenced Maradona.
Because you had to break it to stop it. ”
In his very last interview, on his 60th birthday, a month ago, he said: “I have been and still am very happy.
Football has given me everything I have, more than I could imagine.
And if I hadn't had this addiction, I could have played a lot more. "
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