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Maradona, mirror of Latin America

2020-11-27T18:16:44.665Z

The Argentine represented like few others that extreme bipolarism of the land from which he cameImage of the Casa Rosada during Diego Armando Maradona's wake, this Thursday, DPA via Europa Press / Europa Press It would be crazy or improvident to think that soccer is just the story of how two teams try to score a goal. Soccer is politics, soccer is humanity. And no player like Diego Armando Maradona was able to condense both elements in his person, with all their contradictions ... Sign in

Image of the Casa Rosada during Diego Armando Maradona's wake, this Thursday, DPA via Europa Press / Europa Press

It would be crazy or improvident to think that soccer is just the story of how two teams try to score a goal.

Soccer is politics, soccer is humanity.

And no player like Diego Armando Maradona was able to condense both elements in his person, with all their contradictions ...

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