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Death of Maradona: the vibrant tribute of the world press

2020-11-27T13:15:36.952Z


The disappearance of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona made the headlines of most dailies around the world.


From Argentina to England via Germany, Italy, Spain… This Thursday morning, all the international press welcomed the disappearance of Diego Maradona.

In France, the team titled “God is dead” by evoking “a life of all the devils” and the “immense exploits of a player come from the street and the weaknesses of a man attracted by darkness”.

Here is the one of the newspaper L'Équipe of this Thursday, November 26 pic.twitter.com/MVHFypDIIe

- THE TEAM (@lequipe) November 25, 2020

“CELESTE.

Maradona (1960-2020) ”title for its part Liberation, with Maradona, on the front page with the Albiceleste outfit, advancing with outstretched arms, a pennant in the right hand.

“On Wednesday, no intervention of God could help him.

Argentina has declared three days of national mourning, which seems petty to us, ”writes the daily.

On the front page of Libé this Thursday



Céleste


Maradona (1960-2020) pic.twitter.com/PC4lmdI4Oz

- Release (@libe) November 25, 2020

In 20 minutes, “Great God” appears on the front page with a photo showing the Argentinian juggling his head with the globe.

Maradona "was to football what Elvis Presley was to rock'n'roll, what Michael Jackson was to pop music or what Gérard Depardieu is at the cinema", writes Benoît Lasserre in Sud Ouest.

"Diego Maradona is dead, football is dead", supports So Foot magazine, highlighting a character full of paradoxes, whose "diabolical prowess has finally turned against him", "a popular and controversial icon, far from champions as it should be ”,“ an idol of the South, able at the same time to be friends with Castro and Chavez as it had been a time with Carlos Menem, the right-handed president of Argentina and to advertise for Coca-Cola ".

“Being a genius is no easy task.

"L'Humanité headlines" Adios companero.

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In Argentina, Diego Maradona was almost a God and the tributes are at the height of the love that a whole Nation had for him.

"Maradona is dead and the world is crying": the site of the Clarin newspaper announces three days of national mourning and delivers the smallest details, almost minute by minute, of the hours preceding the player's death, his last photo, the circumstances of his death, caused by a heart attack.

The daily evokes a "permanent roller coaster between its marvelous escalations and its brutal falls, (because) nobody had ever given Diego Maradona the rules of the game".

🗞️ "No habrá ninguno igual", tapa from @clarincom from este 26.11.2020 en recuerdo to Diego Maradona.

pic.twitter.com/THxumC9PIE

- Clarín (@clarincom) November 26, 2020

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“Thank you Diego”: on the La Nacion site with the tribute of the designers.

A simple soccer ball, sent from the sky, like a final wink, for the illustrator Tute.

Maradona, the last heavenly flight, with a design by Max Aguirre, which pays homage to the modest origins of the “pibe de oro”, of the “golden kid:“ The popular gods are always muddy, like all theirs ”.

In Italy, where Maradona left an indelible mark during his visit to Naples between 1984 and 1991, the Corriere della Sera salutes "the rebellious genius who made football more beautiful".

“AD10S” takes over Il Messaggero.

La Repubblica poses "Diego Maradona 1960-2020", with a photo of the 1986 World Cup immortalizing the Argentinian with his arms crossed.

“The calcio goes to paradise”: according to La Repubblica, the name of Maradona, “immense and unique player, practically a divinity”, would not even have to be mentioned, as it would be “obvious, superfluous”.

"It would be like saying who Ulysses was, who Dante Alighieri was, who was Jesus Christ our Lord, who was Einstein."

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La Gazzetta dello Sport dedicating its front page to the “death of the God of football”.

"Thank you", headlines Il Matino, "Farewell to Maradona the king of football".

Il Fatto Quotidiano evokes the “love story” between Napoli and the player, “this Midas king of football, (who) had achieved the feat of transforming the outskirts into a center”, the city of Naples into the capital of calcio , the Italian championship.

"A star", "a storm"

In Spain, ABC exhibits a giant photo of the champion a giant photo of the 1986 world champion on the day of the coronation in Mexico City with the title: "Diego".

This Maradona that all football lovers appropriated.

“D1OS ha muerto” (God is dead) presses As in a montage.

“AD1OS” for Mundo Deportivo.

“D10S is already in paradise” for Sport.

"Goodbye Maradona, legend of world football, god of the Argentines and icon of the 20th century", for La Vanguardia when Marca puts forward a sentence of the Argentinian strategist as epitaph: "If I die, I want to be reborn and I want to be a footballer .

And I want to be Diego Armando Maradona again.

I am a player who has given people joy.

It's enough for me.

"" A god of football.

The Argentine star has had a legendary career and a life of excess, ”recalls El Pais for his part.

The Catalan newspaper El Periodico writes “aDios”, “for God, goodbye forever”.

"The footballer who played, who will play to be God, to be number ten": in homage to the player, whom he compares both to "a star" and to "a storm", Ara, another daily Catalan, launches “Idolized for his football and punished for his sins, Maradona died at the age of 60”.

The English press has not forgotten, 34 years later, “the Hand of God” but welcomes, like The Daily Mirror, the “great” Maradona, now “in the hands of God”.

The Independent recalls, him, the "imperfect Genius".

"Millions of people mourn the death of Maradona", underlines the Times in the front page under a photo of Diego Maradona "the Argentine genius considered by many to be the greatest player of all time" perched on shoulders proudly brandishing the World Cup in 1986. In the United States, "Football pays tribute to the brilliant Argentinian who died at the age of 60," writes the Financial Times.

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